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Manors of Suffolk 



Notes 



Their History and Devolution 



The Hundreds of Blything and Bosmere and Claydon 

With some Illustrations of the Old Manor Houses 

BY 

W. A. (JOPINGER, M.A.. LL.D., F.S.A., F.R.S.A. 

Of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-law, Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Law in the 

Victoria University of Manchester, Sometime President of the Bibliographical Society, Author of 

"County of Suffolk : Its History as Disclosed by Existing Records," &c. 



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I HIS Hundred, which derives its name from the river Blythe — 
the Saxon Bhde (signifying the swift or strong) — is 
the largest Hundred in Suffolk, and contains 87,941 
acres. It lies on the east side of the county, extending 
nearly 20 miles along the sea coast, and having its two 
other sides nearly of the same length, projecting westward 
and forming an irregular triangle bounded on the south 
by Plomesgate Hundred, on the west by Hoxne Hundred, on the north 
by Wangford and Mutford Hundreds, and on the east by the ocean. 

It is in Blything Union, in the Deanery of Dunwich, Archdeaconry 
of Suffolk, and Diocese of Norwich. It is watered by the river Blythe, and 
many smaller streams, flowing eastward to the sea, and some of them 
forming "broads," or small lakes near the coast, which rises in many places 
in bold precipitous chffs. The western parts form a high district of hill and 
dale and have a strong and fertile loamy soil, but on the eastern side, near 
the sea, a light sand prevails, and there are still some unenclosed sheep- 
walks. 

The fee was in the Crown and government in the Sheriff until the time 
of King Edw. I., who in consideration of the reversion of the Castle of 
Warkworth and the Manors of Rouberrie, Newburn, and Carbridge, entailed 
upon him and his heirs by John de Clavering, settled upon him, amongst 
other things, this Hundred to hold of the King for hfe. At the decease of 
John de Clavering the Hundred reverted to the Crown. It was, however, 
settled by Hen. VIII. on Hugh ap Howel by deed dated 3rd Dec. 1527, but 
the grants extended only to the goods and chattels of felons, &c., fines, 
waifs, and strays. Again reverting to the Crown it was granted to Sir 
Edward Coke 31st Jan. 1601, he acquiring through Thomas Billott and 
Richard Langley, to whom it had been conveyed the previous day. 

Though the grant is made to Sir Edward in fee simple, to hold of the 
Queen as of the Manor of Greenwich, it was not more extensive than the 
grant of Hen. VIII. The Hundred was later conveyed with other heredita- 
ments to Sir Joshua Vanneck of Putney, Bart., by deed dated 25th March, 
1752, and made between the Right Hon. Thomas Earl of Leicester, and the 
Right Hon. Edward Coke, Esq., commonly called Lord Viscount Coke, 
only son of the said Earl of Leicester of the one part, and Sir Joshua Vanneck 
of the other part. Sir Joshua devised the Hundred to his son Sir Gerard 
William Vanneck, who devised the same to his brother Joshua Vanneck, 
afterwards created Lord Huntingfield, who died 15th Aug. 1816, and was 
succeeded by his son Joshua, Lord Huntingfield, who died in August, 1844, 
the Hundred passing in the same course as the Manor of Heveningham 
Hall to the present Lord Huntingfield. 

The Hundred is divided into 47 parishes and 8 hamlets, comprised in 
108 manors as follows : — 



THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 



Parishes. 



Aldringham 
Benacre 



Blythburgh 

Blythford . . 

Bramfield . . 

Brampton . . 
[Bulchamp] 

Hamlet. 

[Buxlow] . . 

Not now a parish 

Chediston . 



Cookley 
Covehithe . . 

Cove (South) 
Cratfield 
Darsham . 



Dunwich 
Easton 

Bavent 
[Fordley] . . 

Joined with Mid- 

dleton. 
(See Middleton.) 

Frost en den 



Manors. 



Aldringham. 
Benacre. 
Blythburgh. 
Blythburgh late 

Priory. 
Hinton late Priory. 
Westwood. 
Blythford. 

Bramfield 
Brook Hall. 
Brampton. 
Hales Hall. 
Bulchamp. 

Buxlow 

Manor of Bavents al. 

Norton Bavents. 
Manor of Wrights al. 

Glemham's. 
Manor of Ho veil's. 

Cookley. 

Cookley Grange. 

Rughagh 

Covehithe or Northales 

North Ales called Oul 

stede. 
South Cove with 

North Hales. 
Polfrey or Blueflory 

Cove, anciently 

Gunnildshawe. 
Cratfield. 

Cratfield Le Roos. 
Darsham cum Yox- 

ford. 
Abbots. 
Austin's. 
Gerrard's. 
Manor of the Temple. 

] Easton Bavent. 



( Frostenden. 
Manor of Coldhani. 
King's. 



Parishes. 



Plalesworth 



[Henham] 

Hamlet. 



Henstead 



Hevening- 
ham 

Holton 



Huntingfield 

Knoddishall 
Knottis- 
hall 

Leiston 

Linstead 
Magna 

Linstead 
Parva 

[Mells] 

Hamlet. 



Middleton . 
Peasenhall. 

Re y don 

Rumburgh 
Sibton 
[Sizewell]. . 

Hamlet. 

Sotherton . 



Manors. 



Halesworth. 
Dame Margery's 

Manors. 
The Rectory. 
Henham. 
Craven's. 
Henstead, Perpounds 

al. Poynings. 
Blundeston, Savage's, 

and Hensteads. 
Heveningham. 
Burton Haugh. 
Blaunchards. 
Holton or Holton 

Hall. 
Huntingfield. 
Newhawe or Newhall. 
The Rectory. 

Knottishall. 

Leiston. 

Bade Hall or Wade 
Hall. 

Linstead Magna. 
Linstead Parva. 



Mells. 

Middleton with Ford- 
ley. 
Chickering. 
Austin's. 
Brent fen. 
Peasenhall. 
Jurdis. 
Falesham Hall. 

Reydon. 

Reydon BleviHs. 
Reydon Wingfield. 
Reydon Ugghall. 

Rumburgh. 
Sibton, Nvith its mem- 
bers. 
Sibton Hall. 



Sotherton. 



BLYTHING HUNDRED. 



Parishes. 



Southwold. . 



Spexhall . 



Stoven 
Theberton. . 



Thorington 



[Thorpe] 

Hamlet. 

Ubbeston ' , 
Uggeshall . 
Walberswick 

Walpole .... 

Wangford . . 

Wenhaston 

Westhall .. 



Manors. 



Southwold. 

Spexhall . 
Banyards. 
Burghard's. 
Rivet. 

Stoven. 
Theberton. 

' Thorington, or Thor- 
ington Wimples 
with Wenhaston al. 
Wimples Ufford al. 
Westons. 
Thorington Hall al. 
Sowters. 

Thorpe. 

Ubbeston. 
Uggeshall. 
Walberswick. 

Walpole. 
Chickering. 

Wangford. 

Wenhaston. 
Wenhaston Grange. 

Westhall Hall. 
Empole's. 
Barrington's. 
, Bacon's al. Wingfield. 



Parishes. 



Westleton , 



[Westwood] 

Hamlet, 



Wissett 



\^'rentham 



Yoxford 



Manors. 



Westleton with the 

members. 
Westleton Grange. 
Minsmere or Scot's 

Hall. 
Lenwale's or Lem- 

balde's or Lym- 

bold's. 
Claydon's. 
Westleton, Cleeve's or 

Cliff's, Hernethorne. 
Valeins. 
Rysing's. 

Wissett. 

Wisset, now called 

Wisset and Le Roos. 
Blenche's. 
Wrentham, Perpounds 

al. South Hall. 
Wrentham, Northall, 

or Poinings. 
Yoxford, since called 

Yoxford with the 

members. 
Cockfield Hall, now 

one of the members 

of Yoxford. 
Murrills,now one of the 
members of Yoxford, 
Stikingland. 



THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 



ALDRINGHAM. 




I HE only entry in the Survey under this head is to be found 
amongst the entries belonging to Hoxne Hundred. There 
was no manor here, and but two estates mentioned. One 
consisted of 7 villeins and a bordar having 90 acres. This 
was included in the valuation of Leiston. The soc belonged 
to the Bishop in Hoxne, and the Domesday tenant was 
Robert Malet. The other holding consisted of 20 acres 
and half a ploughteam, valued at 40^., formerly in the possession of a free- 
man by commendation and by fold, soc, and sac, and other services, and at 
the time of the Survey belonged to Robert Malet.' 

ALDRINGHAM MANOR. 

Aldringham Manor was the lordship of Ranulph de Glanville, Lord 
Chief Justice in 1180. It seems to have passed to William de Glanville 
his son and from him to his son Gilbert, who died in 1266. Gilbert 
was succeeded by his son Sir Ralph de Glanville, who left an only 
daughter Maud, married to Sir William de Vescy who is said to have 
been created Earl of Suffolk in 1326 in right of his wife. Sir WilHam de 
Vescy had an only daughter Sarah, who married Robert de Ufford, younger 
son of John de Peyton. Their son Robert de Uiford was summoned to 
Parliament as a baron 13th Jan. 1308. He was succeeded by another 
Robert de Ufford, K.G., who i6th March, 1336, was created Earl of Suffolk.' 

Robert the 2nd was succeeded by his 2nd son William Earl of Suffolk. 
A fine was levied of the manor between him and WilUam Lord Huntingfield 
by which it was settled on the Earl for life with remainder after the death of 
WiUiam Lord Huntingfield to the sons of the Earl successively — Thomas, 
William, and Edward, all of whom died without issue. The manor after- 
wards passed to the De la Poles, and on the attainder of Edmund de la 
Pole, who was beheaded in 1513, went to the Crown. 

There does not seem subsequently to have been any grant of the 
manor, but by Letters Patent 5th Aug. 1618, King James L granted to 
George, Marquis and Earl of Buckingham, the rectory of Aldringham and 
Thorpe, with all tithes thereunto belonging, late parcel of the possessions 
of Charles, Duke of Suffolk. In 1626, by Indenture dated 15th Nov. 
George, Duke of Buckingham, sold the above premises to Price Williams 
and Anthony Nevill, and 27th Jan. 1629, these parties with Richard Miller 
and Alice his wife re-sold them to Daniel EUab and Matthew Harvey, with 
a proviso making void the grant upon payment of £500. On the 20th 
May, 1640, Sir Richard Miller released and confirmed the said premises to 
the said Daniel Eliab and Michael Harvey and their heirs for ever. The 
heirs of these gentlemen held them in the early part of the following century ; 
and in 1792 they were the property of Sir Joshua Vanneck, Bart. He seems 
also to have held the manor, which subsequently descended to Joshua 
Charles Vanneck, 4th Baron Huntingfield of Heveningham Hall, the present 
lord, in the same course as the Manor of Heveningham Hall in this 
Hundred. 

From an actual survey in possession of Lord Huntingfield, made in 
1818, the total number of acres in Aldringham was 588a. 2r. igp., of which 
507a. ir. 29p. were enclosed land and 8ia. or. 3op. heath. 

' Dom. ii. 317. ' See Parham Hall Manor in Plomesgate Hundred. 



BENACRE MANOR. 




BEN AC RE MANOR. 

HE only entry in Domesday Survey of this place is that a 
socman held lo acres valued at i6d. under the Abbot of 
Bury.' The principal estate in Benacre was however 
possessed in the eleventh century by Godefridus de Petro 
Ponti or Pierrepont, the same knight who held Henstead 
under WilHam de Warenna. 

The early descents of the Pierrepont family are rather 
uncertain. Dugdale does not speak with certainty, Collins differs from 
Dugdale, and Edmondson differs from Dugdale, and Collins and Jacob 
also give pedigrees. The true descent seems to be the following : — 

Robert de Pierrepont 

t. William the Conqueror 

I 
William t. Will. II. 

1 
Hugh i. Hen. II. 



William 



Beatrix = William de Warenna, 

Baron Warenna of Wo- 
ringay, co. Norfolk. 



Sir Robert = Maud 



Simon, 
of Herst Pierrepoint, co. Sussex. 



Henry de P. of Holbeck 
Woodhouse, co. Notts. 



Robert 



Sir Henry or Robert = Annora, dau. of Michael, and sister 



d. 1292. 



and heir of Lionel de Manvers, 
of Holme, co. Notts, d. 1314. 



Sir Simon P. 

I 
John P. == Ela, daughter of Sir 

I William de Calthorp, 

I t. Edw. III. 

Elizabeth = Sir Thos. Dacre 



Sir Robert = 
of Holme Pierre- 
pont, CO. Notts. 



Sarah d. and eventual heir of 
Sir John Heriz, of Wingfield, 
CO. Derby, Knt. 



Henry 
direct ancestor 
of Sir Geo. 
Pierrepont, 
grandfather of 
Robert Pierre- 
pont, Viscount 

Newark. 



Margaret, d. of Sir William 

Fitz Williams, of Curly, 

Knt. 



Simon P. summoned 
as Baron in 1304. 
I 
Sybil 
m, Edmund de Ufford 



Joan ■■ 



■■ Rich. Fienes, 
Lord Dacre 



Sir Robert = Eleanor, d. of Sir Thos. Felton, 
de Ufford | Knt., K.G. 



Ela, m. Rich. 
Bowet 



Sibyl 
a nun 



Joan = William' Bowet 



Henry Sir Edmund = Joan, wife of Sir George 

d. 1370 I Montbouchier, of Gamultston, 
I CO. Notts, Knt. 

Sir Edmund. 



Elizabeth 



■ Thos. son of Thos. 

6th Lord Dacre. 



The property was in the same family in the time of Hen. IL being then 
held by Simon " Pierpont." From the Close Rolls we learn that in 1229 
there was an action pending between William de Anney and this Simon de 
Pierpont, and others, tenants of one carucate of land in Benacre.' This 
Simon had in 1237 wreck of the sea in the village of Benacre.^ In the time 
of Edw. L we learn from the Hundred Rolls that Robert de Pierpont had 
free warren in Wrentham, Henstead, and Benacre, with the right of gallows 
and wreck of sea in the latter parish as his ancestors had enjoyed from 
the Norman Conquest.* 

The manor and advowson of Benacre continued in the family for about 
300 years. In 1281 it is stated that William de Kerdeston, John Bomond, 
and John Bunglond were lords, but probably only as trustees, for Sir Henry 



' Dom. ii. 3yib. 

' Close Rolls, 13 Hen. II. 3d. 



' Q. W. 724. 
* H. R. ii. 



THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 



de Pierpont, who died in 1292, was certainly lord of the manor at that date. 
On his death the manor appears to have passed to his son Simon de Pierpont, 
who was lord in 1316. He had been summoned to ParUament as a baron 
in 1294. His daughter and heir Sybil married Sir Edmund de Ufford, son 
of Ralph de Ufford, and the manor passed into the Ufford family. 

Sir Edmund and Sybil had issue Sir Robert de Ufford, v/ho married 
Eleanor daughter of Sir Thomas Felton, Knt., and they left issue three 
daughters and coheirs, Ela married to Richard Bowet, Sybil a nun at Bark- 
ing, and Joan married to William Bowett, brother of Richard. The manor 
seems to have vested in the daughter Joan, for she and her husband 
presented to the hving in 1409 and William Bowet alone in 1418. The 
manor on Wilham's death passed to his only daughter Elizabeth who 
married Sir Thomas, son of Thomas 6th Lord Dacre, and Sir Thomas 
presented to the church in 1434. 

By a fine levied in Hilary Term 1446-7 between Thomas Hoo, jun., 
and Bartholomew Bohne, complainant, the said Thomas Dacre and Elizabeth 
his wife, deforciants, with respect to this manor and the Manors of Northales, 
Cove, Bowfiory, Thorington, Burgh next Grundisburgh, Wrentham, and 
Henstead, and the advowson of the Abbey of Sibton and Priory of Blyth- 
burgh, these were limited to the said Thomas Dacre and Elizabeth his wife 
for their lives, and upon their death this manor and the Manors of Wrentham, 
Henstead, Thorington, and Burgh near Grundisburgh were to remain to 
Robert Fienes and PhiHppa his wife with remainder to the issue of the said 
Philippa in default to Richard Fienes and Joan his wife, only child of 
Thomas Dacre and the issue of the said Joan. By virtue of this fine Thomas 
Dacre and Elizabeth his wife entered into possession, and both dying the 
manor passed to Robert Fienes and Philippa his wife, and Philippa dying 
the said Richard Fienes and Joan his wife entered into possession and 
disseised the said Robert Fienes. 

Richard Fienes became 7th Baron Dacre, and died in 1484, leaving 
Joan his widow surviving, whereupon Robert Fienes ousted her. On a 
commission in 1487 after the death of Joan it was found that Richard 
Fienes and Joan did not unjustly disseise the said Robert Fienes, but that 
the latter surrendered his interest in the manor to the said Richard Fienes 
and Joan his wife and her issue.' 

On Joan Baroness Dacre's death in i486' the manor passed to her 
grandson Thomas, 8th Lord Dacre, son of her eldest son Sir John who had 
died in his mother's hfetime, by his wife Ahce eldest daughter and coheir 
of Henry Lord Fitz-Hugh. He married Anne daughter of Sir Humphrey 
Bourchier, Knt., son and heir apparent of John Bourchier, Lord Berners. 
He was summoned to Parhament from 14th Oct. 1495, to 5th Jan. 1533-4, 
and was made a Knight of the Bath at the creation of Henry 2nd son of 
Hen. Vn. as Duke of York. He had issue a son Sir Thomas Fienes and a 
daughter Mary married to Henry Norris.^ Thomas died before his father, 



Pat. Rolls, 2 Hen. VII. pt. i, 3 and 2$d. 

Will, 13 Oct. 1485, pr. 14 June, i486. 

This is the man who fell a sacrifice to the 
suspicious temper of Hen. VIII. and 
under the accusation of a criminal 
familiarity unto Queen Anne Boleyn 
was tried, condemned as guilty, and 
beheaded 14 May, 1536. He was 
much in the King's favour, and was 
sent for and offered by his sovereign 



remission of the death penalty if he 
would confess his guilt, but Norris 
nobly rejected the offer, saying 
"That in his conscience he thought 
the Queen innocent, and that he 
would die a thousand times rather 
than ruin an innocent person." 
Upon which it is asserted the King 
cried out, " Hang him up then, hang 
him up then." 



BENACRE MANOR. 7 

leaving by Jane his wife, daughter of Alward Sutton, Lord Dudley, Thomas 
his son and heir and a daughter Anne married to — Mantell. This Thomas 
succeeded his grandfather on his death in 1534.' 

He married Mary daughter of George Nevill, Lord Abergavenny and 
had two sons, Thomas who died young, Gregory his successor, and one 
daughter Margaret married to Sampson Leonard afterwards Lord Dacre. 

Thomas, 9th Lord Dacre, was high in favour with Hen. VHL, and at 
the christening of Edward Prince of Wales, was appointed in the service of 
spiced wine, &c., in the chapel, after the baptism, to bear the spice plate 
to Lady Mary, the godmother, and Lady Ehzabeth, as Lord Montagu was 
to uncover the plate, the Lords Hastings and De La Warr were to bear 
the cup to them, and Lord Cobham the wafers. In 1540 upon Ann of Cleves' 
arrival in England, he, with the Duke of Norfolk and Lord Mount] oy, met 
her with a numerous company of knights and gentlemen upon Kirkham 
Down, beyond Canterbury, from whence he conducted her to Rochester 
and the next day to Blackheath, where the King first saw her. But in the 
3"ear following, being then 24 years of age, going unfortunately one night 
to chase the deer in Laughton Park, Sir Nicholas Pelham's Sussex seat, 
with other persons in a frolic (usual among the young people in that day), and 
a fray ensuing between some of them (for he happened to be in a different 
part of the park) and the park-keepers, one of the latter was killed. 

All concerned in the frolic were tried for murder. Lord Dacre was 
found guilty as an accessory, and was hung at Tyburn 29th June, 1541, 
accordingly, when his estates became forfeited. We are told indeed that 
his estates caused his destruction, the courtiers coveting these rather 
exaggerating than mitigating the owner's offence to the King — a monarch 
at no time too prone to mercy. 

The 9th baron, Gregory, was restored to his honours as loth Baron 
Dacre by Act of Parliament [1558], and also to his estates. 

He was summoned to Parliament from nth Jan. 1572-3, to igth 
Feb. 1592-3. We find the manor included with the Manors of Northales, 
Wymples in Thorington, Covehithe, and Wrentham, in a fine levied in 
1564 by Sir Richard Sakevyle against Philip Fynes.- 

A MS. in the Brit. Mus.^ returns in 1571 George Fienes Lord Dacre as 
holding the manor and advowson of Benacre of the Queen in chief, with 
license of alienation to Roger Manwood and others. George is no doubt one 
with Gregory. 

He married Ann, daughter of Sir Richard Sackville and sister of Thomas 
ist Earl of Dorset, and died without issue 25th Sept. 1594, being buried at 
Chelsea."* His widow died 14th May, 1595.^ 

Gregory, loth Lord Dacre, was the last of the Fienes name. It was 
at this nobleman's (Gregory Lord Dacre) house at Chelsea that Queen 
Elizabeth, happening to dine on goose on Michaelmas day, in her progress 
to review the forces at Tilbury Fort, gave rise to the custom of eating goose 
on that day ever since in England, and the news of the dispersion of the 
great Spanish Armada, arriving before the Queen rose from the table, made 
it altogether a remarkable repast. 

By 1577 it is said the manor had passed to John Whinburgh, of 
Norfolk, but we find this same year it vested in Henry Lord Norris (son of 

' Will, I Sept. 1531, pr. i8 May, 1539. * Will pr. 1594. 

' Fine Hil. 6 Eliz. = Will pr. 1595. 

3 Harl, 1232. 



8 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

the unfortunate Norris.the victim of Hen. VIII. 's vindictiveness), who had 
been made a peer of the realm by Queen EHzabeth 8th May, 1572, and by 
fine the same year conveyed it to William Sydnor and Humphrey Yarmouth.' 
William Sydnor sold his moiety to WiUiam Playters. 

In the time of Chas. I. the manor and advowson were purchased 
by Henry North of Laxfield, 2nd son of Sir Henry North, of Mildenhall. ' 
He bequeathed the manor to his 2nd son Edward by will dated loth Dec. 

1653-' 

Edward North married ist Frances, daughter and heir of Edmund 
Eade, D.D., and 2ndly Ann, daughter of John Arthur and widow of John 
Colby of Banham co. Norfolk. Edward North died 5th June, 1701, and the 
manor passed to his son and heir Henry North, who married Mary, daughter 
of Sir Thomas CuUum, Bart., and died i6th Dec. 1701^ without surviving 
issue, being succeeded by his brother Edward North. 

Edward North married Ann, daughter and coheir of John Colby of 
Banham' and dying 12th Feb. 1707-8, without issue the manor passed under 
his will after the decease of his widow Ann to his nephew Thomas Carthew, 
eldest son of Thomas Carthew.'' 

Thomas Carthew the devisee built the Hall about 1721, and married 
ist Sarah, daughter of Sir Thomas Powys, Knt., Judge of the Queen's Bench, 
who died 17th August, 1727, Thomas Carthew dying in 1741. After his 
death the estate was sold by his widow (a second wife) and son in 1743 for 
£15,800^ to Thomas Gooch, then Bishop of Norwich, afterwards Sir Thomas 
Gooch, 2nd Bart., he succeeding to the title on the death of his brother Sir 
William, the well-known Governor of Virginia, who had been created a 
baronet 4th Nov. 1746, and died without issue in 1751. 

The agreement for sale is dated nth August, 1743, and is between 
Elizabeth Carthew widow, and Thomas Gooch of Morning Thorpe co. 
Norfolk. It included " All those the Manors of Benacres, Northales, 
Easton Bavent with Empoles in the County of Suffolk, &c., also the ad vow- 
sons of Benacre, Covehithe, otherwise Northales and Easton." Thomas 
Carthew had an estate at Woodbridge as well as at Benacre. These 
estates were mortgaged for large sums, and were chargeable with £5,000 
for portions for his daughters by his first wife. He was also indebted by 
bond to several persons. After his second marriage he made a voluntary 
settlement on his wife for life of the estate at Woodbridge in bar of dower. 
After this, 26th August, 1738, he made his will and directed his executors 
to sell the estate at Benacre, the money to be appUed for paying all his 
debts and incumbrances in order that his Woodbridge estate might be clear. 
He gave hkewise £600 a piece to each of his three daughters by his 2nd 
wife, and left some legacies consisting of about £100 to his wife and his 
relatives. After making his will he levied a fine upon all his lands, and 
died without having made any repubhcation of his will. His wife, one of 
the executors (the other dechning to act) agreed to sell Benacre. The 

' Fine, Trin. 19 Eliz. ' See Woodbridge Manor in Loes Hundied. 

'See Manor of Mildenhall in Lackford ' The Manor of Easton Bavent purchase d 

Hundred. in 1718 by Mr. Carthew of the 

' Proved 12 June, 1654. heiress of Jeffrey Howland, who 

' His will IS dated Dec. 1701, and it was married the Duke of Bedford, was 

proved the 30th March, 1702. included in the Gooch purchase. 

= Davy in one place says his wife was 

Frances daughter and heir of 

Edmund Eade, who died 26th 

April, 1663. 



BENACRE MANOR. 9 

will was proved in Chancery, but at that time it was not known that he 
had levied a fine. Upon discovery of the fine it was apprehended that the 
fine revoked the will, and that the lands descended to his son by the 2nd 
marriage, an infant of 15 years. 

The family of Gooch had long flourished in Suffolk, and Sir Thomas's 
ancestor Robert Gooch hailed from Bungay. He had two sons, WilUam 
Gooch of Mettingham, who married Martha, daughter of Christopher 
Layer of the City of Norwich, and had two sons and one daughter, viz. (i) 
William, (2) Thomas, alderman and thrice baiHff of Yarmouth, who married 
Joan, daughter of Thomas Atkins, alderman of London, by whom (dying 
27th Feb. 1678) he had one son Leonard Gooch of Earsham in Norfolk. 
William Gooch the elder son resided at Mettingham, and was a J. P. in 1664. 
He married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Richard Baspoole of St. Mar- 
garet's, by whom he had two sons and two daughters, viz. (i) Richard who 
died in Sept. 1682 (having married Anne, daughter and heir of Arthur 
Colman of St. John's, by whom he had one son WiUiam born in 1665 and 
three daughters Mary, EUzabeth, and Frances), (2) Thomas (son of Wilham). 
The daughters of WilUam were Martha and Barbara. Thomas the 2nd 
son of William married in March, 1682, Frances, daughter and coheir of 
Thomas Lone of Worlingham, who died 25th July, 1696, aged 44, and was 
buried at Yarmouth, by whom he had two sons and two daughters : (t) 
Thomas the Bishop of Ely and 2nd Bart. (2) Sir WiUiam Gooth the ist Bart. 
(3) Frances, (4) Matilda. Thomas the father died in 1658. Sir William 
Gooch was born 21st Oct, 1681, and served in the army, distinguishing 
himself as a gallant officer throughout all Queen Anne's wars and assisted 
in subduing the rebelUon in Scotland in 1715. He married Rebecca Staun- 
ton, of Hampton, co. Middlesex. 

In 1727 the King made him Lieutenant-governor of Virginia, and he 
was said to have been the only governor abroad against whom no inhabitant 
or merchant ever once complained. In 1740 he became Colonel of an 
American regiment, and was sent with it to the siege of Carthagena, where 
he was severely wounded. He was advanced to the rank of Brigadier 
Major-General, and retiring to England died 17 Dec. 1751, the baronetcy 
passing to his brother Thomas, Bishop of Ely. The Bishop had been head 
of Caius CoUege, Cambridge, in 1716, Vice-Chancellor 1717, Bishop of Bristol 
1737, of Norwich 1738, and finally of Ely 1747. The Bishop, during the 
violence of party in Dr. Bentley's time, was shot at as he was passing from 
chapel to Caius Lodge. 

Sir Thomas Gooch married ist Mary, sister of Thomas Sherlock, Bishop 
of London ; 2ndly Harriet, daughter of Sir Thomas MiUer, Bart., of Lavant in 
Sussex; and 3rdly Mary, daughter of Major-Gen. Hatton Crampton and 
niece of Bishop Compton and the Earl of Northampton, and died 14th 
Feb. 1754, when he was succeeded by his son Sir Thomas Gooch, 3rd Bart., 
who married ist in 1743 Anne, daughter and heir of John Atwood of Sax- 
Ungham, in Norfolk, and 2ndly in 1772 Phoebe, daughter of Isaac Norton of 
London and widow of Horatio Birtles, Consul at Genoa and sometime 
Governor of Grenada. 

Sir Thomas died 10th Sept. 1781, and the manor passed to his eldest 
son Sir Thomas Gooch, 4th Bart., High Sheriff for the county in 1785. He 
married in 1766 Anna Maria, daughter and heir of WilUam Ha)rward, 
descended from WilUam Patten commonly called de Wainfleet, founder of 
Magdalen CoU. Oxford, and d)dng 7th April, 1826, at the age of 81, the manor 
passed to his eldest son Sir Thomas Sherlock Gooch, 5th Bart., M.P. for 

B 



10 



THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 



Suffolk and High Sheriff in 1833. He married in 1796 Marianne, daughter 
of Abraham Whittaker of Lyster House, Hereford, sister of Charlotte 
Maria Countess of Stradbroke, and dying 18 Dec. 1851, the manor passed 
to his eldest son Sir Edward Sherlock Gooch, 6th Bart., M.P. for 
the Eastern Division of Suffolk. He married in 1828 ist Louisa Anna 
Maria, 2nd daughter of Sir George Beeston Prescott, Bart., and 2ndly in 
1830 Harriet, 3rd daughter of James Hope Vere of Craigie co. Linlithgow, 
and dying 9th Nov. 1856, the manor passed to his eldest son Sir Edward 
Sherlock Gooth,7th Bart., who married in 1866 Ellen Emily, eldest daughter 
of Robert Augustus Hankey Hirst of Down Grange, Basingstoke, Hants. 
He died and the manor passed to his brother Francis Robert Sherlock 
Lambert Gooch, 8th Bart., who dying in 1881 the manor passed to his brother 
Sir Alfred Sherlock Gooch, 9th Bart., who married AUce EUzabeth, eldest 
daughter of Edward Williams. 

Sir Alfred S. Gooch was High Sheriff for the county in 1885, and dying 
25th Feb. 1899 the manor passed to and is now vested in his eldest son Sir 
Thomas Vere Sherlock Gooch, loth Bart. He married in 1902 Florence 
Meta, daughter of James Finucane Draper of St. Heliers, Jersey. 

Arms of Pierrepont : Arg., semee of cinquefoils, Gu., a lion rampant, 
Sa., or, a lion rampant Sa. within an orle of cinquefoils, Gu. Of Dacre : 
Az. three lions rampant. Or. Dacre Per bend, sinister, Erm. and Erms., a 
lion rampant. Or. Of Whinburgh : Perfess indented Arg. and Sab. three 
bears passant, counterchanged. Of Carthew : Or, a chevron Sab. between 
3 Cornish doughs proper. Of Gooch : Per pale, Arg. and Sa., a chevron, 
between three Talbots, statant, counterchanged, on a chief Gules, three 
leopards' heads. Or. 




Benacre Hall. 




BLYTHBURGH. ii 

BLYTHBURGH. 

jHE main manor was held by Edward the Confessor with 
5 carucates and 15 acres. There were 8 villeins, 39 bordars, 
and I serf, and one ploughteam was employed on the demesne 
land, but there was land enough to employ 5 ploughteams. 
Roger Bigot later took over the manor (from the King), 
at which time and at the time of the Survey there were 
3 oxen. The men always had 21 ploughteams. There 
was wood sufficient to maintain 40 hogs, and 6 acres were meadow. Seven 
socmen subject to all customs held 3 carucates and 84 acres with 16 bordars 
and 9 ploughteams. There was also a market, and wood sufficient for 
30 hogs, and 2 acres of meadow. The great Survey states that every fourth 
penny of the tax levied upon the park of Rumhnrgh. (Riseburc)' belonged 
to the Manor of Blythburgh, and was shared by the King and Earl Bigot. 

The whole manor rendered in King Edward's time £30 by tale and one 
day's provision of honey with all customary dues. The valuation when 
Roger Bigot took it over was £$0 weight, but by 1087 this had come down 
to £23. 

The church of Blythburgh possessed 2 carucates of land with 9 villeins 
and 4 bordars. In Saxon times there was one ploughteam in demesne, but 
it had become reduced by Norman days to half a team, like as the plough- 
teams belonging to the men had diminished from 4 to i. 

There was wood sufficient to support 20 hogs and also half an acre of 
meadow. The manor formerly rendered 10,000 herrings, but this contribu- 
tion seems to have been commuted for in part, as by the time of the Survey 
the render was 50s. and 3,000 herrings. This Osbern Masculus held as an 
eleemos5mary gift of the King's, and to the church belonged two other 
subordinate and without land. At the time of the Domesday Record the 
whole of Blythburgh was entered as land of the King in the region of which 
Roger Bigot had the keeping.'' 

Roger Bigot in his own right held a manor here consisting of i 
carucate and a half of land, which had in King Edward's time been held 
by Wolsey. It is entered in the Survey under the head " Bringas." In 
Saxon times there were two villeins, 4 ploughteams in demesne, and 2 
belonging to the tenants, wood sufficient for the maintenance of 8 hogs, 
18 acres of meadow, 2 mills, i salt pan, 11 hogs, and 20 goats, valued at 30s. 
At the time of the Survey the value was 40s., the bordars had increased to 
10, while the serfs had come down to one, the ploughteams in demesne 
were but 2 though a third could be made up, and they had but one plough- 
team and a half. There were three acres in Dunwich belonging to this 
manor, and the soc was in Robert Malet, the value being 22i. Three free- 
men with 60 acres had been added to the manor, and they formerly had 
2 ploughteams, but at the time of the Survey one only, the value being 8s. 
This manor was held by Robert de Curcun of Roger Bigot ; it was 9 quaran- 
tenes long and 7 broad, rendered i|^. in a king's gelt, and the soc belonged 
to the King and the Earl. Roger Bigot also had another manor in Hinton, 
a hamlet of Blythburgh, which Robert of Blythburgh held of him. It 
consisted of 50 acres, and had in the Confessor's time belonged to Hegel- 
wald, a freeman. There were 2 bordars, i ploughteam in demesne, and i 
rouncy, 4 beasts, 4 hogs, and 50 sheep, valued at 8s. Of this land Robert 
of Blythburgh held 12 acres by way of alms from the King, to wit of the 

■ Suckling thinks " Risby," ' Dom. ii. 28a. 



12 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK, 

church of Blythburgh, which fact the Hundred testified. To this manor 
had been added 6 freemen (over whom Roger's predecessor had commenda- 
tion) with 50 acres of land, i ploughteam, and i acre of meadow valued at 
4s.' 

There are three entries under Hopton, " Opituna/' or " Hoppetuna," 
in the Domesday Survey which probably relate to Westwood Lodge in 
Blythburgh. The first, amongst the possessions of the freemen under Roger 
Bigot, consisted of 60 acres formerly held by Bond, a freeman, as a manor, over 
whom Toh had commendation. In Saxon times there were 3 bordars, i 
ploughteam in demesne and half a team belonging to the men, 2 acres of 
meadow, wood sufficient for the support of 2 hogs, valued at i6s. By the 
time of the Survey there were no bordars and i ploughteam belonging to the 
men, but the ploughteam in demesne appears to have gone. The King 
and the Earl had the soc. In this holding was half a church with 4 acres and 
a half of meadow valued at 31^.' The second is amongst the possessions of 
Robert Malet held of him by Gilbert, and consisted of 42 acres, 2 bordars, i 
ploughteam, and 2 acres of meadow, valued at los., held as a manor in the 
time of the Confessor by Alnoth, a freeman under commendation. Malet 
also had here 18 acres held by 2 freemen under commendation and valued 
at 3s., the King and the Earl having the soc.^ 

Manor of Blythburgh. 

This manor extended into Huntingfield and Cratfield, in each of which 
villages it claimed 40 acres of land and other possessions. As Suckhng 
observes, it is evident from this account that Blythburgh was a village of 
considerable wealth and importance. Even in the most "high and palmy 
state " of Dunwich, if a thief were taken in that city, though his trial were 
conducted there his punishment was inflicted at Blythburgh, where before 
the Conquest the only " cambitar " or money changer resided. 

Blythburgh Manor was granted by Henry I. to the Bp. of Norwich, 
who exchanged it for Thorpe with William de Cheney. King Stephen by 
charter granted it to John Fitz Robert, and a copy of the charter is given 
by Suckling in his History of Suffolk.* 

Hen. II., however, probably resumed his predecessor's grant, for the 
Empress Maud was given the revenues for her life. On her death the King 
gave it to William de Norwich, or de Cheney as he was usually called, to 
hold by the service of a knight's fee. A copy of the grant is given by 
Suckling.' 

WiUiam de Norwich also had a licence for a weekly market at Blyth- 
burgh to be kept on Thursdays and for three annual fairs. He died seised 
of the manor, and it passed to his only child Margaret or Margery de Cheney. 

Margaret married ist Hugh de Cressi and 2ndly Robert Fitz Roger, 
who each successively took the lordship in her right during their Uves. 
Margaret had by her ist husband a son Roger who had two sons, Hugh 
and Stephen de Cressi. She had a grant of free warren and wreck of the 
sea from " Eycliffe juxta Southwolde " to the port of Dunwich, and a 
ferry-boat there, with privilege to exact a halfpenny for every man and 
horse passing over the same. She had likewise customary travers for 
passage through Blythburgh and Walberswick, viz. : for each 
loaden carriage shod with iron, one penny, and without, a halfpenny. 

■ Dom. ii. 331. 4 Vol. ii. p. 132. 

' Dom. ii. 3636. 5 Hist, of Suff. vol. ii. p. 132. 

3 Dom. ii. 363 b. . , • 



BLYTHBURGH. 13 

The tenants of the said Margaret were enjoined to keep Walberswick 
Bridge — which has long been demohshed — in good repair; as well as the 
common highway for foot and horse in Blythburgh. By covenant with 
this lady, Dunwich gave licence to the towns of Blythburgh and Walbers- 
wick to occupy any number of merchant ships or fishing-boats they thought 
fit, paying certain customs thereon. Her second husband received an 
increase on these tolls, that is, for every wheeled carriage shod with iron, 
and loaded with corn or fish, passing through Blythburgh or Walbers- 
wick, twopence, and for every horse carrying the same a halfpenny, and 
the like sum for every carriage with wheels not shod with iron. This 
Robert Fitz- Roger had £xn] rent in Blythburgh in the year 1201.' 

Roger de Cressi, Margaret's son, in iigg married Isabel, youngest 
daughter and coheir of Hubert de Rye, and joining in the Baron's wars 
against King John had his estates in Suffolk seized and granted to Robert 
de Ferrariis. They were, however, restored by Hen. HI. 

Roger's two sons, Hugh and Stephen de Cressi, were successively lords 
of Blythburgh. Hugh died in 1263' and Stephen married Ermetrude, who 
remarried Roger de Colville or Corbry. 

Suckling informs us that Robert Fitz Roger de Corbur, the 2nd 
husband of Margaret de Cheney, a man who was Sheriff of the County in 
the 3rd and 4th year of Richard I. (1192) had a grant of the manor 
from the Crown with all its ancient privileges. 

His only authority cited is the Hundred Rolls, which state that the 
manor was held by Robert Fitz Roger. It seems pretty clear that 
SuckUng's statement is rather dubious. The 2nd husband of Margaret 
de Cheney would no doubt have been entitled to hold the manor as tenant 
by the curtesy during his Ufe, and Suckling makes him hold as late as the 
time of Edw. I., and yet he says that Margaret de Cheney's two grandsons 
by her ist husband were successively lords of the manor, and that Hugh 
de Cressi, one of such grandsons, did not die till 1263, when the manor 
reverted to the King, who granted to Ermetrude the widow of Hugh's 
brother Stephen an annuity of £10 per annum out of the manor. 

Margaret de Cheney must have had a fine old gentleman for her 2nd 
husband, according to the Suffolk historian, for we are gravely informed 
that he, Robert Fitz Roger, who was Sheriff of the County in 1192, was 
holding this manor in the time of the Hundred Rolls returns, which, assum- 
ing that he was not more than 20 when he held the important office of 
High Sheriff would make SuckUng's Robert Fitz Roger well over 100 years 
of age. The probabihty is that the Robert Fitz Roger referred to in the 
Hundred Rolls was the grandson of the 2nd husband of Margaret de Cheney. 

The last Robert Fitz Roger's son John Fitz Robert assumed the 
name of De Clavering, and married in 1278 Hawise, daughter of Robert de 
Tibetot, by whom he had an only daughter Eve. Sir John de Clavering 
having no male issue settled the manor on King Edward II. King 
Edward III. in the 2nd year of his reign, the manor having then reverted 
to the Crown, settled it upon Edmund de Clavering, brother of Sir John, 
for life with remainder to Ralph de Nevil who had married Eve, the only 
daughter and heir of Sir John de Clavering. John died in 1332, and 
Ralph the son of Ralph de Nevil and Eve his wife died in 1367, being 
succeeded by Sir John de Nevil, who sold the manor for 40 marks to 
Sir Robert de Swillington in 1372. 

■ Suckling, ii. 133. ' I. P.M., 47 Hen. III. file 28 (14). 



14 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

Sir Robert de Swillington died in 1391' and was succeeded by his 
son Sir Roger, who in the Exchequer Rolls is stated to have held the manor 
in chief of the King for two knights' fees. He died in 1418 leaving a son 
John, who died this or the following year, and according to Suckhng, two 
daughters Margaret and Anne. The former daughter married Sir John Gra 
of Ingoldsby in Lincolnshire, and the latter (who ultimately was sole heir 
of Sir Roger Swillington) Sir John Hopton. 

Suckhng gives no authority for his statement that Sir Roger SwiUington 
left besides a daughter Margaret a daughter Anne married to John Hopton, 
except an unconvincing entry in Hervey's Visitation of 1561, and as will 
be seen in the account of the descent of the Manor of Brent Fen in Middleton 
in this Hundred, the title of John Hopton is derived in a different mode.' 

Sir John Hopton was succeeded in 14803 by his son Sir John Hopton, 
who married ist a daughter of Sir John Heveningham, and 2ndly 
Margaret, daughter and heir of Sir John Savell, and died in 1489, when the 
manor passed to his son and heir Sir William Hopton, Custos of Dunwich. 
He was a great courtier, treasurer of the house and of the Privy Council 
to Edw. IV., and Sheriff of Norf. and Suff. in the time of Rich. HI. 

Sir William resided at Westwode, and married Margaret, daughter of 
Sir Roger Wentworth, of Nettlestead, Knt., and on his death the manor 
passed to his son and heir Sir George Hopton. Sir George was created 
a Knight Banneret at the Battle of Stoke by Hen. VII. He married 
Thomasine, daughter of — Snowhill or Southill of Yorkshire, and dying 
6th July, 1490, the manor passed to his widow Thomasine for Hfe, and on 
her death in 1499 to their son Sir Arthur Hopton, M.P. for Dunwich and 
Housekeeper of Henham Hall for Hen. VIH., Sir George's eldest son John 
aged only 2 having died in the lifetime of his father*. Sir Arthur Hopton 
married ist Maude, daughter of Sir Edward Dymocke, and 2ndly Anne, 
daughter of Sir Davy Owen, of Cowdrye, co. Sussex, Knt., natural son of 
Owen Tudor (the husband of Catherine, Queen Dowager of Hen. V.), and 
dying 15th Aug. 1555= the manor passed to Sir Owen Hopton, Lieut, of 
the Tower of London, who married Anne, daughter and coheir of Sir 
Edward Ecklingham. 

Sir Owen Hopton is said to have sold the manor to Sir Robert Broke, 
alderman of London. We meet with a fine of the manor levied in 1585 
by Edmund Hall and others against Sir Owen Hopton and others^, but the 
manor does not seem to have passed to Sir Robert Broke until 1592 or 
1597, for in the first of these years there is a fine levied by the said Robert 
Broke against Arthur Hopton, son and heir of Sir Owen Hopton and others^ 
and in the second of these years a fine levied between the same parties.* 

Sir Robert Broke died in 1600, and was succeeded by his son Sir 
Robert Broke, who died in 1646. 

Suckhng states that the manor did not pass from the Hoptons till 
the time of Charles L, but this does not seem to be the case. The 2nd 
Sir Robert Broke was succeeded by his son and heir John Broke, who 
married Jane, daughter of Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston, on whom the manor 
was settled in jointure. 

• Will dated 7tli July, 1391, proved at ^ I.P.M., 19 Edw. III. 70. 

Canterbury 22nd July, 1391, and * I. P.M. 5 Hen. VII. 589, 643. 

before the Bp. of Lincoln at Sle- = I.P.M. 2 and 3 P. and M. 62. 

ford Ist Sept. I391. ' Fine, Easter, 27 Eliz. 

= See Yorkshire Notes and Queries (1907), ' Fine, Trin. 34 Eliz. 

vol. iv. 188. ' Fine, Mich. 39-40 Eliz. 



BLYTHBURGH. 15 

John Broke died without issue in 1652, and his widow remarried 
William Blois, afterwards vSir William Blois' who in right of his wife held 
his first Court in 1660. 

Sir William Blois's 1st wife had been Martha, daughter of Sir Robert 
Brooke, of Cockfield Hall in Yoxford. Sir William Blois's son Charles 
Blois succeeded to the lordship in 1675 on the death of his father, and was 
created a Baronet 15th April, 1686. He served in ParUament for Ipswich 
in 1690 and for Dunwich in 1701. He married ist Mary, daughter of 
Sir Robert Kemp, 2nd Bart., of Gissing co. Norfolk, Bart., and 2ndly Anne, 
daughter of Ralph Hawtrey, of Risehp co. Middlesex, and died 9th April, 
1738, aged 80,' when he was succeeded by his grandson Sir Charles Blois, 
son of WilUam Blois byjane,3rd daughter of Sir Robert Kemp, of Ubbeston, 
3rd Bart., who had died in 1734 in his father's lifetime. Sir Charles Blois, 
2nd Bart., died unmarried 26th Feb., 1760, when the manor passed to 
his uncle Sir Charles, who died without issue in 1761, and was succeeded by 
his half-brother the Rev. Sir Ralph Blois, 4th Bart. 

He married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Reginald Rabett, of Bram- 
field^ and died 8th May, 1762, when the manor passed under his will, dated 
17th Dec. 1761, to his son and heir Sir John Blois, 5th Bart. He married ist 
Sarah, youngest daughter of George Thornhill, of Diddingston co. Hunting- 
don, and 2ndly Lucretia dau. and heir of Thomas Otley, of the Island of St. 
Kitt's in the West Indies, and d5dng 17th Jan. 1810, the manor passed to 
his son and heir Sir Charles Blois, 6th Bart., who married 19th Jan. 1789, 
Clara, daughter and coheir of Jocelyn Price, of Camblesforth Hall, co. 
York, and died 20th Aug. 1850, when he was succeeded by his son and 
heir Sir Charles Blois, 7th Bart., on whose death unmarried 12th June 1855 
the manor vested in his nephew and heir Sir John Ralph Blois, 8th Bart. 

He married 25th Jan. 1865, Eliza Ellen, youngest daughter of Captain 
Alfred Chapman, R.N., of Eaton Place, and on his death 31st Dec. 1888 
the manor passed to, and is now vested in, his son and heir Sir Ralph 
Barrett Macnaghten Blois, 9th Bart., of Grundisburgh Hall and Cockfield 
Hall, Yoxford. 

Suckling gives in full the confirmation of the grant of the manor by 
Philip and Mary to Owen Hopton.'* 

Amongst the Additional Charters in the Brit. Mus. is a Mandamus 
dated at Westminster 30th Jan. i Hen. VII., declaring the tenants of the 
Manor of " Blideburc " to continue free from " Thelonium " (toll) and 
contribution to the expenses of Knights in Parliament. ^ 

Arms of Hopton : Ermine two bars, three Mullets Or. Of Blois : 
Gules a Bend vaire, between two fleur-de-lis, Argent. 

Manor of Blythburgh late Priory. 

This manor in the time of Hen. I. belonged to the Abbot of St. Osyth, 
Essex, who founded Blythburgh Priory a small house of Augustines or 
Black Canons. It was not exactly a cell of St. Osyth, for the revenues 
were valued separately, and the prior and convent presented to their own 
livings and generally seemed a distinct body, subject to the Abbot of St. 
Osyth in the nomination of its Head only. 

'As to this family see also Grundisburgh 'A lineal descendant from William Rabett, 
Manor in Carlford Hundred. who served for Dunwich in the 12th 

' Will 13th Aug. 1734, pr. Lond. i6thjune. Parliament of King Edw. IV. 

1738. * Vol. iii. pp. 140, 141. 

5 Add. Ch. 17636. 



i6 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

The Churches of Blythburgh, Bramfield, Wenhaston, Walberswick, 
Thorington and Blythford with the Chapel of Mells were appropriated 
to this house. 

Suckhng' gives a charter of Rich. I. disclosing the possessions of the 
Priory and recording the names of its benefactors in 1199. 

In 1528 Cardinal Wolsey obtained a Bull from' the Pope for the 
suppression of the Priory with the object of annexing its revenues to his 
college at Ipswich, but on his disgrace the King seized the Priory and its 
revenues, and in 1538 granted the site, manor and possessions to Sir Arthur 
Hopton of Westwood Lodge by Letters Patent dated 12th Nov. 1538. The 
grant includes the site and manor of the Priory, Hinton Hall and the lands 
called Bullock's Broome close, Mill-hill close, Arnold's close, Appleton 
mead, with the watermill and other tenements in Blythburgh, all the tithes 
of Blythburgh, Walberswick and Blythford, the impropriations of Wen- 
haston and Bramfield and the advowson of Thorington as parcel of the 
possessions of this house. 

The Priory Manor — which from having fallen into the hands of Sir 
Arthur Hopton who was lord of the main manor in the parish was in- 
corporated with it — extended into the parishes of Thorington, Bramfield, 
Westhall, Halesworth, Chedeston, Bulchamp, Blythford, Wenhaston, 
Hinton, Walberswick, Linstead, Sotherton, Holton, and Mells in 
Wenhaston. In 1552 Letters Patent were passed dated 14th June, 7 
Edw. VI., confirming the grant of Hen. VIII. and settUng the priory and 
estates on the said Sir Arthur Hopton and his heirs for ever. 

Robert and Ralph Upton (? Hopton) had licence to alien in 1622 to 
Sir Robert Brooke to whom a conveyance was made accordingly, and on 
his death the manor passed to his son and heir John Brooke, who died 
without issue in 1657, ^^'^ was succeeded by his brother Robert Brooke. 
The manor subsequently devolved in the same mode as the main manor. 

Manor of Hinton late Priory. 

This manor was also given by the Abbot of St. Osyth to the Priory of 
Blythburgh, and went to the Crown on the dissolution of the religious 
houses. It was included in the grant of 1538 of Blythburgh Priory to 
Sir Arthur Hopton, and passed on his death to his son and heir Sir Owen 
Hopton, the Lieutenant of the Tower of London. The manor in 1597 
was vested in Henry Gawdy and Henry Warner who held their first Court 
this year. Their holding was probably as trustees, for in 1652 we find 
Thomas Bacon and Robert Brewster mentioned as trustees of Sir Robert 
Brooke during the minority of Robert his son, also holding a first Court. 
The manor subsequently devolved in a like course with the main manor. 

Westwood Manor. 

There seems to be some doubt as to whether this was ever held as a 
separate manor, but apparently Michael de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, died 
seised of it in 1415, when it passed to his son and heir Michael de la Pole, 
who a few months later was slain at the Battle of Agincourt, and was 
succeeded by his brother William de la Pole. 

The manor seems to have been vested in the Sir John Hopton who 
founded a chantry at Blythburgh and died in 1489. Davy makes the 
next lord Arthur Hopton, who he states was the son and heir of John Hopton. 

' Vol. ii. p. 144. 



BLYTHFORD. 17 

He probably, however, means Sir William Hopton who was Custos of 
Dunwich and married Margaret, daughter and heir of Sir Roger VVentworth, 
of Nettlestead. 

He was probably succeeded by his son Sir George Hopton, who died 
apparently the following year, a fact which seems to be supported by the 
pedigree of the Hoptons given by Suckhng in his History of Suffolk.' It 
is not clear how this manor passed amongst the Hoptons, but it certainly 
did become vested in Sir Owen Hopton, the son of Sir Arthur, and passed 
to the Brookes and ultimately to the Blois family as did the main manor 
and in a like course of descent.'' 

BLYTHFORD MANOR. 

Blythford Manor was held in the Confessor's time by Edwin a freeman 
with 2 carucates of land, and by the time of the Great Survey it had passed 
to Goodrich the Steward, who held it in demesne as tenant in chief. There 
were 5 villeins, 3 bordars, 2 serfs, 2 ploughteams in demesne and 3 belong- 
ing to the men, an acre of meadow, wood for 160 hogs, i rouncy, and 4 
beasts. 

A church was then standing in the parish endowed with 12 acres of 
glebe. By the time of the Norman Survey a mill had been erected, and 
there were 9 beasts, 17 hogs, and 3 sheep, and the value, which had con- 
tinued the same from Saxon times, was 40s. 

The village was a league long and a league broad, and paid in a gelt 
3ji. Goodrich had the soc.^ 

The manor not long after the Conquest passed into the family of De 
Criketot, and was held of the Lords De Munchensy. Ralph de Criketot 
held the lordship in the time of Hen. H. and on his death about 1240 it 
passed to his widow Avicia who held it as part of her dower. In 1240 
a fine was levied between her and Simon de Criketot of a 3rd part of two 
knights' fees in Blythford as the inheritance of Ralph de Criketot, her 
deceased husband, granted in dower to Avicia, she releasing all rights in other 
lands. 

Simon de Criketot succeeded to Ralph, subject toAvicia's dower, and 
on his death his widow Felicia had,like Avicia, some difficulty as to her dower. 
It appears she re-married Hugh de Bavent, and they sued for and recovered 
a 3rd part of the manor against Warin de Munchensy of the inheritance 
of Simon de Criketot her late husband held in socage of Nicholas de Boteler.* 

Prior to this, however, Thomas de Craven seems to have had some 
interest, for in 1266 he had free warren in the manor granted him ; and 
Davy asserts that he was then lord and that WiUiam de Rothing and 
Ralph de Rothing were lords in 1275. The MS. of the author of the Magna 
Britannia states that in 1281 Thomas de Bavent was lord. 

Suckling states in a vague manner (having gathered his information 
from the Hundred Rolls) that the families of Rothing and Craven had 
interests here. William de Rothing did certainly claim free warren in 
Blythford Manor, but he does not seem to have established his claim. = 

' Vol. ii. p. 137. ' Dom ii. 3556. 

° See Fines 1585, Edmund Hall and others * Blomefield's Norf. 

V. Sir Owen Hopton and others. ^ H.R. ii. 

Easter, 27 Eliz. ; 1592, Robert 

Broke v. Arthur Hopton and others. 

Fine, Trin. 34 Eliz. 



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THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 



The matter is not very clear, but on the death of Simon de Criketot the 
manor, subject to the dower of his widow, passed in 3rd shares to Thomas 
de Craven, WiUiam de Rothing and Ralph de Rothing. Ralph de Rothing 
after the death of Felicia, the widow of Simon de Criketot, sold his 3rd 
to Edmund de Mykelfeld who subsequently acquired the remaining two- 
thirds. 

Edmund de Mikelfield was the son of Hamo de " Miclefeld," and died 
about 1313, when the manor passed to his son Hamo de Mikelfield, and he 
and his wife Matilda levied a fine of the manor in 1316 in which John 
Bacun clerk was deforciant.' On his death the manor went to his son and 
heir John de Mikelfield, who died about 1376 when it passed to his son 
Richard Mikelfield. On Richard's death the manor passed to his widow 
Katherine, who remarried John Smokeshylle, and made her will with the 
concurrence of her husband at the " Manor of Blyforthe " 2nd April, 
1 42 1, which will was proved 26th of the same month and year. 

The pedigree of the Micklefields is rather uncertain — one given in 
the Davy MSS. is this, differing materially from the deduction we have 
given : — 

Hamo de Micklefeld 
9 Edw. I. 

I 
Edmund 
of Blyford, 4 Edw. II. 

de Mickelfield 

I 

John de Micklefield 

I 
Thomas de Micklefield = Anne 



William de Micklefield 
Will 1439. 20th Sept. 

Thomas de Micklefield, 
died before father. 

I 
Richard de Micklefield = Katherine = John 

Will 2nd April, Smokeshylle. 
1421. 



Robert de 
Micklefield 



= Margaret 1478 rel. Rich. 
Calthorp. 



I 
William 



I 
Robert de 
Micklefield. 



John 

m. Alicia, 
d. of John 
Hartley. 

I 
Christopher 
Micklefield. 



Oliver 
m. Agnes. 



William de = Margery d. of R. rel. 
Micklefield I Thomas Caus, of Hayham. 

William 
13 Hen. VII. 
I 
John 16 Hen. VII. 

I 
Bartholomew 

I 
William 11 Henry VIII. 

I 
William. 

Katherine was succeeded by William Micklefield, who by deed dated 
at Henham on the day next after the Feast of St. John the Baptist in 1430 
granted to WiUiam Phelyp, Knt., John Heveningham jun., Knt., William 
Gernham, clerk, Richard Daniel, clerk, WilHam Brasier, clerk, Robert Ban- 
yard de SpectishaU and WiUiam Hoo de Wysette, " his manor called 
Cravenes in Henham with its tenement, woods, pastures, rents &c. and 
all other its appurtenances thereto belonging in the towns of' Henham 
Blythburgh, Bulchamb, Sotherton, Donewych, Wangfield. Revdon Bramn- 
ton, WesthaU and Blyforth." ^ > y , p 



' Feet of Fines, 10 Edw. II. 34. 



BLYTHFORD. 19 

William married Margery, daughter of Thomas and Katherine Caus 
of Hayham, and by his will dated at Henham 7th Nov.' 1439, 
and proved 30th June, 1441% devised his Manor of Blythford and all its 
appurtenances in Blythburgh and elsewhere to Robert Micklefield his 
brother. Robert succeeded and by his will dated 4th April, 1466.^ 
bequeathed " omnia utensilia et res ahas infra cameram suam " in his 
Manor of Blythford to Margaret his wife. 

She was the daughter of WiUiamand sister and heir of John Irmingland, 
Rector of Stiffkey St. John in Norfolk, and widow of Richard Calthorpe of 
Cockthorpe in the same county, where she was buried, having died in 1480.'* 

William Micklefield the son of Robert and Margaret was the next lord. 
He died in 1519 and was succeeded by his son and heir William Micklefield, 
who was the last of this family owning the lordship, as this very year we 
find it in the possession of Thomas Spring.' On Thomas Spring's death in 
1544 the manor passed to his son and heir John Spring. He by his will 
dated 8th June, 1544, charged this manor with certain annuities, but before 
his death, which did not occur until 12th Aug. 1547, namely in 1546, sold 
the manor to Henry Hobart,^ and in 1609 it was vested in Sir Anthony 
Hobart, Knt., who was succeeded in the lordship by Sir Michael Stanhope. 
There is a fine levied of the manor in 1598 by John Cowell and others against 
James Hobart.' 

On Sir Michael Stanhope's death it passed to his daughter and coheir 
Elizabeth, married to George Lord Berkeley, who sold the manor to Sir 
Henry Wood, Bart., of Loudham Park, Treasurer of the Household of the 
Queen Dowager, one of the Council of Queen Catherine and Clerk of the 
Green Cloth, eldest son of Thomas Wood of Hackney. He married ist 
Ann Webb, by whom he had two children who died infants, and 2ndly 
Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Gardner, Recorder of London, and the Suffolk 
estates were in 1671 conveyed to the Earls of St. Albans and Arlington 
and Sir Thomas Clifford and others in trust for the issue of their marriage. 

Mary (Charles the only other child having died an infant) was in- 
tended to be married at the age of 16 to Charles, then bearing the surname 
of Palmer, Earl of Southampton, but subsequently that of Fitzroy, Duke of 
Southampton. At the time of the treaty for this marriage. Sir Henry 
Wood was at the point of death, and by his will, 1671, he appointed his 
estates, in the event of a failure of issue of his daughter, to his brother 
Thomas and his issue in strict settlement, with remainder to his sister 
Dame Mary Chester, widow, and her son Caesar Cranmer of Astwood, Bury co. 
Buckingham, successively for life, with remainder to Henry Cranmer, the 
eldest son of the said Caesar, and the issue of the same Henry, in strict 
settlement with remainder to the testator's sister Elizabeth Webb for life, 
remainder to her eldest son Thomas and his issue in strict settlement, 
remainder to Henry Webb her 2nd son and his issue in strict settlement, 
remainder to Henry Wood, son of testator's uncle Henry Wood of 
Hacklington, co. Lincoln, for hfe, remainder to Francis Wood younger 

' ? 20th Sept. 5 Fines, Thomas Spr5aig v. Edward Brokes 

'He was buried in Wangford Churchyard. and others. Easter, ii Hen.VIII. 

' Proved 27th Feb. 1471. Thomas Spryng and others v. 

' Her Will is dated 20th Feb. 1478, pr. 12th William Woder. Mich. 11 Hen. 

Dec. 1480. VIII. 

' Fine, Mich. 38 Hen. VIII. 
^Fine, Easter, 40 Eliz. 



20 



THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 



brother of Edward and his issue in strict settlement, remainder to the 
testator's right heirs. 

The marriage of Mary Wood with the Duke of Southampton was 
solemnized. Mary died in 1680 and the Duke in 1730/ and there being no 
issue of the marriage the manor devolved upon Charles Cranmer (who 
according to a provision in the will of Sir Henry Wood assumed the name 
of Wood), surviving son of Sir Csesar Cranmer alias Wood by Leha his wife, 
daughter of Charles Peliott Seigneur de la Garde, and the person next in 
remainder under the limitations in the will of his great-uncle Sir Henry 
Wood. 

Charles Wood died in 1743 without issue and without having disposed 
by his will of his share of the reversion of the estate, which thereupon 
descended in moieties to the co-heirs of Mary Cranmer and Elizabeth Webb, 
sisters of the above-mentioned Sir Henry Wood. 

The heirs of Mary Cranmer were Penelope, wife ist of John Prim of 
Covent Garden, surgeon, and 2ndly of Timothy Lee, of Ackworth, co. York, 
clerk; Dorothy, wife of John Robinson, of Cransley,co. Northampton^; and 
Dorothea, wife of Sir Geo. Robinson of Cranford, in the same county, Bart.; 
which Penelope and Dorothy were two of the surviving daughters and co- 
heirs of Sir William Chester, Bart., and which Dorothea was the sole daughter 
and heir of Ehzabeth, wife of John Chester of London, the other daughter 
and coheir (who left issue) of Sir William Chester, grandson and heir of 
Mary Wood, wife of Sir Anthony Chester, Bart., daughter and the only 
child of which there was issue Uving of the above-mentioned Mary Cranmer. 

The heirs of Elizabeth Webb were Susan, wife of Robert Onely; Sir 
John Chapman, Bart., son and heir of Sir William Chapman, Bart., and 
Elizabeth his wife; Francis Chester, son and heir of Thomas Chester and 
Bethiah his wife, and William Brasey son and heir of William Brasey and 
Grace his wife, afterwards wife of Sewarde ; which Susan Onely, Elizabeth 
Chapman, Bethiah Chester, and Grace Brasey were the four daughters 
and only children of whom there was issue living of Thomas Webb alias 
Wood of Kensington, son and heir of the said Elizabeth Wood. 

In 1747 pursuant to a Commission under the Great Seal partition was 
made of Sir Henry Wood's estate, under which this manor was allotted to 
Robert Onely, the only son of Susan and Robert Onely, at whose death 
i^ 1753 without issue it passed to Sir John Chapman of Loudham, son of 
Elizabeth Chapman, the sister of Robert Onely's mother. It was subse- 
quently purchased by John Dresser,^ who dying at Blythford Hall, i8th 
Feb. 1822, devised the same to his nephew the Rev. Jeremy Day, rector of 
Hetherset, the son of his (Dresser's) sister Sarah, and it now belongs to 
Richard Jeremy Day. 

The Arms of Wood : Argent, on a chevron, Azure, between three pehcans 
Sable, vulning themselves, proper, as many cinquefoils of the first. Of 
Chapman : Party per chevron. Argent and Gules, a crescent counter- 
changed. Of Mykefeld or Mickleford : Arg. a cross engrailed Sab. 
guttee d'or. 



■ The statement therefore often made that 
on Mary's death the manor passed 
to Thomas Wood, Bishop of Lich- 
field and Coventry, brother of Sir 
Henry Wood, and on his death with- 
out issue in 1692 passed to the 
Csesar Cranmer who died in 1707 
cannot be regarded as correct, 



further than that the estate in 
remainder so passed, assuming as is 
supposed that the Duke of South- 
ampton held the manor as tenant 
by the curtesy during his life. 

' Her sixth share was included in a settle- 
ment dated 25th June, 1745. 

^ He was born at Laxfield 20th May, 1746. 




BRAMFIELD. 21 

BRAMFIELD. 

jN the Confessor's time Bramfield was the estate of Mamy the 
Swarthy, with 7 carucates of land, and was at the time of 
the Great Survey held by Alan, Earl of Richmond, in 
demesne. 

The manor was one of those 442 manors which the Earl 
received from the Conqueror (whose daughter Constance he 
had married) for his conduct at the battle of Hastings. 
In Saxon times there were 24 villeins, 5 bordars, 4 serfs, 4 plough- 
teams, 10 belonging to the men, wood for 300 hogs, 7 acres of meadow, 
I rouncy, 8 beasts, and the value was 8 pounds. The King and the Earl 
had soc. The value had fluctuated considerably, and after having been 
valued at £16, then £1$, by Domesday times it had come down to 13s. 4^. 

By this time the villeins had increased to 35, and the bordars to 7, 
while the serfs after having been reduced to one had disappeared altogether. 
The ploughteams had been 3, but had risen again to 4, the rouncy had 
departed, but there were 24 hogs and 30 goats. The manor was a league 
long and another broad, and paid in a gelt 3f i. There' was also a church 
with 28 acres of free land, and half a ploughteam valued at 3s.' Suckhng 
mistakes the contraction of Domesday Survey, and says" half a carucate," 
not half a ploughteam. 

Another holding here, that of Earl Alan, was of 2 acres, formerly held 
by a freeman under Aluric's commendation, being included in the valuation 
of Kettleburgh, is found under Loes Hundred in the Great Survey.^ 

Bramfield Manor. 

In 1269 this was held by John, son of Alexander de Vallibus (or de 
Vaux), who had a grant of market and fair that year,' and of free warren 
here the following year.'* 

The author of the Magna Britannia states from a MS. that in the 
9Edw. I. Nicholas de Segrave held the manor, a statement adopted both 
by Suckhng and Page, but it seems extremely doubtful. 

The probability is that a later period would be more correct for the 
time of the holding of the lordship by Nicholas de Segrave. It seems clear 
that on the death of John de Vallibus in 1288 the manor passed to his 
eldest daughter and coheir Petronilla, who had married De Nerford. The 
manor then passed to William de Rothinge, and on his death in 1300 to his 
son and heir Ralph de Rothinge. Nicholas de Segrave seems to have been 
lord at the beginning of the reign of Edw. II., after which the manor passed 
to Walter de Norwich, one of the Barons of the Exchequer, who in 131 1 had 
a grant of free warren, = and died in 1326, leaving Sir John de Norwich his 
son and heir. 

On the Close Rolls appears a lease made in 1329 by Sir Henry de Harn- 
huUe to Sir John of the manor (except woods) for life at a rent of £2$ for 
ID years, and afterwards of £40, and also a deed as to the rent, and providing 
that Sir Henry shall have sufficient " easements " of the house if he stay in 
the manor. 

In 1330 we meet with a fine of the manor, with the manors of Melles 
and Dalhnghoo, by Sir John de Norwich and Margaret his wife against 

■ Dom. ii. 292^. ■• Chart. Rolls, 55 Hen. III. 10. 

' Dom. ii. 294. ^ Chart. Rolls, 5 Edw. II. 44. 

' Chart. Rolls, 54 Hen. III. pt. i. 3. 



22 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

Remigius de Hedersete, parson of Hengham Church, and Walter de Ther- 
stone, parson of Sculthorp Church.' 

A fine was levied of a fourth part of the manor in 1341 by Sir Henry de 
HarnhuUe against John Fraunceys of Stradenfeld and John de Irland.^ 

Sir John de Norwich died in 1361, and the lordship is said to have been 
settled on the college at Raveningham, afterwards transferred to Mettingham 
College by his grandson. Mr. Suckhng points out that a moiety could only 
have been given, for Sir John's wife Margaret held a moiety at the time of 
her death, as appears from the Escheats in 1366, with remainder to Walter, 
her, and Sir John's son and the heirs male of his body.^ 

In 1372 Sir John, the son of the last Walter, granted to trustees after 
the death of his mother his manor, and died shortly afterwards seised of 
the manor,* when it descended to Katharine de Brews, daughter of Thomas 
de Clavering, his cousin, and she in 1375 confirmed the grant made by her 
ancestors to Raveningham College.' 

With Mettingham College, to which the manor was transferred from 
Raveningham, it continued until the dissolution, when, 14th April, 1542, 
Hen. VIII., granted it, amongst the other possessions of the college, to Sir 
Anthony Denny, one of his Privy Council. He died 5th Sept. 1549, and by 
an inquisition taken at Bury i6th April, 1550, it was found that he had died 
seised of the manor held of the King in chief, and that Henry was his son 
and heir.^ 

Henry Denny sold the manor in 1563 to Sir Nicholas Bacon. ^ He 
received a grant of arms from Sir Gilbert Dethick, Knt. Garter, 12th Feb. 
1568, and from this it appears that he was of the eighth generation in direct 
descent from John Bacon, second son of Sir Edmund Bacon, Knt., and heir 
to Dame Margery his mother, who was daughter and heir of Robert Quap- 
lode, and it was accordingly " granted unto him and his posterity to bear 
two several coats of arms quarterly, the first for Bacon, Gules on a chief 
silver, two mullets Sable ; the second for Quaplode, Barry of six pieces gold 
and azure a bend gules," and for a crest " on a Torce silver and gules a 
Bore passant ermine manteyled, azure doubled gold." He died in 1578-9, 
when the manor passed to Edward Bacon, the 3rd son^ by his ist wife 
Jane, daughter of William Fermley, of West Creting. Edward was admitted 
a member of Gray's Inn in 1566, and was called upon to show by what title he 
held the manor in 1580. ^ 

This same year he had Hcence to ahen the manor to Humphrey Dorsett 
to the use of the said Edward Bacon and Robert Bacon and their heirs. 
Edward Bacon was of Shrubland Hall in right of his wife Helen, daughter 
and heir of Thomas Littel of the same place, and of Bray in the county of 
Berks, by Elizabeth his wife, daughter and coheir of Sir Robert Litton of 
Knetworth in the county of Hertford, Knt." 

' Feet of Fines, 4 Edw. III. 9. ■" Both Edward Bacon, and his wife Helen, 

' Feet of Fines, 15 Edw. III. 5. who died in 1646 and was buried 

3 Harl. 5193. 22nd July, were interred in Barham 

'■ I. P.M., 48 Edw. III. 52. Church. Inscriptions are given in 

s I.P.M., 8 Rich. II. 85. East Anglian Notes and Queries, 

' I.P.M., 4 Edw. VI. 105. N.S., iv., 49. The inscription states 

' Fine, Trin. 5 Eliz. ; Hil. 6 Eliz. vol. 5. that Edward Bacon died 8th Sep- 

' See Shrubland Manor, Barham in Bos- tember, 1618, whereas the register 

mere and Claydon Hundred. gives the date as 7th and the burial 

' M. 22 Eliz. Pas. Rec. Rot. as the 17th. 



BRAMFIELD. 23 

Dying 7th Sept. 1618, Edward Bacon was succeeded by his 2nd son 
Philip Bacon, who was admitted to Gray's Inn 26th Feb. 1607-8, and died 
26th July, 1635. By an inquisition taken at Bury 2nd Oct. 1635, upon the 
death of this Phihp, he was found to have died seised of the manor, and 
also of " Brokehall " held of the King in chief by the tenth part of a 
knight's fee and 40s. rent. 

The manor afterwards became vested in the Rous family of Henham 
Hall, and was held by Sir John Rous, Bart., in 1715. He died in 1730, 
from which time the manor has passed in the same course as the Manor of 
Henham in this Hundred, and is now vested in the present Earl of Strad- 
brooke. 

Court Rolls of the Manor 5 Hen. V. will be found in the Pubhc Record 
Office.' 

Brook Hall Manor. 

So called from its old manor house built near the banks of a rivulet 
which, intersecting the village, flows under D'Uffords Bridge at Wenhaston, 
and falls into the Blythe just above the ruins of Blythburgh Priory. The 
only approach to this mansion in former days was up the water course 
from which it derived its name.^ The title to this manor is practically the 
same as to the main manor, in fact, the title of the manor of Bramfield is 
now " Bromfield cum Brook Hall alias Stonhams." An extent of the manor 
will be found in a register formerly belonging to Mettingham College, and 
to which Mr. Suckling refers as lately in the possession of Peter de Neve. 

The estate formerly belonging to the manor was many years ago 
alienated from it, and in 1720 belonged to one Robert Watts, of Bury, from 
whence it passed to Francis Stray of the same place, and in 1801 was 
purchased by Thomas Page. 

Mr. Suckling, giving a description of the old hall from a drawing in 
the possession of the above-mentioned Robert Watts, says, " It has a 
community of character with the brick mansions erected in this county 
during the latter part of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Two gables, projecting 
from the extreme angles of the front, flank a central porch which gave 
access to the great hall which was here of ample dimensions and 
picturesque effect, being forty feet in length by thirty-two in breadth, 
and rising to the entire height of the mansion." 

He adds that the old house was taken down in 1805, when a modern 
mansion, called Brook Hall, was erected about a mile northwards of the 
ancient site, and also that in the old house resided Arthur Coke, third son 
of Sir Edward Coke, Knt., Lord Chief Justice of England, who lies buried 
with his wife beneath a sumptuous monument of marble in the chancel 
of Bramfield Church. 

An extent and list of the rentals of Bramfield Manor, and also of this 
Manor of Brook Hall in 1478 and 1489, will be found amongst 
the Stowe MSS. in the Brit. Mus.,^ and a Register of Deeds of Sir 
Nicholas Bacon relating to both the manors in 1562-1578, will be found 
amongst the Additional MSS. in the same depository." 

The manor is included in two fines levied by Sir Nicholas Bacon, one 
against Richard Spryngham and others in 1563,5 and the other against 
Richard Denny in 1564.^ 

' P.R.O. Portfolio, 203-7. ■* Add. 25590. 

' Suckling, vol. ii. p. 171. = Fine, Trin. 5 Eliz. 

3 Stowe, 934. ' Fine, Hil. 6 Eliz, vol. 5. 




24 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

BRAMPTON. 

MANOR was held here in the time of Edward the Confessor 
by Padda, and at the time of the Domesday Survey by 
Robert de Curcun under Roger Bigot. There were two 
carucates of land in Saxon times, with 4 villeins, 4 bordars, 
and I serf, but in Norman days 2 villeins and 6 bordars ; 
also 2 ploughteams in demesne and the like belonging to 
the men, wood sufficient for 6 hogs, i acre only of meadow, 
14 hogs and 80 sheep, valued at 40s. 

To this manor were added 9 freemen and half with 100 acres. Padda 
had employed 5 ploughteams on his demesne lands, but the Norman owner 
only 3. The value of this last holding was 12s., and the King and the Earl 
Bigot divided the soc' There were two other estates in Brampton at the 
time of the Domesday Survey. To one of them, that of Ralph Bainard, 
the patronage of the church was attached. 

In the Confessor's time 11 freemen held here 2 carucates of land and 
60 acres, but by the time of the Survey there were 10 freemen only. 

In Saxon times the estate had 2 villeins, 8 bordars, 9 ploughteams, 
wood sufficient for 20 hogs, and 2 acres of meadow, valued at 30s., but by 
the time of the Survey the villeins had been reduced to one, and the 
ploughteams to 7, but the number of the bordars had increased to 17, while 
the value of the whole had risen to 40s. The King and the Earl held the 
soc by exchange. 

On the same property a socman had 2 carucates of land with 2 villeins, 
8 bordars, and 3 ploughteams. He had wood sufficient for the support 
of 3 hogs and 2 acres of meadow, valued at 30s. The church was endowed 
with 16 acres of glebe the value of which was put at ibd. The King and the 
Earl had the soc' 

The remaining estate in Brampton was retained by William the Con- 
queror, and was in the hands of William de Noers, one of his stewards. 
It had been held in Saxon days by Turstan a free Saxon under the pro- 
tection of Stigand, Archbishop of Canterbury. The holding consisted of 
20 acres of land, 2 bordars, formerly i ploughteam, but at the time of the 
Survey half a team only, half an acre of meadow, wood for three hogs, one 
rouncy or draught horse, two hogs, and 12 sheep, valued at 4s. There was 
here besides, a freeman under him with 2 acres of land valued at 6d.^ 

Brampton Manor. 

The manor in 1270 belonged to Alan de Wymundale, who that year 
obtained a charter to hold a market and granting him free warren.* In 
1281 the lordship was held by Robert de Seafield. 

In 1306 the manor and advowson seem to have been in Walter, Bishop 
of Coventry and Lichfield, for we find him levying a fine this year against 
Adam de Hodeleston.^ In the time of Edw. III. the manor was in the 
Cliff family, and we find the following among the Feet of Fines : 

[1328] Edmund son of Robert dil Clyf v. John de Peyto and Alice 
his wife of a moiety of the manor.*^ 

' Dom. ii. 3316- * Chart. Rolls, 55 Hen. III. 10. 

' Dom. ii. 414. 5 peet of Fines, 29 Edw. I. 29. 

3 Dom. ii. 388. ' Feet of Fines, 2 Edw. III. 23. 



BRAMPTON. 



25 



[1339.] Edmund son of Robert del Clyf and Katherine his wife v. 
Augustine de Clyf, parson of Brampton Church and John Paf chaplain of 
the manor and advo^\'son of the Church in Brampton.' 

[iz|38.] WilUam de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, John Belley, and John 
Wareyn v. John Gramond and Isabella his wife of the manor called Brampton 
Hall, and advowson with appurtenances in Brampton, Westhall, Redisham, 
Shadingfield, and Stoven.' 

[1442.] Wilham de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, John Belly, and John 
Wareyn v. William Wood and Margaret his wife, of the manor called 
Bramptonshalle and advowson with appurtenances in Brampton, Westhall, 
Redisham, Shadingfield, and Stoven, and the advowson of the Church of 
those manors. 3 

Another Augustine de Chff presented to the church in 141 1 and William 
de la Pole in 1435. From the above entries it is clear that in the time of 
Hen. VI. the manor was held by the Belley or Bolley family, and John 
BoUey by his will dated 29th Dec. 1451, leaves the " manor of Brampton 
alias Brampton Hall in Suffolk," to be sold, when it was purchased from 
the executors by the Townshends of Rainham, co. Norfolk. 

The manor was about the year 1470 vested in Sir Roger Townshend, 
a lawyer and Justice of the Common Pleas. He married Anne, daughter 
and coheir of Sir William de Brewse, Knt., of Wenham Hall, and had issue 
six sons and four daughters. The manor was in his time said to be worth 
£4, and was held of William Playter as of the Manor of Uggeshall by fealty 
and 2s. rent. 

John Hoo, of Blyburgh, and Robert Payne, of Westhall, who were 
seised in fee, probably as trustees, enfeoffed Sir Roger Townshend and 
others to the use of the said Sir Roger in fee. 

In 1516 a fine was levied of the manor by Sir John Hey don and others 
against Sir Roger Townshend and Anne his wife.* 

Sir Roger by will devised the manor to Eleanor his wife for life, with 
remainder to Thomas Townshend their son in tail. Thomas Townshend 
appears to have been the 5th son, from whom descended the Townshends 
of Wretham. By an Inquis. 10 Hen. VII. [No. 1136] it was found that Sir 
Roger died 9th Nov. 1493, and that Roger Towneshend aged 16 was his 
son and heir. 

Notwithstanding the devise in the will to which he does not refer, 
Suckling, and also Davy, seem to consider, from the fact of the presenta- 
tions to the Church being made by a Roger Townshend up to 1577 that 
Roger inherited the manor, and dying without issue it passed under his 
will dated in 1550, to his great nephew Sir Roger, the son of Richard (by 
Catherine his wife, 3rd daughter and coheir of Sir Humphrey Brown 
of Ridley in Cheshire, a Justice of the Common Pleas), who died seised in 
1552, he (Richard) being the son of Sir John Townshend of Brampton (by 
Eleanor daughter of Sir John Heydon of Baconsthorpe in Norfolk, K.B.), 
who died 4th Aug. 1540,= the testator's brother. 

The devisee, Sir Roger Townshend, was engaged in the English fleet 
against the Spanish Armada in 1588, and on the 26th July of the same year 
was knighted at sea by Charles Howard, the Lord High Admiral. He does 
not seem to have retained the manor to the time of his death, for in 1583 we 
meet with a fine of it levied by Stephen Drury against him,^ and three years 



' Feet of Fines, 13 Edw. III. i. 
' Feet of Fines, 16 Hen. VI. 6. 
^ Feet of Fines, 21 Hen. VI. 5. 

D 



- Fine, Hil. 8 Hen. VIII. 
= I. P.M. 33 Hen. VIII. 127. 
^ Fine, Easter, 25 Eliz. 



26 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

later with another fine levied by John Aylmer, Bishop of London, against 
him, under which the manor passed from the Townshend family.' In 1590 
it is stated that John Aylmer, Bishop of London, and Samuel Aylmer were 
joint lords and patrons, and in an inquis. p.m. taken at Bury 13th Dec. 1599, 
the Bishop was found to have died 5th July 36th Enz.[i594] seised of the 
manor valued at £10 held of Thomas Playters as of his Manor of Uggeshall 
by the fourth part of a knight's fee. Davy makes William Leman lord 
in 1608, but Suckhng appears more accurately to state that Sir John 
Leman held the manor in 1606. 

At this date he held the position of Sheriff of London, and in 1616 
that of Lord Mayor. He was a native of SaxUngham near Holt in Norfolk, 
and a member of the Fishmongers' Company, and Pennant in his " London " 
states that " in 1617 a considerable number of Lords, and others of the 
King's most Honourable Privy Council, his Majesty then being in Scotland, 
after hearing a sermon preached at St. Mary Spittle, London, by the Rev. 
Dr. Page, of Deptford, afterwards rode with Sir John Leman, fishmonger, 
then Lord Mayor of London, to his house near Bilhngsgate, where they were 
entertained with a most splendid dinner. In honour of Sir John, and his 
brother fishmongers, Anthony Monday wrote his ' Chrysonaleia, or Golden 
Fishing.' " In the same year a curious poem on the subject of the Gun- 
powder plot was dedicated to Sir John as " being the high-topt cedar of 
Lebanon, chief magistrate of the famous city of London." This remark- 
able production is entitled " Mischief's Mysterie ; or Treason's Masterpiece, 
the Powder Plot, invented by hellish malice, prevented by Heavenly mercy ; 
truly related, and from the Latin of the learned and Reverend Doctour 
Herring, translated and very much dilated by John Vicars. "- 

Mr. Suckling mentions that there is a three-quarter portrait of Sir John 
Leman in his magisterial robes, and wearing the gold chain of civic presi- 
dency, in the dining-room at Brampton Hall, most probably painted during 
the year of his mayoralty, and that the Rev. George Orgill Leman, his 
representative, was at the time he (Suckling) wrote also in possession of the 
knight's gold thumb-ring and his silver seal. 

Sir John Leman seems to have purchased the manor from Samuel 
Aylmer, for Samuel did not die until 1635, and Sir John Leman apparently 
held as early as 1606. 

By an inquisition taken at Beccles 17th Sept. 1633, Sir John Leman 
was found to have died 26th March, 7 Car. I. [1632]^ seised of the manor 
and advowson held of the Manor of Uggeshall by fealty and 2s. rent, and 
valued at 60s. He left no issue, and the manor passed (probably by will) 
to Thomas, the 3rd son of his brother WiUiam, who married Margaret, 
daughter of John Smith of Parkfield in Laxfield, and died in 1640, when 
both manor and advowson passed to his son Thomas, who died in 1643 
without issue, when they went to his brother John, married to Ann, daughter 
of Thomas Weld of Wymondham. John Leman presented to the Hving 
in 1662, and died in 1670, when the manor and advowson passed to his son 
Thomas Leman, who married Eleanor, daughter of Robert Cuddon of 
Shadingfield, and presented to the church in 1681. He died in 1717, and 

' Fine, Easter, 28 Eliz. curious tract is embellished with 

" London : printed by L. Griffin dwelling in various woodcuts. 

the Little Olde Bayley, neare the ^ Hjg will is dated 8th July 1631 See 
signe of the King's Head. In two also Charsfield in Loes Hundred, 

parts, 1617. This scarce and 



BRAMPTON. 27 

was succeeded by his only son Robert Leman, High Sheriff of Suffolk, in 
1744. 

Robert Leman married Mary, daughter of Nunn Pretyman, and 
presented to the church in 1728 and 1742. He died in 1778, aged 80, having 
had three children — a son Thomas who died in 1757 in his father's lifetime, 
without issue ; Robert Leman, D.D., rector of Pakefield, who died un- 
married in 1799 ; and Mary, of Bury St. Edmunds, the eventual heir of 
her father. As her brother Robert did not die till 1799 it seems strange 
that she should have presented to the church in 1793, but such is the 
fact. 

Suckhng gives the date of the death of Robert Leman the father as 1778, 
but Davy put the date as 1788, and makes him to be succeeded not by his son 
Robert, but directly by his daughter Mary. She died in 1807 at the age 
of 82, and left the bulk of her property to her cousin, the Rev. Naunton 
Thomas Orgill, Rector of Worlingham and Brampton, who was the son of 
Susan, the 3rd daughter of her father's sister Sarah, which Sarah had 
married a William Leman of Beccles, the great-great-great-grandson of 
William Leman, the brother of Sir John Leman, the original purchaser of 
the manor. The devisee of Mary Leman assumed the name of Leman 
by royal licence in 1808. He married Henrietta Jane, daughter of the 
Rev. Sir Wm. Anderson, Bart., of Lea, co, Lincoln, and died 31st Jan. 1837, 
leaving his widow, who survived till 1843, and presented with others to 
the Church in 1837. 

On the death of his mother in 1837, the manor and advowson became 
vested in her eldest son, the Rev. George Orgill Leman, of Brampton 
Hall. He died without issue, when the manor and advowson passed to his 
brother Robert Orgill Leman, who married Isabella Camilla, daughter of 
Sir William Jervis Twysden, 7th Bart., and died in 1869, when they passed 
to his eldest son Naunton Robert Twysden Leman, the present lord. He 
marrie'd in 1869 Rosa EUzabeth, 5th daughter of the Rev. John Alexander 
Ross, Vicar of Westwell, Kent, and has issue a son Robert Naunton, born 
1870. 

Suckling mentions that at a Court held for the manor 13th Oct. 1701, 
the following presentment was entered : " We present John Leman of 
Brampton, for not repairing the comen path leading from Roger Flowers 
to Brampton church " ; but adds that as to whether the lord of the manor 
is bound to keep the paths leading to the church in repair is uncertain, at 
least in his opinion. 

Arms of Leman : Az. a fesse betw. 3 dolphins embowed Arg. 

Hales Hall Manor. 

This is a small manor held of the Manor of Brampton, which took its 
name from Walter Hales, who in 1325 had free warren here.' The manor 
was composed of the land held by Ralph Baynard at the time of the 
Domesday Survey. It subsequently passed to the family of Duke. The 
Dukes had long resided at Brampton ; in fact, as early as the time of Edw. Ill, 
Walter Duke was described as of this place. He was probably the great- 
great-grandson of Roger Duke, t. Rich. I., and grandson of Roger Duke, 
four times in succession Lord Mayor of London 1227-1230. He left a son 

■ Charts Rolls, 19 Edw. 11. 22. 



28 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

Roger' and Roger a son Robert. This Robert Duke was living in the time 
of Hen. VL, and a fine of this manor and that of Shadingfield Hall Manor 
was levied in 1428 by William Phehp, Thomas Kerdeston, John Shardelowe, 
William Bernham clerk, Robert Cavendish, John Manning, Robert Rous, 
WiUiam Yelverton, Richard Pettagh clerk, Reginald Rous, Robert Baum- 
yard, Robert Crane, and WiUiam Payn, against Robert Duke of the manor 
and lands in Brampton, Shadingfield, Ryngesfield, Eleigh, Ilketishall, Welyng- 
ham Stoven, Weston juxta Beccles, Magna and Parva Redisham." 

On the death of this Robert Duke, the manor passed to his son and 
heir John Duke. On his death it devolved upon his son and heir Thomas 
Duke, who was hving in 1494,^ and it passed from him to his son and heir, 
William Duke. A fine was levied of the manor in 1536 against this WiUiam 
Duke by Thomas " Blanerhasett " clerk." 

William Duke married Thomasine, daughter of Sir Edward Jenney of 
KnottishaU, and had issue a son George, who married Anne, daughter of 
Sir Thomas Blennerhasset, of Frense in Norfolk, Knt., and died in 1551, 
leaving issue Edward Duke, who married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Ambrose 
Jermyn of Rushbrook, after whom their son Ambrose was called. Edward 
Duke levied a fine of the manor in 1562,= and died 20th April, 1598, when 
the manor passed to his son Ambrose, who married Elizabeth, daughter and 
coheir of Bartholomew Calthorp, and died in 1610, leaving a son. Sir Edward 
Duke,* who was created a Baronet by Charles II., i6th July, 1661. 

Suckling, quoting from Blomefield, says that Sir Edward Duke, 
the ist Baronet, married^ Catherine daughter of Sir Thomas Holland, of 
Wortwell Hall, Knt., and in 1631, by the name of Edward Duke of Benhall, 
Esq., sold the manor to Sir William Playters of BiUingford, in trust for 
Sir William Le Neve, Knt. Sir Edward Duke probably married more 
than once, as he had 29 children, none of whom survived except his son 
and successor. Sir John ; and Ellen, daughter and coheir of John Pan ton 
of Brunslip, co. Denbigh, is certainly stated to have been Sir Edward's wife, 
and the mother of Sir John. 

Davy however, does not give any sanction to the sale by Sir Edward 
Duke. He states that on the death of Sir Edward in 1670, the manor 
passed to his son and heir, Sir John Duke,' 2nd Bart., and on his death in 
1705 passed to his son and heir Sir Edward Duke, 3rd Bart. 

Sir Edward Duke, 3rd Bart., married Mary, daughter and sole heir of 
Thomas Rudge of Stafford, and died without surviving issue 25th Aug. 
1732, when the title became extinct. 

Davy does not say what happened to the manor on the death of the 
3rd Duke, Baronet, but states that in 1764 William Chapman of Loudham 
was lord, and after him, Without giving a date, Thomas Fan, of Beccles. 



' His wife Alice, made her Will dated 1437, ■'Fine, Mich. 28 Hen. VHI. 

and proved 28th July in the same ' 2nd May, 4 Eliz. 19. 

year. She directs her body to be «As to the Duke family, see Manor of 

buried in the parish church of St. Benhall, in Plomesgate Hundred. 

Peter the Apostle at Brampton. 'See Manor of Benhall, in Plomeseate 
' Feet of Fines, 6 Hen. VI. 26. Hundred. 

3 See Manor of Brosyard, Shadingfield, in * lb. 

Wangford Hundred. 




BULCHAMP. 29 

BULCHAMP. 

T the time of the Norman Survey Bulchamp was returned 
as two manors. One had been held by Alaa, a freeman in the 
Confessor's time, under the protection of Manny, the pre- 
decessor of Robert de Todeni, and comprised 90 acres of 
land, with 2 villeins and 3 bordars and a half. One plough 
was kept in the demesne land, and one by the tenants. 
There were 3 acres of meadow, wood for 100 hogs, 12 hogs, 
as many sheep, and 40 goats. It had been granted by the Conqueror to 
Ralph Guader, Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk, but on his banishment was 
bestowed on Roger Bigot, who held it as tenant in chief of the King, with 
Robert de Vallibus as a sub-tenant. It was a league long, and half a league 
broad, and paid in a gelt ij^.' 

The other manor was small, but returned as a manor among the posses- 
sions of Godric Dapifer. It had in Saxon times been held by Thored, a 
freeman, but he had been dispossessed by the invaders. It consisted of 
30 acres of land, on which were 2 villeins and half a bordar. 

There was i plough besides i acre of meadow, and wood for 40 hogs, 
and its valuation was only 55.== 

Bulchamp Manor. 

In the reign of Rich. I. the lordship of Bulchamp was vested in Galfrid 
Capra, and later in Richard de Blumville. In 1267 Thomas de Cravene 
held the manor and had a grant of free warren therein,^ though the descen- 
dants of Robert de Vallibus still retained land here.^ 

The Kerdestons held land here from an early date, and before 
apparently they had the manor, for by a Charter in 1228 King Hen. III. 
granted to William de Kerdeston in perpetuity free warren in his lands in 
this place. 5 

The manor was certainly vested in Walter de Kerdeston, who was one 
of the heirs of John de ValUbus in 1288, and from him passed to Sir William 
de Kerdeston, who was Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1296-7. He 
married Margaret, daughter of Gilbert de Gant or Gaunt, Baron of Folking- 
ham, CO. Lincoln, and was succeeded by his son Roger, who in right of his 
mother was one of the co-heirs of his uncle Gilbert de Gant, Lord Gant, 
who died without issue in 1298. In 1306 Roger received the honour of 
knighthood with Prince Edward by bathing, having his livery of robes and 
all accoutrements relating to the solemnity out of the King's wardrobe. He 
was Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 133 1, and Governor of Norwich Castle. 

The 27th January, 1331-2, he was summoned to Parliament as a Baron. 
He died in 1337,* and was buried in the Abbey of Langly, near his mother, 
leaving a son and successor William de Kerdeston, 2nd Baron, then aged 
30 years. 

Sir Roger also left a widow Maud who had assigned to her by way of 
dower with certain manors in Norfolk, the Manors of Henham and Stratford 
in Suffolk. William distinguished himself in the French wars in 1342 and 1343, 
serving with the men-at-arms and the archers. In 1344 he was again in 
the wars in France, and in the retinue of Robert de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk, 

' Dom. ii. 333. *I.P.M., 16 Edward I. 41. 

' Dom. ii. 356. 5 Confirm. Pat. Rolls, 2 Rich. II. pt. i. 24. 

3 Chart. Rolls, 51 Hen. III. 7. ' I. P.M., 11 Edw. III. 45. Extent. 



30 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

and participated in the victory of Cressy. He died 14th Oct. 1361, seised 
of, amongst other manors, this and the Manors of Stratford and Henham, 
leaving by his first wife two daughters, ist Margaret, who married Sir 
Wilham Tendring, whose son and heir Sir Wilham Tendring left issue 
two daughters Alice, married to Sir John Howard, ancestor of the Dukes of 
Norfolk, and Elizabeth, wife of Simon Fincham ; and 2nd Maud, married 
to John de Burghersh, who had a son John de Burghersh and two daughters, 
ultimately coheirs, Margaret married, ist to Sir John Granville, and 2ndly 
to John Arundel, and Maud, married to Thomas Chaucer (son of the poet, 
Geoffrey Chaucer), who left a daughter Alice Chaucer. 

Sir Wilham de Kerdeston, 2nd Baron, also left a son WiUiam, either, as 
some allege, by his 2nd wife, Alice de Norwich, or by his ist wife, Maud, but 
upon an inquisition made for the rig:ht heir, John son of John de Burghersh 
and of Maud his wife, daughter of Sir WiUiam de Kerdeston by Margaret his 
ist wife, daughter of Sir Edmund Bacon, was found to be such, and had 
accordingly livery of his grandfather's estates. Law suits ensued, it being 
alleged that William de Kerdeston was illegitimate as being bom ante 
sponsalia, and some even made him out to be the son of Alice Norwich, 
his father's concubine. 

Upon a trial at law, the allegation of illegitimacy was confirmed, and 
the King seized the manors and estates. But after some years William 
succeeded in proving his legitimacy in the King's Bench, and recovered 
his father's estates. Amongst the Ancient deeds of the Remembrancer's 
Department of the Exchequer preserved in the Pubhc Record Office is an 
agreement dated in 1371 made between this Sir William de Kerdeston and Sir 
John de Burghershe under which Sir Wilham is to sue out from the King's 
hands hvery of Stratford Manor, which was seized after the death of Sir 
William, son of Sir Roger de Kerdeston, former tenant of the same, without 
hindrance from Sir John, and Sir William was to have also all the manors 
which belonged to the said Sir WiUiam, son of Roger, in co. Norfolk, and 
the Manors of Bulchamp and Henham, with aU the foreign rents belonging 
thereto, and Sir John was to release all his right in Bulchamp and Henham 
Manors. Sir John was to have the Manor of Stratford and advowson of 
the church there.' 

In 1375 and 1381 this Sir WiUiam de Kerdeston was Sheriff of Norfolk 
and Suffolk, and married Cecilia de Brews. He had issue Sir Leonard de 
Kerdeston, Lord of Claxton, 9 Rich. II., who died about 1402, leaving a son, 
Sir Thomas de Kerdeston, who in 1442 granted the manor, and also Henham 
Manor, except the old park and meadow-land caUed " Sk3ninor," and the 
services of certain persons, to Sir John Carbonel, Knt., WiUiam de la Pole, 
4th Earl of Suffolk, and others, no doubt by way of settlement.^ 

The manor is mentioned in an inquis. p.m. of Matilda, wife of Thomas 
Chaucer, in 1436.3 In 1441 Sir Thomas de Kerdeston, Knt., released to 
Wilham de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, and Alice his wife, daughter and heir 
of the said Thomas Chaucer, all his right in the Manors of Bulchamp and 
Henham.* 

In 1446 a fine was levied between Wilham de la Pole, 4th Earl of Suffolk, 
and Ahce his wife, querents, and Sir Thomas de Kerdeston and Phihppa his 
wife, deforciants, of the Manors of Bulchamp and Henham.^ 

■Ancient Deeds, 45 Edw. III. D. 1093. = Feet of Fines, 24 Hen. VI. 18. I.P.M., 

" Ancient Deeds, 10 Hen. V. D. 429. William late Duke of Suffolk 28 

' I.P.M., 15 Hen. VI. 53. Hen. VI. 25. 
<Harl. MSS. 971. 



BULCHAMP. 31 

Sir Thomas de Kerdeston died 3bth July, 1446, and in the Escheat Rolls 
of 1450 the jury found that he did not die seised of these lordships, but 
that William de la Pole, late Duke of Suffolk, and Alice his wife, in her 
right entered and took the profits during the life of Sir Thomas, and that 
AUce, late wife of the said Duke,and Sir John Howard were his next heirs. 

Gage informs us that in 1475 Alice Duchess of Suffolk, died seised of 
these lordships, but the inquisition seems to mention two estates in Devon- 
shire only. By deed in the following year Sir Edward Hungerford released 
them to John de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, the son of Alice, and to Elizabeth 
his wife, sister to Edw. IV. 

On the attainder of Edmund de la Pole, who was beheaded in 1513, 
the lordship appears to have escheated to the Crown, but it is not clear that 
this was the case. Davy states that the manor was held by Sir Terry 
Robsart, Knt., who married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas de 
Kerdiston. Sir Terry Robsart died in 1497, but his widow survived, and 
held the manor till 1536, when it passed to her son and heir. Sir John Rob- 
sart. He had a fine levied against him this same year by Sir Thomas 
Lestraunge and others, probably on the occasion of some settlement,' and 
also another levied against him in 1550 by George Willoughby and others 
apparently on a Hke occasion,' for he died seised of the manor in 1554, 
having married Ehzabeth Scot and left a daughter and heir Amy, married 
to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, to whom the manor passed. 

A fine was levied of the manor by Robert Armiger against Sir Robert 
Dudley and others in 1556.^ 

Davy, however, also states that Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, was 
lord, but this is hardly consistent as the Duke died in 1545. Subsequently 
the manor became vested in Sir John Rous, Knt., who died seised in 1652, 
when it passed to Sir John Rous of Henham Hall, Bart., from whom it has 
descended in the same course as the Manor of Henham in this Hundred to 
the present Earl of Stradbroke. 

Arms of Kerdeston : Gules, a saltier engrailed, Argent. 



' Fine, Mich. 28 Hen. VIII. ^ pine, Easter, 4 Mary. 

' Fine, Mich. 4 Edw. VI. 




32 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

BUXLOW MANOR. 
|HE manor was held in the early part of the thirteenth 
century by John Cordeboef a/. Cordeboff of Earl Richard, by 
the service of one knight's fee. He died in 1250/ when it pro- 
bably passed to his son Hubert de Cordeboef, and from him 
to Thomas, for we find the widow of John sueing this Thomas 
for dower in 1254. Theobald de Leiston and Edmund, Earl 
of Cornwall, held land here, and claimed manorial rights. 
The holding of the latter was a knight's fee partly here and partly in 
Knoddishall. Thomas died in 1280, when the manor passed to his son 
John de Cordeboef. 

The Jury Commissioners impanelled by the Hundred Rolls recorded 
several acts of aggression committed here. They reported that Ralf de 
Grenham, then bailiff of the Earl of Cornwall, and John de Corndebof assumed 
to themselves the right of fixing the assize of bread and ale in Buxlow, which 
privilege belonged to the Manor of Leiston, as it was royal demesne ; and 
that Theobald de Leiston did the same without any warrant. Moreover, 
that the bailiffs of Eye held an unauthorized court, " novum tumum," 
at Buxlow, and elsewhere at their own pleasure, which the King's 
steward was accustomed to hold, and that such procedure was to the great 
injury and inconvenience of the whole country.^ 

John Cordebeof died seised of the manor in 1300. Two years later we 
find it vested in Richard Page, who then exchanged the lordship with Henry, 
son of Hamon of Bithring. The holding of Theobald de Leiston in this 
place seems, in the time of his brother John de Leiston, to have absorbed 
the manor, for this appears to have passed from John to his daughter and 
heir Joan, married to John Bokyll of Friston. From them the manor passed 
to their son and heir William Bokyll, and from him to his son and heir 
John Bokyll, from whom it went to his daughter and heir Maud, married 
in 1435 to John Jenney, who died in 1460. From this time to the death of 
Offiey Jenney in 1670, the manor passed in the same course as the Manor 
of Knottishall in this Hundred. 

On Offiey Jenney's death this manor went to his brother and heir, 
Edmund Jenney, who died in 1694. From him it passed to his son and 
heir Arthur Jenney, who died in 1729, when the manor vested in his son 
and heir Edmund Jenney, and on his death in 1745 passed to his son and 
heir Edmund Jenney, the last of this family having the lordship. The 
manor was purchased from Edmund Jenney by Edward Vernon, who died 
in 1757, when it passed to Henry Vernon of Thurlow, and on his death in 
1776 went to his son and heir John Vernon, of Orwell Park, who died in 1818, 
shortly after which his executors disposed of the manor to John Ayton. 

Suckling states that in the attic room of the Chapter House is a grant 
and confirmation from the Dean and Canons of Cardinal College, Oxford, 
made to WilUam Capon, dean of Wolsey's College at Ipswich, of the manors 
inter alia of Buckeslaw and Peasenhall.' 

Court Rolls of the Manor for the 15-16 Jac. L will be foimd in the Pubhc 
Record Ofi&ce.'* 

Buxlow itself was formerly a distinct parish, but was consoHdated with 
Knoddishall, 22nd Feb. 1721. 

■ I. P.M. 34 Hen. III. File 10 (12) ^ A. 12 C. Jermyn MSS. 

' H.R. ii, " Portfolio, 203, 8. 




CHEDISTON. 33 

CHEDISTON. 

IHE entire parish was held at the time of the Domesday Survey 
by three Norman proprietors — Roger Bigot, Alan Earl of 
Richmond and Bretagne, and Gislebert BalastariuSj or the 
master of the crossbowmen. The estate of the first of these 
magnates was by far the largest, comprising several small 
manors. The details as given in the great Record are as 
follows : One manor was held by Goodwin, a freeman 
under the Queen, with 55 acres in the Confessor's time. There were 2 
villeins and 2 bordars, one ploughteam employed in the demesne, and one 
belonging to the tenants. There was ij acre of meadow, wood sufficient 
to support 30 hogs, and the rest of the stock consisted of 2 beasts, 12 hogs, 
and 20 sheep. The whole was valued at ids. This manor was held by 
Robert de Vallibus under Roger Bigot. Bigot also held 13 acres formerly 
held by Wolsey, a freeman Over whom one who was himself under 
commendation to the predecessor of Robert Malet had half commenda- 
tion, and the Queen of King Edward had the other half in the Confessor's 
time. In the same place a freeman named Anant had 13 acres and another 
freeman named Ulf a like number under commendation to the Queen in 
the Confessor's time. Among them they formerly had i carucate, but at 
the time of the Survey only half a carucate and an acre of meadow, valued 
at 4s., and the King and the Earl had the soc. Edric, a freeman, of whom 
the predecessor of Robert Malet had half the protection, and the Abbot 
of Ely the other portion, in the Confessor's days, held 100 acres for a manor. 
In this lordship were always 2 villeins, and 5 bordars ; one plough on the 
demesne lands ; before the Conquest, the tenants had kept 2 ploughs, but 
at the Survey they employed only one. Here were 3 acres of meadow 
land, wood sufficient to maintain 60 hogs, i beast, 4 hogs, 22 sheep, and 
7 goats. Five parts of the church were appended to this estate, with 16 
acres of glebe ; its value was always 30s. ; and William Malet was seised 
of it, when he went upon the King's service, where he died. Two freemen, 
Ledman and Stanhart, who were under the protection of the King and the 
Queen, also held in the Confessor's time 30 acres for a manor in this village ; 
they had one bordar. Then there was here one plough, with wood for 
20 hogs, and i acre of meadow, valued at 5s. 

Leuric, a free Saxon, hel6 26 acres for a manor in the Confessor's time, 
of whom the predecessor of Baignard had the protection ; here were always 
I villein and 2 bordars, one ploughteam, 3 acres of meadow, wood for 12 
hogs, 2 beasts, 4 hogs, and 20 sheep ; valued at los. Couta, a freeman, 
held 15 acres under the protection of the predecessor of Robert Malet ; 
this estate was valued at 2s., and formerly had half a ploughteam, and 
William Malet was seised of it. 

A freeman, by name Lewin, of whom the predecessor of Robert Malet 
had also the protection, held 14 acres and half a ploughteam. WiUiam, 
his (Malet's) father, was also seised of this property ; valued at 2s. 4^. The 
King and the Earl divided the soc of these estates. The entire village was 
one league in length, and 5 quarantenes in width, and paid ^\d. gelt or land 
tax. It seems that these estates were consolidated into one manor by 
Roger Bigot, because the Survey returns them all as then held under this 
chieftain by Robert de VaUibus, or Vaux.' 

' Dom. ii. 332. 



34 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

The estate of Alan, Earl of Richmond, comprised 80 acres of land, 3 
bordars, 2 ploughteams and a half, 2 acres of meadow, wood for 60 hogs, 
all included in the valuation of the manor, and the Earl had the sac and 
soc' The length was 10 quarantenes and the breadth 15. 

Gilbert Balastarius held here 20 acres, 2 bordars, half a ploughteam 
and half an acre of meadow, with wood sufficient for 6 hogs, valued at 45. 
Gilbert also had i villein, 6 skitel, with 20 acres, and half a ploughteam, 
all included in the valuation of Easton.^ 

The parish in later years was divided into three manors, known as 
Bavents, Wrights, and Hovels. 

Manor of Bavents alias Norton Bavents. 

This was part of the holding of Roger Bigot, and in 1263 was held by 
Hubert de Bavent, who this year had a grant of free warren.^ In 1327 
Edmund Merkeshall, Jeffrey Inglose, and Peter de Madingthorpe were 
deforciants in a fine, and Thomas de Bavent and Ahce his wife querents, 
when a moiety of the lordship of Haynford, in Norfolk, &c., was settled 
on Thomas and Ahce, and the said Thomas in 1339 settled this manor with 
the Manor of Easton Bavent on himself for life ; remainder to William his 
son and Catherine his wife ; remainder to Fehcia his daughter, sister of 
WiUiam, and the remainder to John, son of Thomas of Ulveston ; remainder 
to Richard, son of John, son of Baldwin Bavent ; and in 1346 William 
Bavent and Robert Pavilly were lords. In 1362 Thomas Bavent held this 
manor." 

The manor then passed to Sir Robert Shardelowe, Knt., who died in 
1399, when it passed to Sir George Felbrigg, Knt., John Shardelowe, son of 
Sir Robert, Roger Candish, and Edward, Vicar of Eye, who were no doubt 
trustees, and they appear as lords in 1408. 

Three years later we find Ela, widow of Sir Robert Shardelowe, Knt., 
lady of the manor. Her will is dated in 1437, and her son Sir John Shardelowe, 
Knt., son and heir of Sir Robert, died without issue in 1433, in the lifetime 
of his mother. 5 

In 1547 the manor was held by Ralph Everard, who died this year, and 
was succeeded by his son and heir, Henry Everard. On his death the manor 
passed into the Norton family, and Robert, son of Walter Norton, of Hales- 
worth, and of Jane Purpett his wife, held the same about 1550. He married 
Mary, daughter of Richard Copcott of Pirton, co. Herts., and died seised 
in 1561,^ when the manor passed to his son and heir Walter Norton. In 
1584 we meet with a fine levied of the manor by Henry Everard against 
this Walter Norton.'' Walter Norton married Katherine, daughter of Sir 
Henry Bedingfield, Knt., and dying in 1609, was succeeded by his son and 
heir Henry Norton, who married Anne, daughter of Edward Sulyard, of 
Wetherden, and died in 1638, when the manor went to the trustees of 
Walter Norton, his son and heir, namely, Sir Edward Waldegrave, Knt. 
Robert Mason, of Lincoln's Inn, and Anthony Bedingfield. 

The manor then passed, no doubt by purchase, to the family of Pettus 
and in 1655 Sir John Pettus held the lordship, and is described as of Chedis- 
ton Hall. The family sprung from Thomas Pettus, an eminent and wealthy 

■ Dom. ii. 293. s See Shardelowes Manor, Little Barton in 

= Dom. u. 444&. Lackford Hundred. 

3 Chart. Rolls, 48 Hen. HI. I. * ? before 1583. 

" Suckling, ii. 197. ' Fine, Hil. 26 Eliz. 



CHEDISTON. 35 

citizen of Norwich, who hes buried in St. Edmund's Church, in Lombard 
Street, in London. 

John Pettus of the city of Norwich, son and heir of the above-mentioned 
Thomas Pettus, took to wife a daughter of — Crow, and widow of Simon 
Dethick, and Thomas Pettus, his son and heir, married Christian, the 
daughter of Simon Dethick, of Norfolk, and had with other issue, a son, 
Sir John Pettus, Knt. He married Bridget, daughter and coheir of 
Augustine Curtis, of Honnington, in Suffolk, by whom he had with other 
issue one son, Augustine. Sir John died 9th April, 1613. 

Sir John Pettus was a prominent royalist, and had to compound for 
his estate for the sum of £886. 13s. 4d. 

The manor was between 1666 and 1688 sold to George Fleetwood, and 
from him passed to his widow, Sarah Fleetwood, who held. her first court in 
1696. In 1701 Gustavus Fleetwood was the possessor, and the property 
was sold by his executors in 1722 to \\^alter Plumer, of Gray's Inn. 

^^'alter Plumer died without issue in 1745-6, and was succeeded by his 
brother and heir AA'illiam Plumer, and from him in 1768 it descended to his 
son \\'illiam, who died in 1822, leaving the estate to his widow, Jane 
Plumer, afterwards married to Capt. Lewin, whom she survived and married 
Robert Ward, the author of " Tremaine," &c., who assumed the name of 
Plumer. To this third husband she left the manor, but in 1833 he sold it 
with, divers other manors to George Parkyns. 

Upon investigating the title it was discovered that Mr. Plumer Ward 
had mortgaged the Chediston Hall estate to a chartered company empowered 
to hold a hmited amount of land only, and that this limit having been 
exceeded there had been a forfeiture of the property to the Crown. The 
Crown, however, immediately regranted to Mr. Plumer Ward, who then 
carried out his contract by conveying to Mr. Parkyns. The curious part 
of the matter is that the very grant by the Crown to cure the forfeiture of 
the chartered company was itself illegal, and operated again by way of 
forfeiture to the Crown. The circumstances are mentioned by Davy, and 
also by Mr. Suckling, the latter saying : — 

" In order to explain the cause of the second escheat, it is necessary 
to give a short account of Mr. Parkyns' family. That gentleman's father, 
who was a son of the second Baronet of that name, married, when very 
young, a Miss Levett, of Bunny, in the county of Nottingham, by whom 
he had several children. After some years, differences arose between these 
parties, and in 1772 proceedings were instituted in the ecclesiastical court 
to procure a sentence of divorce, which was subsequently obtained ' a 
mensa et toro.' This exception of divorce places the parties who obtain it 
in this position, that though legally separated neither is capable of con- 
tracting a second marriage during the lifetime of the other. Notwith- 
standing this incapacity, Mr. Parkyns, who was then hving in France, 
married a Mdle. Loussay, by whom he had one son, the late Mr. Parkyns 
of Chediston Hall, and several daughters, one of whom, Marie Claire Parkyns, 
married a Monsieur de la Croix, and still survives. These children were 
consequently illegitimate, and being born out of Great Britain were aliens, 
and incapable by the laws of this kingdom of holding lands in England ; 
so that the conveyance of the Chediston Hall estate to Mr. Parkyns was 
altogether illegal, and operated as a forfeiture of the property to the Crown. 

These circumstances transpired upon Mr. Parkyns' decease, and the 
property in 1845 was seized into the hands of her Majesty. Mr. Parkyns' 
only child having died an infant during his Hfetime, a regrant of the estate 



36 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

was made in favour of his widow and his natural sister, Madame de la Croix, 
Chediston Hall being reserved to the former. Mrs. Parkyns subsequently 
married Thomas Rant, Esq., of a family long seated at Mendham, and they 
are the present residents and proprietors of Chediston Hall."' 

Thomas Rant appears to have held in 1885, but in 1896 the lordship 
was vested in George Durrant and Francis James Ridsdale, who still hold 
as the trustees of the late George Parkyns. They hold, however, on behalf 
of Mrs. Rant and Eugene Francois Louis Leguen de Lacroix, who are benefi- 
cially entitled in equal moieties. 

Chediston Hall was built by WiUiam Plumer, and is a large mansion 
in the Ehzabethan style, standing on an elevation in the park, facing south, 
and ornamented with towers, pinnacles, and an embattled parapet. Mr. 
Suckling says that according to a map of the estate in 1722 the projecting 
wings of the mansion extended further from the body of the building, and 
the area in front was shut in by a high wall, having large iron gates opposite 
to the hall door. Rentals of this manor in 1656, 1691, and 1714 are given 
in the Davy MSS., Blything, vol. i. p. 200. 

Manor of Wrights al. Glemham's. 

This manor also was part of the possessions of Roger Bigot, and in 
the time of Edw. L was held by Sir Richard de Boyland of Brisingham, who 
had a charter of free warren here in 1276, with licence to hold a fair in his 
demesne lands here and in Norfolk. 

In 1315 Richard de Boyland appears to have been lord, and to have 
been succeeded at his death by his son and heir Sir John Boyland, Knt. 

In the time of Hen. VIII. the manor was vested in Sir John Glemham, 
Knt., who died in 1537 ^^^ was succeeded by his son and heir Christopher 
Glemham. Christopher Glemham in 1547 sold the manor to Robert Norton,^ 
from whom it passed in the same course as the Manor of Bavents al. Norton 
Bavents till the time of his great-grandson Walter Norton,^ who inherited 
in 1637. A fine was levied of the manor against him by Edmund Bedingfield 
and others in 1580,+ on the occasion probably of some settlement. 

In 1847 this manor had but two or three free tenants remaining. The 
manor seems to have been known also as Boylands, and we meet with five 
fines levied of Boylands, which probably refer to this manor, or to a manor 
of this name in Chediston. The first was levied in 1515 by Sir Robert 
Brandon and others against John Loveday, and included lands in Chediston, 
Parva Linstead, and Wissett and Cookley.^ The second was levied in 1537 
by Richard Jenour and others against John Jenour and others.'^ The third 
was levied in 1564 by Charles le Grys against Andrew Jenour.^ The fourth 
in 1567 by Robert Stanton against this Charles le Grys.* And the fifth by 
John Pettres (? Pettus) against W. Stanton and others in 1601.9 

Rentals for this manor for 1656, 1690, and 1714 are given in the 
Davy MSS. in the Brit. Mus." Strangely the ist is £1. 15s. M., the 2nd 
£1. i6s. 2d., and the 3rd £1. i6s. 2d. 

' Suckling ii. 199. s pjne, Mich. 7 Hen. VIII. 

' Fine, Easter, i Edw. VI. ' Fine, Hil. 29 Hen. VIII. 

' See Manor of Bavents al. Norton ' Fine, Trin. 6 Eliz. 

Bavents, and Mellis, in Hartismere * Fine, Easter, 9 Eliz. 

Hundred. ' Fine, Mich. 43, 44 Eliz. 

* Fine, Hil. 22 EHz. ■" Blything, vol. i. p. 200. 



CHEDISTON. 37 

Manor of Hovells. 

In the time of Hen. III. this manor was held by Robert Hovel, who was 
dead before 1275. 

It was probably this Hovel's son, Robert Hovel, who is returned in the 
Hundred Rolls as prohibiting the proclamation of the King's command in 
this place. 

" Dlcut qd Robtus Houvelnon pmisit mand. dni Regis fieri in Chediston." ' 

Sir Hugh Hovel was lord in 1287, and in a list of knights made in the 
reign of Edw. II. his name stands first among the Suffolk families, and his 
arms are thus given : " Sir Hugh Hovel, de sable, et une crois de or."^ 

This Sir Hugh was the ancestor of Sir Richard Hovel, Esquire of the 
Body to Hen. V., and is now represented by Lord Thurlow of Ashfield. 

In 1403 the lordship was vested in John Loveday, and in the Loveday 
family apparently remained for many generations, though the family is 
not so much as mentioned by Mr. Suckling in his account of Chediston. 
It is clear that Anthony Loveday was lord in the time of Charles I., and 
dying in 1633 was succeeded by his son and heir Henry Loveday, who died 
the same year, when the manor passed to his son and heir Anthony Loveday. 

A fine was levied of " Ho veil Manor " with appurtenances in Chediston 
in 1564 by Richard Blackhed against William Brome and Ellen his wife.^ 

All the copyholds were enfranchised, and Mr. Parkyns 29th March, 
1 841 -2, purchased the farm of 188 acres attached to the lordship, which is 
now, hke Ba vents, vested in his trustees. 



H.R. ii. ' Fine, Hil. 6 Eliz. 

' Suckling vol. ii. p. 197, citing Lansdowne 
MSS. 855- 




38 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

COOKLEY. 

IILLIAM DE SCOIES held the manor in the time of William 
the Conqueror, it having in this King's predecessor's days 
belonged to Woolrich, a free Saxon. It contained 6 carucates 
of land, 6 villeins, 6 bordars, and i serf, having 2 plough- 
teams in demesne and a hke number belonging to the tenants. 
There was sufficient wood to sustain 8o hogs, 6 acres of 
meadow, i mill, 2 rouncies, i cow, 8 hogs, 7 sheep and 30 
goats, and 2 hives of bees. By the time of the Great Survey there remained 
but two villeins and the 2 rouncies or draught horses seem to have 
disappeared, but the bordars had increased to 11. To the manor belonged 
an alternative presentation to the church described as " half a church," 
which was endowed with only i acre of glebe. Huard de Vernon and Robert 
de ValUbus were enfeoffed of the lordship, the former's portion being valued 
at 50S., and the latter's at 8s. 

It was 14 quarentenes long and 7 in breadth, and paid y\d. in a King's 
gelt.' 

Robert de VaUibus also held a small property of 30 acres under Roger 
Bigot valued at 4s., which Godric had possessed in the Confessor's 
time, he, Godric, being made the joint protector of Ulsin, Roger Bigot's 
predecessor, and his two brothers, the former having a third of the commen- 
dation, and the two brothers the remaining two-thirds. Two bordars, 
I ploughteam, 2 acres of meadow, and wood for 7 hogs completes the 
Domesday enumeration of this holding, of which the King and the Earl 
had the soc.^ 

John de VaUibus^ retained the property of his ancestors here, and in 
1264 obtained a grant of free warren for these lands. There were subse- 
quently three manors in Cookley — those of Cookley, Cookley Grange, and 
Rughagh. Suckling enumerates but the two former. 

Cookley Manor. 

Cookley Manor seems to have belonged to Robert de Ludham, and in 
the early part of the reign of Edw. I. to have passed to the Fressingfields. 
Robert de Ludham had a grant of free warren as late as 1285,'' and amongst 
the Abbreviation of Pleas in 1292^ is a judgment in favour of William de 
Cokeley on a finding that he had not disseised this Robert de Ludham of a 
messuage, 80 acres of land, 20 of wood, 8 of meadow and pasture, and 40s. 
rent in Cookley. The following year Walter, son of Seman de Fresynfeld 
and Leonora his wife, and John their son, levied a fine of the manor, this 
Robert de Ludham being deforciant.^ 

In 1302 the son, John de Fressingfield, had Ucence of free warren, &c., 
in the manor.' 

On the Close Rolls for 1321, we find a Release by Sir John de Fressing- 
field to Sir Walter de Norwich, of Cookley Manor, and all his tenements of 
Ruhage.^ 

Mr. Suckling says " the lordship, however, soon after passed to the 
Huntingfields, for in the 20th of Edw. III. [1346] William de Huntingfield 

' Dom. ii. 353&. s East. 52. 

' Dom. ii. 3336. ' Feet of Fines, 21 Edw. I. 6. 

» See Manor of Barsham, in Wangford ' Chart. Rolls, 30 Edw. I. 37. 
Hundred. ^ Close Rolls, 14 Edw. II." M. 

" Chart. Rolls, 13 Edw. I. 83. 



COOKLEY. 39 

held the Manor of Huntingfield, with the advowsons of the churches of that 
parish and of Cookley, with remainder to William Ufford, Earl of Suffolk, 
and in 1375 William Lord Huntingfield died seised of these advowsons, 
together with those of Petistree and the Priory of Mendham." 

"In 1 38 1 Wilham Ufford in virtue of his remainder presented to the 
rectory of Cookley, which right next devolved on the De la Poles, Michael 
De la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, presenting in 1385. This nobleman being out- 
lawed about 3 years afterwards, his property was granted in 1389, 
probably in trust only, to John WiUiam, Bishop of Salisbury and others, 
by Rich. II."' Suckling subsequently traces the manor from the De la 
Poles to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk and his heirs, who, he states, 
" were the next owners of Cookley, which in 1557 was held by the Lady 
Anne Cleves, the divorced wife of Hen. VIII., and formed parcel of her pen- 
sion of ;^3,ooo per annum which she received as the ' adopted sister ' of 
her brutal husband." 

Mr. Suckling further shows that Queen Elizabeth in the first year 
of her reign granted the manor and advowson of Cookley to Sir Henry 
Carey, Baron Hunsdon, and his heirs male, to be held of the Crown in capite, 
&c. George, eldest son of Henry, Lord Hunsdon, succeeded his father in 
the title and estates. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Spencer, 
of Althorp, and left an only daughter and heir, who, marrying Sir Thomas 
Berkeley, Knt., had issue Theophila Berkeley, who inherited Cookley, and 
other property in the adjoining villages. 

This lady married Sir Robert Coke, Knt., second son and heir of Sir 
Edward Coke, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and thus carried 
her estates into that family. By Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester, Cookley 
was conveyed inter alia to Sir Joshua Vanneck, whose descendant, the 
present Lord Huntingfield, is lord and patron. 

Thus far the Suffolk historian, who no doubt felt happy in having 
arrived at what must have been clear in his day that the then Lord Hunting- 
field was lord and patron. But would it be conceived possible that aU this 
definite and precise devolution is entirely imaginary, and has no existence 
in fact ? The descent was purely evolved out of the imagination of the 
only writer who ever managed to compile so much as the history of four 
Hundreds of the county. 

The truth is Mr. Suckling was led astray by jumping at the conclusion 
that the manor went in the same course as the advowson. Throughout his 
work he relies too much on being able to trace the descent of the manor 
through the presentations to the church. If he had even read carefully 
the grant which he himself gives from the Pat. Rolls of the 13 Rich. II. he 
would have seen that the manor is not mentioned. The grant is, " Rex 
concess. Epo Sarum,, ac aliis, in feodo maner. de Huntingfield in Suff. 
unacum advocationibus Prioratus de Mendham et ecclesia de Huntingfield, 
et Cokeley in eodem com. nuper Michis de la Pole, &c., per servic. debit." 
Merely the church of Cookley, not the manor, notwithstanding " ecclesia," 
evidently a misreading. Suckling does not quote any authority for the 
statements we have cited, and indeed could not have quoted anything of 
authority in support of his imaginary devolution. 

In the time of Hen. IV. [1407] a fine was levied of this manor and also 
of Roughale by John Loudham, of Northampton, against Sir John Strelley, 
and the manor is then stated to be held for life by John Tyndale of Northamp- 
ton,' and in 1441 another fine is levied of both Cookley and Roghaugh 

' Suckling, ii. 203. ' Feet of Fines, 8 Hen. IV. 30. 



40 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

manors by Robert Crane, John Fastolf, John Ulverton, and John Waryn 
against Richard Verneye and Ahanora his wife.' 

The manor by the time of Hen. VII. had passed to Sir John Hevening- 
ham, who died in 1499. From this time the manor has passed in the same 
course as the manor of Heveningham, and is now vested in Joshua Charles 
Vanneck, 4th Baron Huntingfield, of Heveningham Hall. 

Acquittance for a relief of the manor in 1362 will be found amongst the 
Harleian Charters in the British Museum/ and a Rental for 1682 will be 
found amongst the Davy MSS. in the same depository. ^ 

CooKLEY Grange Manor. 

This was the estate of Robert de Vallibus-^ under Roger Bigot, though 
not then held as a manor. It was held at an early period by the Abbots 
of Sibton, who erected a grange or farmhouse here. 

From the Hundred Rolls we learn that in the time of Edw. I. the 
Abbot of Sibton held 2 carucates of land in Cookley, of the fee of the Earl 
Marshall,^ and an extent of the land held in Cookley by the Abbey of Sibton, 
12-19 Edw. II., will be found amongst the Additional MSS. in the Brit. 
Mus.* A lease of land in Cookley granted by Sibton Abbey in 1406 will 
be found amongst the Harleian Charters in the same depository.'' 

Sibton Abbey retained till the Dissolution, when the manor passed to 
the Crown, and in 1537 was granted by Hen. VIII. to Thomas, Duke of 
Norfolk. It then passed to Nicholas Smith, who died seised in 1559, and 
was succeeded by his son and heir John Smith, at whose death in 1588 the 
manor passed to his son and heir John Smith. John Smith in 1599 sold the 
Manor to John Pettus,^ from whom it passed to his son. Sir Augustine 
Pettus, Knt. He married ist Mary, daughter of Hen. Vylett, of Lynn, co. 
Norfolk, and 2ndly Abigail, daughter of Sir Arthur Heveningham. Sir 
Augustine Pettus died in 1613, when the manor passed to his widow Abigail, 
and on her death seems to have passed to trustees, but beneficially to Sir 
Augustine's grandson. Sir John Pettus, Bart., for the first court in 1674 
is stated to have been held by Sir John Pettus, Bart., and John Hall. 

It seems to have been immediately afterwards sold to George Fleet- 
wood, for he held his first court for the manor in 1675, and on his death it 
went to his widow Sarah. The manor was shortly after purchased by 
Walter Plumer, who died seised in 1745-6, when it passed to WiUiam 
Plumer, who died in 1767, and was succeeded by his son and heir WilUam, 
who held his first court for the manor in 1770, and died in 1822, when it 
passed to his widow Jane. 

It then seems to have gone, hke the Manor of Bavents, Chediston, in 
this Hundred, to Robert Plumer Ward, who sold in 1833 or 1834 to George 
Parkyns. The manor subsequently vested in the trustees of the will of 
the said George Parkyns, but it is now vested in Eugene Frangois Louis 
Lequen de Lacroix, a beneficiary under this will. 

A rental of this manor for 1682 will be found amongst the Davy MSS.' 
Arms of Pettus : Gules, a fesse Argent, between three annulets Or. 

■ Feet of Fines, 19 Hen. VI. 23. s jj.R. ii. 148. 

' Harl. 47 B. 34. 'Add. 34560.' 

3 Blything, vol. i. p. 221&. ? Harl. 83 D. i. 

*See Manor of Barsham, in Wangford 'Fine, Easter, 41 Eliz 
Hundred. « Blything, vol. i. p. 222. 



COOKLEY. 41 

RuGHAGH Manor. 

This was not a manor at the time of the Domesday Survey, but 
the land subsequently composing it was held, not as stated by Davy, by 
Robert de ValUbus of Roger Bigot, but probably by William de Scoies, 
and somewhat later Roger de Cressy was enfeoffed of it, and it passed to his 
son Hugh de Cressy, who died in 1263. John de Vaux of Kesewyk seems 
to have had a grant of free warren here the following year, but the manor 
apparently passed on Hugh de Cressy's death to his nephew, William 
Roscelys, as it is stated that Wilham le Mareschal held of him in 1298. 

This is not perfectly clear, but it is certain that the manor was acquired 
in 1302 by Walter, son of Seman de Fresynfeld and Leonora his wife, and 
John their son, under a fine levied this year against Alan Houel,' and was 
held with the main manor in 1313 by Sir John de Fressingfield, Knt., the 
manor being included in the two fines, 8 Hen. IV. and 19 Hen. VI., referred 
to in the account of the principal manor. 



' Feet of Fines, 30 Edw. I. 37. 




42 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

COVEHITHE, or NORTHALES. 

I HERE were five several holdings here at the time of the 
Domesday Survey, which were subsequently divided between 
the three manors. The principal holding was that of 
WiUiam de Varennes. Edric a freeman had held this 
in the Confessor's time as a manor, and it consisted of 2 
carucates of land. It had 5 bordars and i serf, and there 
were employed in the demesne 2 ploughteams, while the 
tenants had another half ploughteam. There was i acre of meadow, 
and the stock consisted of one rouncy, 8 hogs, and 105 sheep. The value 
in Saxon times was 40s., but by the time of the Norman Survey it had fallen 
to half, and there were various changes. The bordars were one more, the 
serf had disappeared, and there was but one ploughteam and a half in 
demesne. To this manor 100 acres of land, which 14 freemen held, were 
added. In Saxon times this additional land had employed two plough- 
teams, but in Norman days but one ploughteam. There was 1 acre of 
meadow, and the value was fixed at los. All this land was occupied by 
WilUam, son of Rainald, and held of William de Varennes. The Great 
Survey informs us that " 2 half (freemen) of those 14 men William's men 
have seised against Earl Alan.'" 

Another Domesday holding was that of Geoffrey de Magnaville, who 
had 20 acres, which had been held by a freeman in King Edward's time 
under Stigand. At the time of the Survey W. de Boeville held of Geoffrey. 
There was always half a ploughteam, and the value of the holding was 45.^ 

There were two tenancies under Roger Bigot, one 6 acres held by 
Norman, valued in Peasenhall, and 20 acres held by a freeman named 
Harding, under protection of Ulfkettle, the predecessor of Wilham de 
Varennes. In this holding half a ploughteam was employed, and i bordar, 
and the value was 3s., the King and the Earl having the soc.^ 

Earl Alan had a small holding, namely, 4 freemen with 16 acres and 
half a ploughteam. They were included in the valuation of Wissett, and 
on the Earl's demesne.* The only other holding was the land of the King, 
which William de Noers kept in hand for him. It consisted of 2 freemen 
under Stigand, with 32 acres, on which were employed one ploughteam, 
and the value was but 4s. It belonged to Bungay, and the soc to Stigand, 
the Archbishop. 5 

NORTHALES, CALLED OULSTEDE MANOR. 

This was carved out of the holding of Edric in the Confessor's time, 
and in the reign of Edw. I. was vested in John de Vallibus, who had view of 
frankpledge here in 1286. In 1298 John de Cove had a grant of free warren,*^ 
and he and Eve his wife in 1307, and in 1309 there is an order on the Close 
Rolls acquitting this John de Cove for the fee of a charter of warren in his 
demesne lands of Cove and Thuriton made him by the King.^ 

In 1316 John de Cove and Walter de Cove were apparently joint lords. 
Eight years later the manor seems to have been vested in Simon de Pier- 
point (son of Robert Pierpoint), who died in 1324, when it passed to his 

' Et 2 dimidios de istis 14 hominibus ^ Dom. ii. 332, 3336. 

habent sasitos homines Willelmi * Dom. ii. 293. 

super Comitem Alanum. Dom. ii. ^ Dom. ii. 288. 

400. ' Chart. Rolls, 26 Edw. I. 8. 

=■ Dom. ii. 412&. ' Close Rolls, 2 Edw. II. 3. 



COVEHITHE. 43 

sister and heir Sibil, married to Sir Edmund de Ufford, and then to their 
son and heir Sir Robert de Ufford/ who died in 1400. The manor then 
passed toEla his daughter and heir, married to Sir WilUam Bowes or Bowett, 
Knt., who died 1435, and was succeeded by their daughter and heir Ehzabeth, 
married to Sir Thomas, son of Thomas 6th Lord Dacre.^ 

The manor was settled by fine on Sir Thomas Dacre and Elizabeth for 
hfe, with remainder to Robert Fienes and PhiUppa his wife for Uves, and 
to the heirs of the body of PhiUppa with remainder to Richard Fienes and 
Joan his wife for lives, with remainder to the heirs of the body of Joan. 
On the death of Sir Thomas and Elizabeth, Robert and Philippa entered, 
and Philippa died, and Robert was disseised by Richard and Joan. Richard 
died and Joan survived and held until Robert re-entered and was seised 
at the time of the death of Joan, 8th March, i486. 

This was proved by the inquis. p.m. of Joan,' whose heir was found to 
be Thomas Fienes, the younger Lord Dacre, then aged 14, her grandson and 
heir, 8th Lord Dacre.'* 

Amongst the Close Rolls of Hen. VIL we find a Commission issued to 
try whether Richard Fienes and Joan unjustly disseised Robert Fienes, or 
whether he surrendered his interest. ' 

The manor from Thomas, 8th Lord Dacre, who died in 1534, passed 
to his grandson Thomas Fienes, 9th Lord Dacre. ^ In 1537 the manor seems 
to have been vested in Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, and is included in the 
inquis. p.m. of Sir Anthony Hopton who died 15th Aug. 1555.' It seems 
to have, however, returned to the Dacre family in Queen EUzabeth's reign, 
for in 1564 we meet with a fine levied of the manor by Sir Richard Sakevyle 
and others against Phihp " Fynes."^ Another was levied the following 
year by Nicholas Everard against William Calthorpe and others,^ and in 
1570 George or Gregory Fienes, 10th Lord Dacre, son and heir of Thomas 
9th Lord, had licence to ahen to Roger Manwood and others, which aliena- 
tion was effected by a fine levied the following year.'" 

The ahenation was probably with the object of effecting some settle- 
ment, for we later find the manor in Henry, Lord Norris, whose mother 
was Mary, daughter of Thomas Fienes, 8th Lord Dacre. 

Lord Norris in 1577 sold the manor to Robert Payne," and it passed 
from him to WiUiam Smith, who died in 1596, when it passed to his son 
and heir, William Robert Smith. 

We next find the manor in Edward North, who dying in 1707-8, devised 
it to Thomas Carthew, of Benacre, who died in 1741, when it passed to his 
widow Elizabeth, who sold it in 1742 to Sir Thomas Gooch, Bart., after 
which the devolution is the same as the Manor of Benacre, in this Hundred, 
already given. 

' For his marriage see Benacre Manor, in ' Possibly this was a separate manor, for 

this Hundred. we find amongst the Court Rolls 

' Sir Thomas Dacre is often erroneously in the Public Record Office " Estreat 

stated to have married Elizabeth, Hopton " Manor in Northales, 15, 

daughter of Richard, Bowes. 18 Eliz. P.R.O. Portfolio, 203, 103. 

' 2 Hen. V. II, 189, 190. 7 1. P.M., 2 and 3 Philip and Mary, 62. As 

^ See Manor of Benacre in this Hundred. to this unfortunate nobleman, see 

5 Close Rolls, Hen. VH. pt. i. 3, 25^. Benacre Manor, in this Hundred. 

' Fine, Hil. 6 Eliz. 
' Fine, Mich. 7 Ehz. 
"Fine, Mich. 13 Eliz. 
" Fine, Trin. 19 Eliz. 



44 



THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 



South Cove with North Hales Manor. 

Earl Alan had here 6 freemen, who held half a carucate of land, and 4 
bordars, with two ploughteams/ and the only other holding at the time 
of the Domesday Survey was that of Robert Malet, of whom Edric held two 
freemen under the protection of Edric, who was under commendation to 
Edric, Robert Malet's predecessor, and they had 16 acres and half a plough- 
team, all valued at 35.^ 

In 1307 John de Cove and Eve his wife had free warren here, and John 
had a fair granted him in 1309,^ and was succeeded by Walter de Cove. The 
estate, which included that of Edric and Robert Malet in the Domesday 
Survey, was held as late as 1428 by a William de Cove. Shortly afterwards 
Ralph Estley and his wife Julian seem to have held, for they sold to Sir 
Miles, son and heir of Sir Brian Stapleton, of Ingham, in Norfolk, Knt., who 
conveyed the lordship in 1457 to WilUam Calthorpe, afterwards Sir WilUam, 
who married EHzabeth, Sir Miles' daughter and coheir by Catherine his 
wife, daughter of Sir Thomas de la Pole. 

A fine was in 1565 levied of the manor by Nicholas Everard against 
this Sir WiUiam Calthorpe and others,* and in 1576 by Robert Baspole and 
others against Edward Shelton of this and the Manor of Lound.^ 

In 1686 the manor was vested in Sir Charles Blois, Bart., who died 
in 1738, from whom it descended in the same line of devolution as the 
Manor of Blyburgh in this Hundred, and is now vested in Sir Ralph Barrett 
Macnaughton Blois, 9th Bart., of Grundisburgh Hall and Cockfield Hall, 
Yoxford. There is a fine of "South Cove Manor" levied in 1535 by 
Richard Southwell and others against Sir Francis Calthorpe and others,*^ and 
in 1584 by Thomas Jentylman against Robert Gardyner and others.^ 

POLFREY OR BlUEFLOREY CoVE MANOR, ANCIENTLY 

Gunnildshawe Manor. 

This was the lordship of Alan, Earl of Brittany, in the time of William 
the Conqueror, and subsequently came to Oliver de Vallibus, and passed 
from him to his son and heir John de Vallibus or Vaux in 1275. He died 
in 1288, and the manor vested in Sir Simon de Pierpont, and from this time 
to the time of Henry Lord Norris the manor passed in the same course 
of devolution as the Manor of Northales in this Hundred. 

Henry, Lord Norris, sold the manor in 1577 to Thomas Preston yeoman,* 
who held it in 1591. This year we meet with a fine of " South Cove 
Manor," levied by Nicholas Everard against John Moynes,^ and another 
two years later levied by the said Thomas Preston against the said Nicholas 
Everard and others.'" 

In 1764 the manor was vested in one Cowhng, and subsequently passed 
to Sir Thomas Gooch, Bart., who held in 1805, since which time it has 
descended in the same way as the Manor of Benacre in this Hundred, and 
is now vested in Sir Thomas Vere Sherlock Gooch, loth Bart., of Benacre 
Hall. 



' Dom. ii. 293. 

' Dom. ii. 313J. 

3 Chart. Rolls, 3 Edw. 

* Fine, Mich. 7 Eliz. 

s Fine, Trin. 18 Eliz. 



II. 15- 



'Fine, Trin. 27 Hen. VIII. 
' Fine, Hil. 26 EHz. 
' Fine, Trin. 19 Eliz. 
' Fine, HU. 33 Eliz. 
'° Fine, Easter, 35 Eliz. 




CRATFIELD. 45 

CRATFIELD. 

^N Saxon times the greater portion of the land in Cratfield 
was held by one Tored as a manor. It consisted of 3 caru- 
cates and a half of land. To the manor belonged 5 villeins, 
9 bordars, and i serf, and there were employed on the demesne 
2 ploughteams, while 7 ploughteams belonged to the tenants. 
There was wood sufficient for the support of 250 hogs and 
32- acres of meadow. The stock consisted of i rouncy, 8 
beasts, 40 hogs, and 26 goats. By the time of the Great Survey the number 
of the bordars had increased to 31, and the ploughteams belonging to the 
tenants to 10, while the beasts had increased to 14, the hogs to 47, the 
goats to 32. There was a church with 6 acres valued at 6d., the whole 
holding being valued at £4. Five franklins with 26 acres were attached 
to the manor, and they had 2 ploughteams and wood for 6 hogs. These men's 
holding was valued at 8d., and they rendered soc to the manor. In addition 

2 men held 40 acres with one ploughteam valued at 5s., but their services 
belonged to the Manor of Blythburgh. William Bainard held these two 
tenures of Ralph Bainard his uncle, who was the Domesday tenant in chief. 

In this same township a certain franklin held a manor of 40 acres and 

3 bordars, with one ploughteam, wood sufficient for the support of 6 hogs, 
and 1^ acre of meadow. In the Confessor's time this manor was valued at 
10s., but in the time of the Survey, being in Ralph Bainard's demesne, 
it was valued at 20s. The whole parish was returned in the Domesday 
Survey as 8 quarantenes long and 5 broad, and it rendered in a gelt S^d.^ 

Sir John Fortescue, Lord Chief Justice in the time of Hen. VI., in his 
treatise, " De Laudibus Legum Angliae," defines a Frankleyne as " a sub- 
stantial householder, a man of considerable estates,"^ and assigns him a 
place above the yeomen and other freeholders of estates sufficient to make 
a substantial jury. By the time of Elizabeth the franklin's rank was 
practically identical with the yeoman, " beneath," Suckhng says, " a 
gentleman, but above the condition of a vassal or villein." The exact 
position of the franklin at the time of the Domesday is not very clear. In 
that record they are termed franci and francones homines, and are entered 
as if attached to the respective manors with the bordars, though they 
are clearly distinguished from them and from the liberi homines, which 
last amounted at that period in Suffolk to 5,344, whereas there were but 
29 franklins. 

Manor of Cratfield. 

To the Domesday tenant in chief succeeded his son Jeffrey, and from 
him the manor passed to his son WiUiam Bainard, who forfeited it to the 
Crown in the reign of Hen. I., when it was granted to Robert Fitz Richard, 
who gave it to his daughter Matilda de Sancto Licio al. Senliz on her marriage 
to William de Albini " Brito." " Soon after this period," says Suckling, 
" the lordship appears to have been broken into three parts, for in the year 
1140 Matilda St. Liz granted to the Monks of St. Neots in Huntingdonshire 
" totam tertiam partem totius manerij sui de Cratisfeld, quod est liberum 
maritagium meum," &c. 

Copies of the grant of the manor and church to St. Neots monastery 
will be found amongst the Rawlinson MSS. in the Bodleian,' and confirma- 
tion in 1165 amongst the Charters in the Brit. Mus."* 

■ Dom. ii. 415. 3 Rawl. B. 163. 

' Ch. xxix. " Add. Ch. 8517, 8521. 



46 



THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 



Ministers' accounts of the holdings of the monastery in Cratfield in the 
time of Edw. II. are preserved in the Pubhc Record Office.' 

This third part probably continued in the monastery till the Dissolu- 
tion, but how it became merged in the other manor or manors is not ascer- 
tained, for no mention seems to have been made of it after the original 
grant. 

The other portions formed separate lordships under the titles of " the 
Manor of Cratfield " and " the Manor of Cratfield le Roos."^ 

The grant to Robert Fitz Richard, Matilda's father, had included the 
Barony of Dunmow in Essex, as also the Honor of Baynard's Castle in the 
City of London. Lands in Cratfield, which had apparently not been in- 
cluded in Matilda's marriage gift, descended on Robert fitz Richard's death 
about 1 136 to his son Walter Fitz Robert by his wife Maud, daughter of 
Simon St. Liz, Earl of Huntingdon. This Walter Fitz Robert at one time 
had the custody of the Castle of Eye. His knights' fees in an assessment 
in 1 166 for an aid of marrying the King's daughter amounted to 63 J de 
Veteri Feoff amento, and three and a fourth part de Novo, for which he paid 
■£4. 4s. 10^. He married ist Maud de Lucy, with whom he had the lordship 
of Diss in Norf., and 2ndly Margaret de Bohun. He died in 1198, and his 
possessions in Cratfield passed to his son Robert Fitz Walter. This powerful 
nobleman was forced to fly the country in 1212, on suspicion of exciting the 
barons to revolt, and his Castle Baynard in London was demoUshed by order 
of the King. Dugdale reports circumstances which, if true, throw some 
light on his flight. He says " the primary occasion of these discontents is 
by some reported, viz., that this Robert Fitz Walter having a very beautiful 
daughter called Maude, residing at Dunmow, the King frequently solicited 
her chastity, but never prevailing, grew so enraged that he caused her to be 
privately poisoned, and that she was buried at the south side of the quire at 
Dunmow between two pillars there." 

Though subsequently reconciled to the King after a great tournament 
in Normandy held before the Kings of France and England, in which he 
displayed great prowess, he took part with the Barons, and was one of their 
princpal leaders. 

He was finally appointed their General, with the title of " Marshall of 
the Army of God and the Church," and it was under his command that the 
Great Charter of Freedom was secured. He commanded the baronial 
army at the Battle of Leicester, where he was defeated and taken 
prisoner. His captivity could not have long continued, for the very next 
year we meet with him in the Holy Land fighting valliantly at the great 
siege of Damietta. He married Gunnora, daughter and heir of Robert 
de Valonies, and dying in 1234 was succeeded by his eldest son Walter 
Fitz Robert. There is an entry in Testa de Nevill that Earl Roger^ held 
half a fee of this Walter Fitz Robert, on whose death in 1257 the Cratfield 
estate, or more correctly its overlordship, passed to his son Sir Robert 
Fitz Waiter, who in the time of Edw. I. was summoned to Pariiament as 
a Baron. 

He married ist Alianore, daughter of "WiUiam Earl of Ferrers, and 
2ndly Devorgil, one of the daughters and coheirs of John de Burgh and 
granddaughter of Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent. 



' 18 Edw. II. Bundle 1127, No. 4. 
* Suckling, Hist, of Suff. vol. ii. 209. 
3 The Manor is included in the Inq. p.m. 
of Roger Bygod, E. of Norfolk, in 



1270, being stated to be held of the 
fee of Baynard by service of half a 
knight's fee. 54 Hen. III. file 38 
(17). 



CRATFIELD. 47 

He died in 1325, and was succeeded by his son Robert Fitz Walter, 
2nd Baron, but never summoned to Parliament. 

He married J oane, daughter and coheir of John de Multon of Egremond, 
and dying in 1328 the property in Cratlield went to his widow in dower. 
There is an order on the Close Rolls this year to deliver to Joan late wife of 
Robert le Fitz Wautier, in dower a fee in Cratfield held by Earl Marshall of 
the yearly rent of ;^I2/ and the inquis. p.m. of Robert Fitz Walter specified 
this same land.^ 

An extent of fees in Cratfield belonging to the Earls Marshall about 
1400 will be found amongst the Charters in the Brit. Mus.^ The overlord- 
ship from this time is lost sight of. 

Suckling says that the Manor of Cratfield after the forfeiture by the 
Bainards was held by William de Albini surnamed Pincerna, who was the 
son of Roger de Albini, and that his successors retained it for many genera- 
tions.^ This agrees with what appears in the Davy MSS., and it is, of course, 
possible that the fee in Cratfield held by the Bigots under the Fitz Walters 
was not one of the manors, but merely land in Cratfield. Neither Suckling 
or Davy connects the Bigots with the manor till about 1240, when they say 
Roger Bigot, Earl of Norfolk, acquired it by exchange with William de 
Albini. 

WilUam de Albini, whom Davy and SuckUng make out to have acquired 
the manor after the Bainard forfeiture, had amongst other grants the lord- 
ship of Bokenham, to be holden by the service of being Butler to the Kings 
of England on the day of their coronation, and it is in consequence of this 
we find this WiUiam styled in various charters, " Pincerna Henrici Regis 
Anglorum." 

He married Maude daughter of Roger Bigot, with whom he obtained 
ten knights' fees in Norfolk. 

On his wife Maude's death, he gave to the monks of Wymundham in 
Norfolk the manor of Hapesburg in pure alms, and made livery thereof to 
the monks by a cross of silver in which, says Dugdale, was placed certain 
venerable reliques, viz., " part of the wood of the Cross whereon our Lord 
was crucified, part of the manger wherein He was laid at His birth, and part 
of the sepulchre of the blessed Virgin, as also a gold ring, and a silver chalice 
for retaining the Holy Eucharist, admirably wrought in form of a sphere, with 
which pious donation his three sons were witnesses, with several other 
persons." 

He was buried before the high altar in the Abbey of Wymundham, and 
was succeeded by his son William de Albini, surnamed the " Stronghand," 
who was created Earl of Arundel and subsequently Earl of Chichester. 

He married Queen Adeliza, widow of Hen. L, and daughter of Godfrey, 
Duke of Lorraine, and obtained through her the Castle of Arundel, of which 
he later had a grant in fee from the Crown. He died 3rd Oct., 1176, and 
was succeeded by his eldest son, William de Albini, 2nd Earl of Arundel. 

In 1 1 77 he was created Earl of Sussex, and was an assessor in the Royal 
Court constituted to arbitrate between the Kings of Castille and Navarre 
the same year. Later he took the Cross, and was absent from the Kingdom 
for three years. He married Maud de St. Hilary, Countess of Hertford 
and Clare, and died 24th Dec. 1196, being succeeded by his son and heir 
William de Albini, 3rd Earl of Arundel and 2nd Earl of Sussex. 

- Close Rolls, 2 Edw. III. 7. ^ Add. Ch. 19338. 

' I. P.M., 2 Edw. III. 59. * Suckling. Hist, of Sufi, vol. ii. 209. 



48 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

The 3rd Earl was a Judge in the King's Court in 1200, and was present 
at Runnymede at the signing of the great Charters, on the King's side, but 
had later to swear to obey the determination of the twenty-five barons chosen 
to enforce the observance of these charters. He married Mabel, 2nd 
daughter of Hugh de Kivilioc, Earl of Chester, and became a Crusader, and 
died near Rome in returning from the Holy Land in 1221. 

He was succeeded by his eldest son WiUiam de Albini, 4th Earl of 
Arundel, who married Mabel, sister and coheir of Randulph, Earl of Chester, 
but dying in 1224 without issue, his possessions passed to his brother Hugh 
de Albini, 5th Earl of Arundel. 

The enormous wealth of this nobleman is shown by the fact that in 
respect of the estates derived from his brother and also from his uncle 
Randulph, Earl of Chester, his fine to the King for Uvery amounted to 
two thousand five hundred marks. 

He married Isabel, daughter of William, Earl of Warenne and Surrey, but 
died without issue 7th May, 1243. 

It is not probable that this Hugh ever had the manor, but that it was 
exchanged with Roger Bigot by WiUiam de Albini, Earl of Arundel, who 
died in 1224. It is true that Suckling, citing the Davy MSS., says the 
exchange was about 1240, but as Davy asserts that the exchange was effected 
by WiUiam de Albini, the date could not be correct, as he had then been 
dead and buried 16 years. 

Cratfield Manor is certainly included in the inquisition p.m. of Roger 
Bigot who died 4th July, 1270.' From this Roger the manor passed to 
his nephew Roger Bigot. Suckling' states that in 1289 Roger Bigod upon 
his marriage settled the Manor of Cratfield on his second wife Alice, daughter 
of the Earl of Hainault, who survived him and held all her husband's castles, 
manors, and lands during her life ; and that on her death the Manor of 
Cratfield reverted to Robert de Tattershall in right of Amabil or Mabel his 
wife, sister and coheir of Hugh de Albini, who died in 1243. He further 
states that Robert de Tattershall their grandson was lord of ,Cratfield in 
1300, and dying in 1306 a minor Eva his mother retained Cratfield for her 
life, though his father's sisters were found to be his heirs. 

Practically the whole of the above is inaccurate and absurd on the face, 
and this wiU be seen when we introduce a few dates. 

First, if the manor were included in the settlement on Alice as alleged 
in 1289, and she took the same on her husband's death (which occurred nth 
Dec. 1306) as implied, how could Robert de Tattershall have been lord in 
1300 ? 

Secondly, as Alice did not die till 1309, how could Eva the mother of 
Robert de Tattershall have retained the manor tiU 1306 ? 

Thirdly, if the manor were included in a settlement in 1289, and held 
by Alice the widow of Roger Bigod till 1309, how could it have reverted, as 
stated, on her death to a man in right of his wife, who was sister and coheir 
of Hugh de Albini, who died in 1243, 66 years before ? Of course it is 
possible, for Hugh de Albini, 5th Earl of Arundel, was not more than about 
26 when he died, having been born about 1217, but stiU the surmise is not 
very probable. 

It would seem to be more commendable to reason to infer that the 
manor was not included in the settlement of 1289, or to be more accurate, of 

■ I.P.M., 54 Hen. III. 25. ' Hist, of Suff. ii, 210. 



CRATFIELD. 49 

the 18 Edw. I., which is not 1289, but 1290, particularly as in the inquis. 
p.m. of Roger Bigot and Alice his wife in 1306 Cratfield only is mentioned 
and not the manor, while it is mentioned in the inquis. p.m. of Robert de 
Tattershall in 1303.' 

We find further that King Edward I. this very year assigns to Eva an 
interest in the manor by way of dower, " R. assignavit Eve fuit ux' Rob'ti 
de Tateshall def ! . . . Man'um de Gratefeld cum p'tin' in com' Suff' 
quod ad duodecem libr' novem soUd' decem denar' unum obolum &c."^ 

The Eva referred to was the daughter of Robert de Tibetot, and re- 
married Sir John de Cove, who in her right was lord in the time of Edw. II. 
She died in 1350, when it was returned that she held at the day of her death 
in dower, with other premises, the Manor of Cratfield in Suffolk, of the heirs 
of Adam de Clifton and John de Orreby, the cousins and heirs of Robert de 
Tattershall, and of Robert de Bernak, who acquired a third part of the said 
manor of AHce his mother, one of the heirs of the aforesaid Robert de Tatter- 
shall, by fine paid into the King's Court, and that the said manor, together 
with other premises, was held of the Crown in chief by the service of one 
knight's fee. (See Close Rolls, 24 Edw. III. pt. i. 8.) 

In 1353 John de Orreby died seised of the manor, which is said to have 
been held by him of Mary Countess Marshall, widow of Thomas de Broth erton, 
by the service of finding her yearly one pair of shoes or sixpence in money. 
The value of the manor was then £12 per ann.^ 

Suckling says, "There is considerable intricacy with regard to the tenure 
of the Manor of Cratfield at this period, for notwithstanding the uncontro verted 
claims of the heirs of De Tattershall, it was returned in 1338 that Thomas 
de Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk, and fifth son of Edw. I. held it at the day 
of his death, leaving a yearly rent or assignation of £6. is. id. out of it to 
Mary his 2nd and surviving wife. In confirmation of which it appears that 
in the thirty-sixth of Edw. III. [1362] it was returned that Mary, Countess 
of Norfolk, held at her decease the Manor of Walton, with the Manor and 
Castle of Framlingham, the Manor of Cratfield, and others of the King in 
chief, as parcel of the barony of Norfolk."* 

It would appear that upon the death of Thomas de Brotherton the manor 
subject to his widow's interest for life, passed to his daughter and coheir 
Alice, married to Edward de Montacute, and thence to their only child Joan, 
married to William de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk. This is what Davy refers 
to as " a third part " of the manor. 

On the death of William de Ufford and his wife Joan without male issue, 
the manor, or their interest therein, reverted to Joan's aunt, Margaret 
Plantagenet, who was made Duchess of Norfolk for life by Rich. II., 29th 
Sept. 1397. 

In 1382 it was found that Wilham de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk, held at the 
day of his death, " £10 rent in Cratfield " of the King in chief by knight's 
service, &c., as parcel of the Barony of Suffolk, of which Margaret, Countess 
of Norfolk, was sole heiress. Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk married ist 
John, Lord Segrave, and had issue Anne, Abbess of Barking, and Elizabeth, 
married to John, Lord Mowbray. 

Margaret's 2nd husband was Sir William Manny, K.G., by whom she 
had an only daughter Anne, married to John Hastings, Earl of Pembroke. 

" I. P.M., 31 Edw. I. 40. ■• Suckling, vol. ii. p. 210, citing Harl. 

' O. 31 Edw. I. 19. MSS. 708. 

' I.P.M., 27 Edw. III. 57. 

G 



50 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

On Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk's death, the manor seems to have passed 
to John Mowbray, in right of his wife Ehzabeth, daughter of the said 
Margaret' and to Sir Henry Percy, Knt., in right of his wife Joan 
daughter and sole heir of John de Orreby, whose wife Isabel was one of 
the aunts and coheirs of Robert de Tattershall. 

But long previous— as early as 1368— we find the manor mentioned in 
the inquis. p.m. of Henry de Percy in right of his wife Joan,' and the following 
year in the inquis. p.m. of Joan herself , described as wife of Henry de Percy 
le Piere, one of the heirs of Tateshale.^ 

In 1395 and in the lifetime of Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk, we meet 
with a fine of the manor levied by Henry de Percy, Earl of Northumberland, 
Ralph de Percy, Sir Thomas de Skelton, John de Levesham, clerk, and 
Hugo de Ardem against Sir Ralph de Crumwell and Matilda his wife.* 

There can be little doubt that both Henry de Percy, 3rd Lord Percy of 
Alnwick and his widow Joan both enjoyed an interest in the manor, and 
that their interest passed to the eldest son of this Lord Percy by his ist 
wife. Lady Mary Plantagenet, daughter of Henry, Earl of Lancaster, 
namely, Henry de Percy, 4th Lord Percy of Alnwick, who was advanced 
i6th July, 1377, to the dignity of Earl of Northumberland, and passed 
to his eldest son (by his wife Margaret, daughter of Ralph, Lord NeviU 
of Raby), Sir Henry, the renowned Hotspur, so celebrated in history, 
and from him passed to his only son (by Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund 
Mortimer, Earl of March, sometimes by mistake called Philippa), Henry 
de Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, who fell at the Battle of St. Albans, 
23rd May, 1453, fighting for Hen. VI., for the manor is mentioned in the 
inquis. p.m. of this nobleman,' and also previously in that of his mother 
in 1440.* 

It is clear that the manor was divided, and the inquis p.m. of John, 
Duke of Norfolk, in 1433 shows this distinctly, for it includes but a third 
part of the manor and gives an extent.'' 

On the attainder of this Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, in 
1461, George, Duke of Clarence, obtained the Manor of Cratfield from the 
Crown.* 

The singular mode of death selected by this nobleman is well known, 
and on his death his interest in the manor again passed to the Crown, and 
was granted to John Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk, by Letters Patent of 
Edw. IV. dated 7th Dec. 1468.9 

On the Charter Rolls 1468-70 will be found a grant of privileges in 
Cratfield to " John, Lord Norfolk."'" On the death of John, Duke of Nor- 
folk, 17th Jan. 1475-6," the manor passed to his widow Elizabeth, Duchess 
of Norfolk," a daughter of John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and was settled 
on her with remainder to the Duke of York.'^ It, however, soon after was 
held by Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, son of Sir John Howard, created 

• I.P.M., II Hen. VI. 37. 'On the Rolls of Pari, for 1475 is an Act 
' I.P.M., 42 Edw. III. 48. enabling John, Duke of Norfolk, to 
3 1. P.M., 43 Edw. III. pt. ii. 16. lease the manor for 5 years (R.P. 

* Feet of Fines, 19 Rich. II. 29. vi. 127). 

5 1.P.M., 33 Hen. VI. 37. ■» Chart. Rolls, 8, 9, 10 Edw. IV. 14. 

'I.P.M., Elizabeth, wife of Sir Henry " I. P.M., 17 Edw. IV. 58; 19 Edw. IV. 73. 

Percy, 18 Hen. VI. 38. " See Manor of Frariilingham, in Loes 
7 1.P.M., II Hen. VI. 43. Hundred. 

« Grants, Pat. Rolls, 2 Edw. IV. pt. i. 3; " R.P. vi. 169. 

4 Edw. IV. pt. ii. 2, and 5 Edw. HI. 

pt. ii. 32 ; II Edw. IV. pt. i. 5. 



CRATFIELD. 51 

Duke of Norfolk, 1483, and the manor was confirmed to him by Act of 
ParUament in 1488.' In 1514 a fine was levied by Christopher, Cardinal 
Archbishop of York, and others, against Henry, Earl of Northumberland, 
and Katherine his wife.' Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, died 21st 
May, 1524, and the manor passed to his son and heir, Thomas Howard, 
3rd Duke of Norfolk. In 1529 we meet with a fine levied of this manor and 
of Wretham Ponyngs Manor by Robert Viscount Fitz Wauter and others 
against Henry, Earl of Northumberland and others.^ The Duke seems to 
have forfeited, and the manor was granted by Hen. VIII. to Robert Ratcliffe, 
Earl of Sussex, who died 26th Nov. 1542, and by an inquis. p.m. taken at 
Ipswich 2gth Jan. the same year he was found to have died seised of 
this manor, as held of the King in socage by fealty, and valued at 
£22. los. 7^." 

His son and heir. Sir Henry Ratcliffe, 2nd Earl of Sussex, by Elizabeth, 
daughter of Henry, Duke of Buckingham, married Elizabeth, daughter of 
Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, but the manor according to Davy and Suckling, 
once more fell to the Crown, and four years afterwards was exchanged by 
Hen. VIII. for other estates. This appears by an Act of Parliament passed 
in the 38th year of Hen. VIII., which ratifies an exchange between the 
Crown, Thos. Howard, Duke of Norfolk, and Henry his son, Earl of Arundel 
and Surrey, they giving to the King the Manors of Walton Trimley and 
Falkenham with the rectories of Walton and Felixstow in Suffolk, for the 
castle, manor, and chase of Rysing with the Manors of Thorpe, Gay wood. 
South Walsham, Halvergate, and Ditchingham in Norfolk, Dorningworth, 
Cratfield, Hoo, Staverton, and Broomswell in Suffolk, to be held of the King 
in chief by the thirtieth part of a knight's fee and the rent of ;^26 per an. 
payable at the feast of St. Nicholas into the Court of Augmentation.' A fine 
was in 1558 levied of this manor with others by Sir Edward Fynes, Lord 
Clinton, against Thomas Duke of Norfolk,^ and apparently a fine was also 
levied of this manor and of Wrentham in 1560 by Caroline Gryce against 
Sir Humphrey Radclyff and others.' 

In the Cratfield Parish Papers by the Rev. William Holland, edited 
with an introduction by the Rev. Dr. John James Raven,^ there are sundry 
entries of payments made during the i6th and 17th cent, to the bailiffs of 
the Lord of the manor and others in respect of land held by the township : 
[1509] resolut' reditus manerio de Northumberland xxs. vd. et bis a 
novo petio \]d. ob. — et bis hall pecio jd. ob. Domino Norff. vs. iiLd. ob. — to ye 
frayry clerk \d. 

We find that by attainder Cratfield Manor once again reverted to the 
Crown, where it remained until the time of James I., who by Letters Patent 
dated in 1602 granted it to Thomas, Lord Howard de Walden and Henry 
Howard, brothers to Thomas, then late Duke of Norfolk, the former afterwards 
Earl of Suffolk, the latter of Northampton. Upon a division of the family 
estates this lordship was allotted to Thomas Earl of Suffolk, and in 1609 
was acquired by Sir Edward Coke, Knt . , the eminent lawyer, who died in 1634, 
If the manor was not acquired till 1609 then Sir Edward Coke must have 
had other lands in Cratfield besides the manor, as is obvious from the Parish 
Papers in 1604, from which we have already quoted. 

" R.P. vi. 411 (1503) lb. 529. * Blomefield's Hist, of Norfolk. 

' Fine, Easter, 6 Hen. VIII. ' Fine, Trin. 5 Mary i. 

3 Fine, Trin. 21 Hen. VIII. 'Fine, Mich. 2 Eliz. 

* I.P.M., 34 Hen. VIII. 118. » Lend., n.d., 8vo, 



52 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

The manor passed from Sir Edward Coke to his 5th son Henry Coke, 
and from him to his son and heir Richard Coke, and devolved upon his son 
and heir Robert Coke, of Holkham, who died in 1678, when it passed to his 
son and heir Edward Coke of Holkham, who died in 1709, when the manor 
vested in his son and heir Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester. The Earl sold 
the manor to Sir Joshua Vanneck, Bart., who died in 1777, from which time 
the manor has passed in the same course as the Manor of Heveningham, 
in this Hundred, and is now vested in the present Lord Huntingfield. 

Manor of Cratfield Le Roos. 

This manor acquired its name from a member of the Roos family, 
namely, Sir John le Roos, Lord Roos, of Hamlake, marrying Mary, only 
daughter of Henry de Percy, 3rd Lord Percy of Alnwick by his 2nd wife 
Joan, daughter and heir of John de Orreby or Orbey, who had held, as 
already shown, a part of the main manor of Cratfield. 

Mary, Lady Roos, died seised of this manor in 1395, during her mother's 
lifetime without leaving issue.' Suckling (citing from the Davy MSS.) and 
Blome field state that the manor then passed to her mother's second husband, 
Sir Constantine de Clifton, and Matilda, wife of Sir Ralph de Cranwell and 
daughter of William Bernak. 

They, however, show no reason for the manor passing in this direction, 
unless the parties named took as trustees only for others. No doubt the 
fine in 1396 has reference to the dealing in Rich. IL's time referred to by 
Davy and Blomefield. The fine was levied by Henry de Percy, Earl of 
Northumberland, Ralph de Percy, Sir Thomas deSkelton, John de Levesham 
clerk, and Hugo de Ardem of Drefseld, against Sir Ralph de Crumwell 
and Matilda his wife.^ 

Suckling adds, "From this period the possessors are lost sight of till 
1593, when Hamon Claxton, Gent., died lord of it."^ Suckling, however, 
labours under a delusion, for the inquisitions show that Robert, Earl of 
Sussex, died seised of the Manor 26th Nov. 34 Hen. VIII. [1542]," when 
the value was stated to be £22. los. 7^. ; also that in the time of Edw. VI. 
and Philip and Mary, Thomas Browne died seised 3rd Sept. 1552, leaving 
Anna his daughter and heir,^ and also that Sir Anthony Hopton died seised 
of it 15th Aug. 1555. « 

Further we meet with a fine levied of the manor in 1567 by Simon Smyth 
against Thomas, Earl of Sussex, and others.' 

The manor did subsequently pass to the Claxtons, and Hugo Claxton 
died seised of it 20th Aug. 36 Eliz. [1594],^ when it passed to his son John 
Claxton. 

We meet with a recovery, John Brewster and John Mallowes against 
John Claxton of the Manors of " Uphall al. Lyvermere Magna and Cratfield 
Roose," 13th May, 3 Jac. I. [1605]. 

Hammond Claxton by his will dated 7th Sept. 1711, gave to his execu- 
trixes all his estates in Livermere, Cratfield, Theberton, &c., in Suffolk, in 
trust to be sold for the purposes therein mentioned, and appointed his widow 
Lucy and daughter Elizabeth Claxton executrixes. 

( Elizabeth, the daughter, married one Henry Hall, and by Indentures 
of Lease and Release dated 9th and loth Nov. 1715, the sale was effected 

■ I.P.M., 17 Rich. II. 49 ; 18 Rich. II. 34. = I.P.M., 7 Edw. VI. 68. 

= Feet of Fines, 19 Rich. II. 29. « I.P.M. 2 and 3 Ph. and M. 62. 

» Vol. ii. 212. ' Fine, Mich. 9 EUz. 

< Inq. 29 Jan. 34 Hen. VIII. 1542-3- ° Inq. p.m. i8th July, 40 Eliz. [1598]. 



CRATFIELD. 53 

by the executrixes, with the concurrence of Hammond's only son Robert, in 
favour of Sir Robert Kemp, 3rd Bart. From this time to the time of Mary 
Kemp, who made her will i8th March 1782, the manor passed in the same 
course as the Manor of Ubbeston, in this Hundred. 

Mary Kemp gave the manor to her mother Priscilla, then the wife of 
Anthony Mevy, who sold it in 1809' to Alexander Adair, of Fhxton, at whose 
death in 1836 it went to his cousin and heir WiUiam Adair, son and heir of 
Robert Adair, of Ballymena Castle, co. Antrim, by Anne his wife, daughter 
of Alexander McAulay, of the City of DubHn. 

WiUiam Adair in 1784 married Camilla, daughter and heir of Robert 
Shafto, of Benwell, co. Northumberland, and on his death 7th May, 1844, 
the manor passed to his eldest son Robert Shafto Adair, created a Bart. 
2nd Aug. 1838. He married ist Elizabeth Maria, daughter of the Rev. 
James Strode, and 2ndly Irene Anne, eldest daughter of the Rev. Townley 
Clarkson, vicar of Hinxton, and on his death 24th Feb. 1869, the manor 
passed to his son. Sir Robert Alexander Shafto Adair, 2nd Bart., created 
ist Lord Waveney, who married in 1838 Theodosia, daughter of General the 
Hon. Robert Meade, but died in 1886 without issue, when the title of 
Waveney became extinct, and the manor passed to his brother and heir. Sir 
Hugh Edward Adair, 3rd Bart., of Flixton Hall, who married in 1853 
Harriet Camilla, eldest daughter of Alexander Adair, of Heatherton Park, 
Taunton, M.P. for Ipswich, 1847-74. He died 2nd March, 1902, when 
the manor passed to his son and heir, Capt. Sir Fredrick Edward Shafto 
Adair, 4th Bart., of Flixton Hall, who is the present lord. 

Arms of Adair : Per bend Or and Arg. three dexter hands, couped 
and erect Gu. 



' An advertisment of the sale of Ubbeston and Cratfield Rocs Manors, with a mansion 
and 963 acres, of the yearly rent of £722. los. appeared 6th Sept. 1783, in the Ipswich 
Journal. 




54 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

DARSHAM. 

IHERE were no less than six manors in Darsham at the time 
of the Norman Survey. Of these the King had two, Robert 
Malet had three, and Roger Bigot one. One of the^ King's 
manors was held by Alwin the priest in King Edward's time, 
with 30 acres of land, i bordar, and i freeman, with 2 acres, 
half a church (which probably meant an alternative presenta- 
tion), with 6 acres, valued at i2d. On the manor was em- 
ployed a ploughteam, and there was i acre of meadow, the whole being 
valued at los. 

The same Alwin also held in Saxon days a more important manor in 
Stikingland, a hamlet of Darsham. The extent was a carucate and 40 
acres, and it was valued at 25s. in Saxon times, and at 30 at the time of the 
Survey. To this manor belonged 2 villeins, 4 bordars, i ploughteam in 
demesne, and i belonging to the men. There were 3 acres of meadow, i 
rouncey, 4 beasts, i hog, and 16 sheep. This represented the condition of the 
manor in Saxon times. At the date of the Survey the bordars had increased 
to II, and the ploughteams of the tenants to two teams and a half. Over 
this manor the predecessor of Robert Malet had commendation in King 
Edward's time.' 

Robert Malet's four manors were not so extensive. One had been 
held in King Edward's time by Edric a freeman, with 94 acres and 2 acres 
of meadow. There were 4 bordars and 2 ploughteams, reduced to ij by 
the time of the Norman Survey. The value was 12s. 8d. Under Edric were 
6 freemen under commendation, holding 36 acres and i ploughteam valued 
at 6s. This same Edric also held 40 acres imder Malet in Stikingland, but 
not as a manor, and there was i bordar and a ploughteam, which had 
disappeared by the time of the Great Survey, when the estate was held by 
Gilbert the Blond, and the whole valued at 6s. 8d. 

The second manor was held in Saxon times by Blackman, a freeman 
under the protection of Edric, and he held 30 acres, 2 acres of meadow, and 
I bordar, with i ploughteam. This by the time of the Norman Survey 
was held by Walter, son of Richer, and there was but half a ploughteam, 
and the value of the estate was los. To this manor was added a freeman 
with 22 acres, over whom the same Blackman had commendation in King 
Edward's time. The value of the holding was 4s. 4^., the King and the 
Earl having the soc. 

Malet's third manor was held in King Edward's time by Edric with 60 
acres and 2 acres of meadow, and i ploughteam. This was at the time of the 
Survey held by Fulchred, and was valued at los., as against 8s. in earUer 
days. The King and the Earl had the soc. 

The fourth manor of Malet in Stikingland was in King Edward's day 
held by Stanwin with 80 acres and i acre of meadow. There were 2 bordars 
and I ploughteam of the value of los. By Norman times the value had 
come down to 8s., and the ploughteam come down to half, all being held by 
Walter de Caen, the King and the Earl having the soc. In this same place 
was a half freeman under commendation with 8 acres valued at 12^., and a 
freeman named Talcha under commendation in King Edward's time, holding 
ID acres of the value of 20^. Also in Darsham there was a small holding 
of 4 acres (valued in Saxon times at 8^.) held by a freeman under commenda- 
tion, but in Norman days added to the demesne.'' 

Dom. ii. 282b. ' Dom. ii. 3106, 313, 3136, 314. 



DARSHAM. 55 

Roger Bigot's estate in Darsham and Stikingland is described at con- 
siderable length in the Great Survey. 

Ansketil the priest held a carucate of land, which was divided amongst 
7 freemen, of whom one was Toll's man. Who Toll was does not appear, 
but he was probably well known in the neighbourhood. In King Edward's 
day there were 2 bordars, but at the Survey 11. Then half a ploughteam 
in demesne, but now i ; the tenants also having 2 ploughteams amongst 
them. " Leuric Cobbe had half the protection of these which belonged to 
the King, and Agelward held it under him. Turketel had the other half, of 
whom the same Agelward held it, and Alnoth, a man belonging to Norman, 
for the Earl. Bruman-beard, a man also belonging to Norman, had 
half, and Brimar the other moiety. Wluric the Deacon, the son of Godwin 
Algar, and Hosmund, a man belonging to Edric of Laxfield, held 16 acres, &c." 
SuckUng links these involved sentences on the 16 acres next referred to as 
held by Alviva, but really the entry seems to be an enumeration of the 7 
freemen amongst whom the carucate of land held by Ansketil was 
divided. There were also 16 acres and a virgate which Alviva a freeman 
held in King Edward's time, over whom Norman had commendation, and 
24 acres, less i virgate, which Blackman held prior to the Conquest. This 
Blackman was a man belonging to Edric of Laxfield, the great Saxon 
landowner. WilUam Malet was seised of this estate on the day of his 
death. All this, valued at 25s., was held by Ansketel, Bigot's chaplain. Of 
this land Robert Malet claimed 6 acres, which a certain man of his gave to 
his daughter, married to a man belonging to Roger Bigot in King William's 
time. And Alnoth held 24 acres in the Manor of Kelsale, valued at 5s. 
The King and the Earl had the soc. 

Suart Ling, a freeman, held Stikingland in the Confessor's time, but at 
the Survey Cus and Akile Sufreint two freemen held of Roger Bigot 80 acres 
as a manor and 2 acres meadow, valued at i6s., and paying y^d. in a gelt, of 
which the King and the Earl had the soc. To this manor belonged i plough- 
team in demesne, 6 bordars, i ploughteam belonging to the tenants, 4 
beasts, 8 hogs, and 24 goats. 

This land was a league long and 5 quarentenes broad. 

In the same vUlage were 5 freemen, formerly belonging to Ulf, namely, 
Gode, Alfwin his brother, Aluric the son of Bund, Osketel, and Bunda the 
smith, holding 60 acres and 2 acres of meadow, with i bordar and 2 plough- 
teams ; and a freewoman over whom Norman had commendation, holding 
20 acres of land and i acre of meadow, with i bordar and half a ploughteam ; 
and a half freeman holding 8 acres. There was a church endowed with 
24 acres of glebe and an acre of meadow, and this was valued at 19s. The 
King and the Earl had here also the soc, and the whole estate was held by 
Hugo de Corbun of Roger Bigot, the Domesday tenant in chief. The only 
other estates mentioned in the Domesday Survey as in Darsham were a 
matter of 9 acres in Stikingland belonging to Kelsale, and included in Roger 
Bigot's estate,' and a freeman with 8 acres and a team of 2 oxen of which 
the King and the Earl also had the soc in the holding of Earl Alan.^ 

These estates were subsequently developed into four several manors, 
distinguished as Darsham cum Yoxford, Abbot's, Austin's, and Gerrard's. 

Manor of Darsham cum Yoxford. 

This was composed of the estate held by Ansketel the priest, and was 
the main manor of Darsham, having annexed to it the advowson of the 

' Dom. ii. 3346. * Dom. ii. 2g2b. 



56 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

church. It passed from Roger Bigot to his son and heir, WiUiam Bigot, 
Steward of the Household to Hen. I. He confirmed his father's gifts to the 
Priory of the Virgin Mary and St. Andrew's, a clerical house in Thetford, 
and added (before 1119) amongst other endowments the Manor of Darsham 
and the advowson. The Prior claimed view of frankpledge and assize of 
bread and beer in Darsham in the time of Edw. I.' Ministers' accounts 
of the manor and church when held by the Priory, 18 Edw. H., will be 
found in the Pubhc Record Office.'' 

In the time of Edw. II., Roger Edmund, of Yoxford, claimed the manor 
from the Prior of Thetford on the ground that it belonged to his ancestor 
Matthew in the reign of King John, and he deduced his title to this manor 
in this way. Matthew had devised his interest to his son and heir Edmund, 
from whom it descended to his son and heir WiUiam, and from him passed 
to Richard his son and heir, the father of the claimant. 

The Prior pleaded that he could not be called upon to defend his title, 
and a day was fixed for him to show by what tenure he held the estate. It 
does not appear however that anything further came of the matter, and 
certainly the Prior retained possession, for the manor and advowson were 
seized by the King in 1324 as belonging to an alien priory (the monastery of 
Thetford paying a mark a year to the Abbot of Cluni as a token of depen- 
dency), being subject to no bishop but only to that abbot or to the Pope or 
his Legate. 

In the year 1375, however, the Priory managed to secure exemption 
from seizure as an alien house by obtaining letters of denization from 
King Edw. III. On the Dissolution Thetford Priory and all its possessions 
were surrendered to the King the i6th Feb. 1540, and the manor and ad- 
vowson were granted the same year to Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of 
Norfolk,^ but was forfeited on the execution for treason of his grandson 
Thomas, 4th Duke of Norfolk, in 1571. 

Anthony Penning had a lease in 1602 from the Crown, but the manor 
was restored to Thomas, Earl of Arundel, and Surrey, grandson of Thomas, 
4th Duke of Norfolk, who had licence to alien the same to Thomas 
Bedingfield in 161 1. 

This is according to the Davy MSS., but Suckling states that the 
manor and advowson passed from the Howards to Edward Honynge 
who possessed them in the i8th Ehz., and built the old manor house called 
Darsham Hall, in his (Suckhng's) time reduced to a farmhouse. Suckhng's 
statement is rather borne out by a fine levied of " Darsham Manor," in 1575, 
by Edward Honynge against John Guybon and others.^ Suckhng further 
states that Edward Honynge sold to Thomas Bedingfield of Fleming's 
Hall, in Bedingfield. 

This no doubt was the case, but in 1594 we meet with a fine levied by 
John Wentworth and others against Thomas Blenerhasset and others.' 

On Thomas Bedingfield's death in 1636 the manor passed to his son 
Philip Bedingfield, who sold it in 1655 to his younger brother. Sir Thomas 
Bedingfield, Commissioner of the Great Seal in the time of the Long 
Pariiament, and one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas until he 
refused to engage to be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England 
as then established. 

' Q. W. 729. ' Fine, Hil. 17 Eliz. vol. 7. 

^Bundle 1127, No. 4. ^pjj^g^ -^^^^^ ^5.27 Eliz. 

^S.P. 1540, 942 (43). 



DARSHAM. 57 

He married Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Hoskins, of the County of 
Surrey, and sometime citizen of London, by whom he had issue one son and 
three daughters. Sir Thomas died at Darsham Hall, 24th March, 1660, 
and was interred near his father and mother in the parish church of 
Darsham. 

His widow had the manor during her life and presented to the vicarage 
in 1683.' His only son Thomas married Hannah, daughter and heir of 
Philip Bacon, and died without issue. His eldest daughter died young 
and unmarried. Mary the 2nd daughter married Sir John Knevet, K.B., of 
Ashwell Thorpe, in Norfolk. Dorothy, the youngest daughter, married 
Nevill Catelyne, of Kirby Cane, in the same county, afterwards Sir Nevill 
Catelyne, Knt. 

On the death of Elizabeth, Sir Thomas Bedingfiield's widow, the manor 
passed to Philippa, her granddaughter, married to Sir John Rous, 2nd 
Bart. She died in 1685 and he in 1730, when the manor passed to John 
Rous, 3rd Bart., their son, who died in 1730-1, from whom the same has 
descended in the same course as the Manor of Henham, in this Hundred, 
and is now held by the present Earl of Stradbroke. 

Abbot's Manor. 

This was the manor of Robert Malet in the time of William the Con- 
queror, and by the beginning of the reign of Edward I. was vested in the 
Priory of Leiston. On the Hundred Rolls we find an entry to the effect that 
the Abbot held the fourth part of a knight's fee in Darsham of the fee of 
Robert fitz Roger," and also that he held " bortrem " of the homage of 
Ralph de Cheney.^ 

From William le Cheney the same house acquired further land in 
Darsham, for from the Patent Rolls in the time of Edw. H. we learn that 
the Abbot received a pardon for having acquired 2 acres without licence 
from him.* In the Taxatio Ecclesiastica of Pope Nicholas, the Abbot of 
Leiston's lands and rents here were taxed at £4. 3s. 2d. 

The manor passed to the Crown on the dissolution of the religious 
houses, and was granted by Hen. VHI. to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, 
to be held of the Crown by the service of a sixtieth part of a knight's fee, 
&c., and the value was said to be £4. i8s. 

These possessions, with view of frank pledge, &c., were in 1544 granted 
to Thomas Denton and Richard Nottingham, with licence of alienation to 
Reginald Gybons, Gibbons, or Guybon. Particulars of the manor for 
grant to Thomas and Richard Denton {sic) 36 Hen. VHL, will be found in 
the Pubhc Record Office.^ 

By an inquisition taken at Ipswich after the death of Reginald 
" Gybons/' 20th March, i Eliz. [1558], he was found to have died i6th 
December previous, seised of these estates, and to have left John his son 
and heir. 

On the Memoranda Rolls in the 2nd year of Elizabeth will be found 
a writ directed to the Escheator to deliver seisin of the manor to John 

'Some verses on the lady beginning : "H.R. ii. 148. 

" No quarry needs be search'd for ^H.R. ii. 197. 

marble tomb, ''Pat. Rolls, 6 Edw. II. pt. i. 23. 

To make her known to ages still ^D.K.R. 9. App. ii. p. 200. 

to come," 
will be found in the East Anglian Notes 
and Queries, vol. ii. p. 347. 

H 



58 



THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 



Guybord (sic), son and heir of Reginald.' John Gybons levied a fine of 
the manor 15th June in the same year, and in 1574 licence was granted to 
him to alienate " the Manor of Darsham, alias Abbots Hall m Darsham, 
Middleton, Fordley, to Edward Heninge or Honynge." The transfer was 
effected by a fine levied in 1577.'' 

On the Memoranda Rolls in 1576 will be found a direction for tne 
removal of process from the manor and discharge of this gentleman, therein 
called " Edward Honyng."^ . ^ 

Edward Heninge sold the manor in 1588 to Sir Thomas CeciU, Knt., 
and he and Dorothy his wife sold it the following year to Robert Walter.^ 
In 1594 Robert Walter sold to Martin Archdale or Archderdell,"^ who held 
the manor till his death in 1598, when it passed to his son and heir John 
Archdale, who the same year levied a fine of the manor against Ehzabeth 
Walter, widow, and in 1608, with Frances his wife, had Hcence to alienate 
to Thomas Bedingfield, from whom the manor has descended to the present 
time in the same course as the main manor. 

Manor of Austin's. 

This, too, was carved out of the Domesday holding of Robert Malet. 
All that SuckUng says of this manor is this : "Of this lordship I find no 
mention in very early deeds. In some old descriptions, however, of estates 
in Darsham, certain portions of the farms are said to abut upon lands of the 
Manor of Austen's, and ' lands of the fee of Austen's.' It appears to have 
followed in the later transfers with the preceding manors, and is now in the 
possession of the Earl of Stradbroke." 

It is possible that this is the manor which, under the name Darsham 
Manor, is included in the inquisition p.m. of Robert Swillyngton and 
Margaret his wife in 1391.'' The manor was in 1588 in Edward Heninge or 
Honynge, and is included in the fines levied that year, and in 1589 and 
1598 mentioned in the account of the last manor. 

Gerhard's Manor. 

This manor also forms part of the Domesday holding of Robert Malet, 
and in the time of Rich. II. was vested in Thomas Gerard, of Darsham, from 
whom it passed to another Thomas Gerard in 1404, and four year later was 
vested in WiUiam Gerard, who released it to W'illiam Phelip and others. 

In 1570 the manor passed to John Gybons, and thence descended in 
the same course as the manor of Abbot's. The manor is specifically 
included in the Fines levied in 1588, 1589 and 1598, mentioned in the account 
of Abbot's in Darsham. Amongst the Charters in the Brit. Mus. will be 
seen a precipe on a covenant concerning this manor and the manors of 
Abbot's andAustyn's in 1589.^ 

These four manors are not, as Suckling points out, all consolidated, 
but two distinct lordships, termed the Manor of Darsham cum Yoxford, and 
the Manor of Abbot's, Austen's, and Gerrard's. 



' 2 Eliz. M. Pas. Rec. Rot. 87. 
^ Fine, Mich. 19-20 Eliz. 
^ 18 Eliz. M. Mich. Rec. Rot. 121. 
■*Fine, Easter, 30 Eliz. 



5 Fine, Hil. 31 Eliz. 
^Fine, Trin. 36 Eliz. 
^I.P.M. 15 Rich. II. pt. i. 61. 
8 Add. Ch. 25418. 




DUNWICH. 59 

DUNWICH. 

[HIS place was held in the Confessor's time by Edric of Lax- 
field as a manor, and was given by William the Conqueror 
to Robert Malet. It consisted of 2 carucates of land in 
Saxon times, but one of these was carried away by the sea. 
There was a ploughteam in demesne, and in earlier days 
12 bordars, subsequently reduced to two. There were 
also 24 frankleins with 40 acres of land, rendering all customs 

to this manor. In Saxon times there were 120 burgesses, but one church 

only mentioned. 

By the time of the Survey the burgesses had increased to 236, of 
whom 80 were attached to the Manor of Alneterne belonging to the Abbot 
of Ely. There were 178 poor persons in the town {pauperos homines), and 
the number of churches had risen to three, rendering 4 pounds 10 shillings. 
In the Confessor's time the manor rendered £10, but in the time of the 
Domesday Survey it was valued at ;^50 and 60,000 herrings by way of 
gift. 

The King had the custom that two or three should go to the Hundred 
if they had received due warning, and if they did not attend they had to 
forfeit two ores.' If a thief were caught in Dunwich, he could be brought 
to trial there, but for corporal punishment he had to be sent to Blythburgh, 
the right to his pecuniary fine remaining with the Lord of Dunwich.^ 

The only other holdings in Dunwich mentioned in the Domesday 
Survey, besides that of Edric of Laxfield, were those of Robert de ValHbus, 
holding I acre of land valued at 8^., of Norman holding i acre valued at 
2s. M., and Goodrich holding i acre valued at M., this land being held of 
Robert Malet.^ 

Gilbert the Blond also held 80 men of the said Robert Malet, rendering 
£4 and 8,000 herrings. 

There are two entries in the Domesday Survey under the head Alnetune, 
which was probably in Dunwich. Both are enumerated amongst the 
possessions of the Abbot of Ely. One was 2 carucates of land held as a 
manor, formerly having 9 but then 7, i villein, 13 bordars, i serf, 2 plough- 
teams in demesne, and 3 belonging to the tenants, half a church with 2 
acres, wood sufficient for the support of 6 hogs, 2 acres of meadow, i rouncy, 
8 beasts, 28 sheep, 8 hogs, and 16 goats. To this manor belonged 80 
burgesses in Dunwich, as already mentioned, and they dwelt on 14 acres. 
The value was lOOs. The second entry was of 3 freemen dwelling in Bese- 
mera,with 14 acres and i ploughteam valued at 3s., of which the Abbot had 
the soc and sac* 

Manor of the Temple. 

When Robert Malet was banished the kingdom his estates in Dunwich 
passed to the Crown, and seem in later times to have been granted to Hugh 
le Despencer, Earl of Wiltshire, for we find the manor amongst those he 
forfeited. 

Davy states that in 1327 it was granted by Edw. III. to Thomas, Earl 
of Norfolk. From the Deputy Keeper's Report No. 38 we find the grant 

'This was a computation in Saxon times *Dom. ii. 311&. 312. 
iised for the ounce or twelfth part ^ Dom. ii. 312&. 
of the nummulary pound. '•Dom. ii. 385&. 



6o 



THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 



referred to as " supposed to be escheat on account of defective title." The 
information is derived from an Exchequer Special Commission ii Jac. I.' 

We would suggest that the grant was not of the manor, but of a rent out of 
the farm of the town. There evidently was a Charter in the first year of 
Edw. in. granting £25. 7s. iid. from the farm of Dunwich to Thomas, Earl of 
Norfolk, for there is an exemplification of this Charter on the Patent Rolls 

in I334-' 

The House of the Knights Templars in Dunwich was estabhshed 
before the time of King John, for on the Charter RoUs^ of the first year of 
that monarch's reign is the following confirmation made in their favour : 
" Templarii et confirmatio terrar. et hbertat., inter aha, Ritchindine, apud 
Dunwick." And in 1227 is another charter, " Temph fratres ; inter alia, 
Richedone, cum ptin. apud Dunwick." 

Mention is also made of " quidam mariscus apud Donewic, unde holes 
de Donwico solebant reddere p. ann. in firma sua xs. quos Dnus Rex Johes 
dedit magro, milicie Templi, in elemosina, e locati sunt eis ad seem xs." 

In the " Taxatio Ecclesiastica " of Walter Suffield in 1252, the " bona 
Templiariorum de Donewico " were taxed at eleven shillings. Their house 
or Preceptory was called " Templum beatse Mariae et S. Johannis," and it 
once occurs as " Hospitale beatse Marise et S. Johannis, vocat. Le Tempil." 

On the dissolution of the religious houses, the manor passed with the 
other possessions of the Preceptory at Battisford to the Crown, and in 1561 
was granted by Queen Elizabeth to Thomas Andrews to be held of the 
Crown as of the Manor of East Greenwich by fealty in free socage and not in 
chief. The grant is dated 12th Feb. 1561. A rental of the Temple Manor 
for three years is given by Gardner from the collections of Le Neve. 

It does not appear how the manor passed from this Thomas Andrews, 
but King James I. by Letters Patent dated 13th Aug. 1622, granted the 
manor with the other possessions of the Preceptory of Battisford to Ellis 
Rothwell, who held his first court for the Temple Manor 22nd Dec. 1622, 
and left the lordship to Millicent his widow, who afterwards in 1628 sold it 
to Thomas Knivett, of Ashwel thorp. He died in 1658, when the manor 
passed to his daughter Elizabeth, married to Sir John Rous, of Henham. 

On Sir John Rous's death the manor passed to his son and heir Sir 
John Rous, 2nd Bart., who dying in 1730 it vested in his grandson Sir 
John Rous, 3rd Bart., who disposed of the same to Charles Long, who 
conveyed it in 1754 to Miles Barne, of Sotterley. He died in 1780, when it 
descended to Miles Barne, his son and heir, and on his death in 1825 passed 
to his brother Burne Barne, who dying in 1837, it vested in his son and heir 
Frederick Barne, of Dunwich House. 

The lordship is now styled " the Manor of the Temple and the Holy 
Virgin," and Mr. Suckling says that its demesnes have been almost entirely 
swallowed up by the sea, and all that remained in his day did not amount to 
more than two acres, which were situated near Mr. Barne' s house, abutting 
upon the town ditch and the sea cliff. 



Another manor here appears to have belonged to the Corporation, and 
in 1805 to have been vested in the Bailiffs of Dunwich, in 1881 being stated 
to be still vested in the Corporation. 



' D.K.R. 38 App. p. 94. 

='Pat. Rolls 8 Edw. III. pt. i. 30. 



^Confirmation of land and privileges to 
the Templars at Rickindine, in 
Dunwich.— Chart. Rolls, i John, 
pt. 1, 34, 15; lb. II Hen. III. pt. i. 29. 




EASTON BAVENT. 6i 

E ASTON BAVENT. 

jHE parish was called after a family once its lord, and was in 
Saxon times a more important and flourishing place than 
now, having carried on a considerable traffic in fish. It 
stands on a cliff separated by the river a mile and a half N.E. 
of Southwold, and formed the most eastern promontory in 
the kingdom, hence its name Easton. The effect of the 
encroachments of the sea has been to reduce the place. 
As late as 1815 it had 770 acres of land, but in 1881 the area was 381 acres 
only, and before long the parish will most probably be entirely submerged. 

The church (St. Nicholas) was standing in 1638, and had a chapel 
dedicated to St. Margaret, but all vestiges of the edifice have disappeared. 

In Saxon times Elric, son of WoUett, under the protection of Earl 
Harold, held the place, consisting of 2 carucates of land. There were 5 
villeins, 5 bordars, and i serf, and a ploughteam and a half in demesne. 
The tenants possessed 3 ploughteams, and there was wood sufficient for the 
sustenance of 8 hogs. Besides there were 3 acres of meadow, a salt pan, one 
rouncy, 3 beasts, 2 hogs, and 80 sheep, all valued at 40s. The King and the 
Earl had the soc. The downward career of the place is marked by the difference 
at the time of the Domesday Survey. Then the place was held as a manor 
of the King by Gilbert Balastarius. The villeins were reduced to three, the 
ploughteam and a half in demesne had disappeared. The salt works of 
Elric had gone, and all the live stock had passed away, and not been reple- 
nished, while the value had decreased to 20s. Even this valuation included 
one villein, Uluric, in Uggeshall, with 20 acres and half a ploughteam, and a 
viUein with 2fo acres and half a ploughteam in Chediston. 

There were also 2 freemen, Goodrich and Osketel, under the protection 
of Earl Harold, with 20 acres of land, and i ploughteam of the value of 40s., 
of which the King and the Earl had the soc. Easton was a league long and 
half a league broad, and paid in a gelt 6d.^ 

Suckling says, " If we take the leuca at a mile and a half — which probably 
approximates to the extent of that ancient scale of admeasurement — we shall 
find the parish of Easton, at the present day, of about the same length, 
measured from north to south, though its width, seaward, has decreased to 
about a quarter of a mile, or a little more. Hence we gather that the ocean, 
having swept away the opposing point or Ness, now sets with less violence 
on this part of the coast, the action of its tides having wasted not more than 
a few furlongs in a period of nearly eight hundred years." 

The enumeration of the holdings in Easton in Saxon and Norman times 
is not exhaustive, as the Great Survey expressly says, "other land therein."^ 
We do find amongst the King's land in the region kept by Roger Bigot 
under Hartismere Hundred in the Survey, a carucate of land in this place 
which had formerly belonged to 2 villeins when Earl Ralph held, and which 
Fulchered had added to the Manor of Blythburgh in Robert Malet's time.' 

Easton Bavent Manor. 

In the time of Hen. III. 1237 Thomas Bavent was lord and patron 
here, and in 1263 Sir Hubert de Bavent, son of Sir Michael de Bavent, 
had a grant of free warren in his Manor of Chediston, and was lord of the 

'Dom. ii. 444. ^Dom. ii. 282. 

^Dom. ii. 444. 



62 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

manor here. He had a grant of free warren in Easton Bavent in 1275, and 
it is stated in the Hundred Rolls that he had wreck of the sea in Easton 
Ba vents, as his ancestors had for a long time.' 

He was succeeded in 1286 by his grandson Thomas de Bavent/ son of 
Michael de Bavent, and he claimed wreck of the sea and assize of bread and 
beer in Easton Bavents in the reign of Edw. I.', and in 1308 was attached 
for taking wreck of the sea between Benacre and Snodespyche. He 
answered that he knew not where Snodespyche was, but that he had, and 
his ancestors also had, always possessed the right of wreck of sea in the 
parish of Easton. Suckhng says, " the same Thomas de Bavent," but it 
was probably a descendant of the same name, " had a grant in 1330 for a 
market to be held here weekly on Wednesdays, and an annual fair on the eve 
and morrow of the feast of St. Nicholas."* In 1339 Thomas de Bavent and 
Alice his wife settled this lordship with Chediston on himself for life with 
remainder to William his son and Catherine his wife, with remainder to 
Felicia his daughter, sister of William, with remainder to John, son of 
Thomas de Ulveston, with remainder to Richard, son of John, son of Baldwin 
Bavent, and in 1346 William Bavent and Robert Pavilli were lords.' 

It is not certain when the Bavent family became extinct, but Suckling 
thinks probably about the middle of the 14th century ; for in 1361 Sir John 
Argentein presented to the rectory, and the following year the King assigned 
to William de Ufford and Joan his wife a knight's fee, which Mary, the wife 
of Thomas, late Earl of Norfolk, held in dower in Chediston and Easton, 
" which Thomas Bavent held."® 

In 1376 Richard Covyn presented to the church of Easton, but it 
does not appear whether he had the manor or not. 

About this time, or shortly afterwards, the manor passed to Sir John 
Shardelowe, Knt., and on his death to his son and heir Robert de Shardelowe, 
who, it appears, was lord and patron in 1392. 

On his death the manor passed to his widow Ela in 1431 for life, with 
remainder to his son and heir, Sir John Shardelowe, and they are both 
parties to a deed granting land in Easton Bavent dated loth June 9 Hen. VI. 
[1431]. By deed dated 12th Dec. 12 Hen. VI. [1433], Sir Andrew Bryd 
released to Sir William Phelip, Thomas Heyham, Ralph Bonyng, and John 
Cullyng, their heirs and assigns, all right in the manor, and by a deed dated 
2oth Dec. the same year Simon Felbrigge, William Phelip, John Howard 
and John He veningham, and others released to Ela de Shardelowe all claim 
on the manor. 

In 1435 we meet with a fine levied of this manor and that of Chediston. 
It is by John Glemham,of Glemham, against Ela, formerly wife of Sir Robert 
Shardelowe, Sir William Phelip, Sir John Clyfton, Sir John He veningham, 
Robert Cavendyssh, Robert Crane, Thomas Heigham, Ralph Bokkyng, 
Andrew Bryd, clerk, and John Cullyng,^' whereby the manor was acknow- 
ledged to be the right of the said John Glemham, which he had of her gift, 
and the said John Glemham granted unto the said Ela and the other 
deforciants to hold to them and the heirs of Andrew Bryd. 

In 1433 we find the two following deeds relating to the manor : 30th 
Dec. 14 Hen. VI. [i435] Indenture by which Sir WilUam Phelyp, Thomas 
Heigham, Ralph Bonyng, and John CulUng demise and confirm unto John 



'H.R. ii. 148. * Chart. Rolls, 4 Edw. III. 66. 

*As to the family see Banks's Baronia 'Blom. Norf. x. 423. 

Anglica Concentrata, vol. i. 117. *Harl. 5193, fol. 67. 

»Q.W. 724. 'Feet of Fines, 13 Hen. VI. 19. 



E ASTON B A VENT. 63 

Hopton, Robert Banyard^ and Thomas Northalis the manor and the advow- 
son, the conveyance, however, to be void if the said John Hopton, Robert 
Banyard, and Thomas Northalis did not pay 400 marks to Dame Ela 
Shardelowe as therein expressed. 7th Jan. 1435-6. Indenture by which 
John Hopton, Robert Banyard, and Thomas Northalis demise and confirm 
to Ela de Shardelowe the manor to hold for hfe without impeachment of 
waste. 

Ela de Shardelowe presented to the hving in 1438. By deed dated 
15th July, 29 Hen. VI. [145^]) Sir John Sayville and WiUiam Skargyll (no 
doubt trustees) granted to John Hopton the reversion of the manor with 
the advowson after the death of Ela (which reversion in the deed is stated 
to have been granted to the said Sir John Sayville and William Skargyll 
and their heirs by the said John Hopton and Robert Banyard, Thomas 
Northalis having died) " to the said John Hopton for life, with remainder 
to Thomas Hopton, son of the said John Hopton and Margaret, wife of the 
said Thomas in special tail, and for want of such issue then to revert to the 
said Sir John Sayville and William Skargyll and their heirs, to performe, 
thereby the last will of the said John Hopton." 

Three months later by deed loth Oct. 30 Hen. VI. [1451] the said Ela 
Shardelowe granted to John Hopton all her estate in the manor and advow- 
son to hold for her life, yielding to her a yearly pension of 20 marks for her 
life with a clause of distress and re-entry. Ela Shardelowe died in 1457, and 
John Hopton had an assurance from the trustees and livery of the manor 
and advowson in 1472. On John Hopton' s death the manor passed to 
his son and heir Thomas Hopton, who was lord in 1474. 

By a deed poll dated 2 Jan. 18 Edw. IV. [1478-9] Sir John Saville 
recites and acknowledges that a grant of the reversion of the manor made to 
him and William Skargyll by John Hopton and Robert Banyard was to the 
intent to execute estates thereof to Thomas Hopton, son of John Hopton 
and Margaret the wife of Thomas, according to certain articles made upon 
that marriage and the said Sir John Saville thereby revoked and annulled all 
estates made by him not pursuant thereunto. 

From Thomas Hopton the manor descended to William Hopton, son 
of John (?), and then to Sir George Hopton, Knt., and on his death went to 
his son John, an infant aged two years, who died shortly after, leaving his 
brother Arthur Hopton, aged one year and a half, his heir.' 

In the inquisition of Sir George Hopton referred to, the manor is stated 
to be worth £5, and to be held of Sir Thomas Montgomery, Sir Roger 
Townshend, and WiUiam Pykenham clerk, as of the Manor of Blythburgh. 
A fine was in 1538 levied of the manor by Thomas Pope against Sir Arthur 
Hopton.'' 

Sir Arthur Hopton died 15th Aug. 1555, and was succeeded by Sir 
Owen Hopton. A fine of this manor and also that of Empoles was levied 
in 1565 by Robert Hopton against Sir Owen Hopton,^ and against him and 
others in 1568 by Owen Tasburgh and others,"* and William Roberds or 
Roberts, of Yarmouth, in 1579 acquired the manor from the said Owen 
Tasburgh^ and his (Robert's) assigns presented to the church during this 
year. 

' Inquis. 5 Hen. VII. 643. *Fine, Trin. 10 Eliz. 

^ Fine, Trin. 30 Hen. VIII. * pine, Mich. 21 Eliz. 

'Fine, Hil, 7 Eliz. 



64 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

In 1596 Robert Smith, son of William Smith, and grandson of William 
Roberts held the lordship, and sold the same to Jeffery Rowland, who pre- 
sented to the church in 1666. 

From Jeffery Howland the manor seems to have gone to John Howland, 
of Streatham, in Surrey, whose only daughter and heir marrying in 1695 
Wriothesly Russell, afterwards Duke of Bedford, carried this property to 
her husband, but the Duchess, surviving, sold it in 1718 to Thomas Carthew, 
of Benacre, whose widow and son resold it in 1743 to Sir Thomas Gooch, 
Bart., as parcel of the Benacre estate, and from Sir Thomas Gooch it has 
descended in the like course with Benacre Manor in this Hundred, and is 
now vested in Sir Thomas Vere Sherlock Gooch, loth Bart., of Benacre 
Hall. 

Court Rolls of the Manor, 3 to 7 Jac. I., will be found in the Public 
Record Office.' 

Arms of Bavent : Sa, a chief indented Or, or vice versa ; or Arg. a 
chief indented Sa. 



' Portfolio 203, 93. 




FROSTENDEN. 65 

FROSTENDEN. ■ 

N Edward the Confessor's time Toret held as a manor three 
carucates of land with 10 villeins^ 14 bordars, 2 serfs, 2 
ploughteams in demesne, and g belonging to the tenants. 
There was wood sufficient for 40 hogs, 3 acres of meadow, 
2 rouncies, 10 beasts, 60 hogs, 60 sheep, 23 goats, and 2 hives 
of bees, all valued at £4. At the time of the Domesday 
Survey, the value continued the same, but there had been 
various changes. At this latter period the bordars had increased to 20, 
whilst the serfs had disappeared, there was one rouncy less, 4 beasts, and 
only 13 hogs as against 60 prior to the Conquest. 

The Great Survey states that Frostenden possessed a sea port for 
shipping, and also a salt work or " salina " in the Confessor's day, but in 
Norman times the working of the latter had been discontinued. Mr. Suckling 
says, " This ' portus maris,' we suppose must have been situated somewhere 
in the little valley now called Frostenden Bottom, through which a stream 
winds its way by South Cove, and falls into Easton Broad, which piece of 
water must at that period have communicated with the sea, between the 
high lands now known as the sand cliffs, and then lying north of the promon- 
tory at Easton." 

" This circumstance," adds Suckhng, " perhaps now little known, 
proves how many of the unimportant rivulets which issue from the interior 
of the county into the German Ocean, were navigable for the small craft 
of early commerce, or ancient predatory warfare. Thus many streams 
which find their way to the sea, and are known to us as sluices only, were 
designated ports in former records, of which we need instance only one or 
two — Mismere Haven and Portus de Benacre — though the list could be 
readily augmented.'" 

There were also 8 freemen in Frostenden in the Confessor's time, holding 
113 acres with 3 ploughteams and half an acre of meadow, valued at los. 
At the time of the Survey 3 freemen only had this holding, and there was but 
one ploughteam employed. The value was then placed at 14s., in con- 
sequence of some exchange. One Ranulf held two churches in the village, 
endowed with 28 acres of glebe on which a ploughteam was employed, and 
the value of this holding was but 3s. The manor was a league and 24 
perches long, and 10 quarentenes and 7 perches broad, and it paid in a gelt 
4d.' All the above estates were the property of Ralph Baynard at the time 
of the Survey. 

Frostenden Manor. 

The manor was held by Ralph Baynard as the Domesday tenant in 
chief. In 1267 it was vested in Gilbert Frostenden, who this year had a 
grant of free warren in the manor,^ but in 1316 it was vested in Robert de 
Biskele, from whom it passed to Richard de Biskele in 1328. 

Two fees in Frostenden of the value of £20 belonged as superior lord to 
Robert fitz Walter, and were included in his inquis. p.m. in 1328,* and these 
were no doubt the fees held by Richard de Biskele ; for on the Close Rolls 
for 1328 we find an order to deliver to Joan, late wife of Robert le fitz 
Wauter, in dower two fees in Frostenden held by Richard de Biskele of the 

'Hist, of Suff. ii. 318. 3chart. Rolls, 51 Hen. HI. 7. 

'Dom. ii. 4146. *I.P.M., 2 Edw. HI. 59. 



66 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

yearly rent of ;^20.' These no doubt were the same two fees which Testa 
de Nevill states to have been held by Alice de Frostenden of Walter fitz 
Robert/ 

Amongst the Harleian Charters is an Indenture of Feoffment dated 
Ascension day, 23 Edw. III. [1349], by which Richard de Biskele grants 
the manor to Esmon deUfford chev., Roger de Brokele, parson of Frostenden, 
Richard de Cravene, Roger de Cravene, parson of Repenemere, Bartholomew 
Fraunceys, Esmon Man de Mutford, and John atte Cherchie Clopton.^ 

Richard de Biskele made his will, which is dated in 1349, and the manor 
at his death passed to his widow, Alice de Frostenden.'* Sir John Ulverstone 
seems to have been the next lord, and in 1374 we meet with a fine of this 
manor and also the Manors of Giselham and IJlverston. The plaintiffs are 
Alexander Bruseyard clerk, Guy Crokedok clerk, Richard Dartrys, John 
Botild of Bergh, and Edmund de Mutford, and the deforciant Sir John 
Ulverston.' 

This fine was probably levied on the occasion of some settlement, and 
Sir J ohn de Ulverstone was apparently still owner in 1384. This year by 
a writing dated at Frostenden, 7th April 7 Rich. II., he quit claim to Roger 
Boys, Sir John de Wyngefeld, John Pishall, Thomas More, Guy Crodedok, 
Robert Grygges clerk, Robert de Aisshfeld, and William Thurtone, this manor 
and the manors of Giselham and Ulverston in Debenham, with sixty-three 
shillings and fourpence rent in Pettaugh, and the advowsons of the Churches 
of Frostenden and Rushmere, which they held under a feoffment made to 
them by Richard Dartrys and John Botild. ° 

Suckling says of the manor at this date, " The tenure of the Biskele or 
Bixley family appears to have terminated with this Richard, for in 1365 
Alexander, Rector of Darsham presented to the church, and was succeeded 
in this right by the families of Boys, Crane, Barentyn, and Manning, each of 
which presented in succession, the latter in 1425." We see no evidence, 
however, of the manor having been held by Alexander, Rector of Darsham, 
Roger Boys, or Thomas Crane. 

But amongst the Harleian Charters is a deed dated " die Dom. p.p. f. S. 
Fidis Virg. 20 Rich. II. [1396] by which Thomas Cravene of Henham 
grants the manor with the advowson to Sir William Argentein, Knt., Jeffrey 
Sinrund, rector of the church of Benacre, and 5 others.'' And another dated 
2nd Oct. I Hen. V. [1413], by which Thomas Cravene acknowledges the 
manor and advowson to belong to Drugo Barantyn [Barrington], John 
Wessyngsete, Thomas Senyele, and William Bell, no doubt by way of 
mortgage, the debt being £40.* 

Drugo Barington or Barentyn died siesed of the lordship in 1416,' 
leaving Christiana, his widow, to whom the manor passed for life, and she 
presented to the church this very year. The fact seems to have been that 
the manor had become divided into third shares, for in 1418 we meet 
with a fine levied of the third part of the manor and advowson by Christiana, 
who was wife of Drugo Barentyn, Sir Wilham Porter, Sir John Beauson^ 

' Close Rolls, 2 Edw. III. 7. 5 pgg^ ^f pjjjgs, 48 Edw. III. 3. 

''T. de Nevill, 290. '^Harl. 57 D. 2. 

3Harl. 46E. 8. ^Harl. 48 I. 39. 

"This is not of course the Alice de Frosten- * Harl. 45 F. 44. 

den mentioned in Testa de Nevill, ^I.P.M., 4 Hen. V. 43. 

290, as holding in Frostenden a 

knight's fee of Walter, son of Robert. 



FROSTENDEN. 67 

John Houre, John Burgoyne, WiUiam Loksmyth, and John Ryvell against 
John Wissyngsete. Another fine was levied in 1428 of both manor and 
advowson by Sir WiUiam Porter, Roger Houre, John Beaufou, John Bur- 
goyne, John Loksmyth, and John Ryvell against Thomas Seymcle. This 
of third part also.' 

Another fine levied the same year was by the same parties plaintiffs 
and Wilham Bele, also of the third part of the manor, stated to be held by 
Christiana for hfe." 

Christiana re-married John Manyng, of Elyngham, and they presented 
to the church in 1425. The Davy MSS. make Sir William Porter, Knt., 
lord in 1428. The whole manor coalesced in William de la Pole, 
created Marquis of Suffolk in 1444, and amongst the Ancient Deeds preserved 
in the Public Record Office will be found a letter of attorney in 1442 by 
William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, and Ahce his wife, and others to receive 
seisin of the manor and advowson of Frostenden.^ 

William, Earl of Suffolk, presented to the church in 1446, and died 
in 1450,* when the manor passed to his son John de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk. 

In 1476 Sir Edward Hungerford, John Heydon, and Humphrey 
Forster, by deed dated the 20th November, released to John de la Pole, 
Duke of Suffolk, and Elizabeth, his wife, sister of King Edw. IV., to Walter 
Hastings, Robert Chamberleyn, James Tyrell, WiUiam Knyvett, Knts., &c. 
to the use of the Duke and Duchess, the lordships of Frostenden, Bacton, 
and Greeting St. Olave's, which the said Sir Edward, &c., were seised of, 
to the use of WiUiam, late Duke of Suffolk, and the Lady Alice, his wife, 
deceased. 

John de la Pole, created Earl of Lincoln in his father's Hfetime as his 
eldest son and heir, succeeded to his Suffolk honours and estates. He was 
slain in the battle of Stoke upon Trent in 1487, and the manor forfeited to 
the Crown. The estates, including the manor, were however restored in 
1495 to John's next brother Edmund, Earl of Suffolk.^ Edmund, Earl of 
Suffolk, was attainted of high treason and beheaded in 1513, when of course 
his estates passed to the Crown, and the following year King Hen. VIII. 
granted the Manor of Frostenden, &c., inter alia, to Thomas, Lord Howard, 
and Anne his wife, and the heirs of their bodies,^ but they, dying without 
issue, this lordship reverted to the Crown, and was regranted, with the 
advowson, to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, who presented in 1528. 

Amongst the Harleian MSS. is a list of knights' fees held about the 
year 1539 of this manor, by the families of Beaumonde, Codenham, 
Churche, Walby, Pais, Blomefeld, Hopton, and Pyke, and by the Prior of 
Wangford and the Abbot of Langley. 

Coming once more to the Crown in consequence of an exchange by the 
Duke with Hen. VIII. in 1538,^ the Manor of Frostenden was granted in 
1540 to Anne of Cleves for life,* and at a meeting of the Society of Anti- 
quaries 27th Jan. 1859 a deed by Anne of Cleves appointing Philip Chewte 
to be BaUiff of the lordship was exhibited. The manor, however, soon 
reverted to the Crown, and was demised by lease dated 12th Dec. 1557 to 
Henry Partridge for 21 years from the feast of St. Michael last past, at a rent 
of £y. 6s. 8d. 

'Feet of Fines, 6 Hen. VI. 32. ^R.P. vi. 474, 475. 

'Feet of Fines, 6 Hen. VI. 34. «S.P. 2 Hen. VIII. 1129. 

3 20 Hen. VI. D. 547. ''S.P. ii. 1182, i8fl. 

^ I.P.M., 28 Hen. VI. 25. s s.p. 1540, 1500. 



68 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

It is therein called the Manor of Frostenden Hall, with the appurten- 
ances ; the advowson, however, was not included in the lease. The 
demise could not have been in operation for any length of time, for Queen 
Elizabeth held a Court for the manor in the first year of her reign, and we 
find the Crown presenting to the church till 1596. 

The manor and advowson were re-granted in the latter part of 
Elizabeth's reign to one of the family of Morse. The grantee sold the 
manor to John Glover who died in 1573, and was succeeded by his son and 
heir, William Glover, of Campsey High House, who presented to the church 
in 1626. 

This gentleman, removing from Campsey, resided at Frostenden Hall, 
where he died in 1628 at the age of 83, and was succeeded in the lordship 
by his son and heir William Glover, who dying in 1641 the manor passed to 
his son and heir William Glover, who dying in 1660 it passed to another 
William Glover, son and heir of the last. Among the Rawlinson MSS. in 
the Bodleian is a copy of a letter from him to Archbishop Sancroft dated 
1693.' On the 25th August, 1714, this WilUam Glover, by will of this date, 
confirmed to Sarah his wife his capital mansion in Frostenden, wherein he 
resided, formerly settled on her in jointure, and he gave her his advowson 
and right of presentation to the living of Frostenden for hfe, to be disposed 
of by her whensoever it should happen to become void. He devised to 
Robert Glover, his brother, his Manor of Frostenden, with the free and 
copyhold rents, services, fines, and appurtenances, and his house, with the 
lands, &c., in Wrentham, which he purchased of Thomas Edgar, gentleman, 
for his life ; and if he should leave any lawful heirs to them and their heirs 
for ever. He further devised to Mary Glover, his sister, his house, &c., in 
Frostenden, &c., she committing no waste ; and if Sarah, his wife, survived 
Robert, his brother, and he died without issue, then the Manor of Frostenden 
after the decease of Mary, the testator's sister, and also the estate at Wren- 
tham, purchased of Edgar, should be to the use of Sarah, his wife, and he 
did thereby confirm them to her for life, after his brother Robert's decease, 
without issue, subject to annuities. And after the determination of the 
respective lives of Sarah, his wife, Robert, his brother, without issue, and 
Mary, his sister, then all his estate in Frostenden and Wrentham, and his 
right of presentation aforesaid, to the first and other sons of Thomas Glover, 
of Burgh Castle, gent., successively, and to the several heirs male of their 
respective bodies. And for want of such son or sons of the said Thomas 
Glover's issue male, descending from them, then the last-mentioned estates 

to Glover Edwards, the son of Edwards, late of Thurlton, in Norfolk, 

for his life. And if he leave any heir male, then to such heir male, and his 
heirs, taking the name of Glover. Then all his estate aforesaid, to John, 
the son of John Ewen, of Raydon, in Suffolk, gent., by Martha, his wife, 
one of the daughters of Lionel Holle, deceased, and his heirs for ever, if he 
leave any heirs male of his body ; for want of such issue male, then to 
Martin, second son of the said John Ewen, &c. 

On ist June, 1724, the said WiUiam Glover, by a codicil of this date, 
after reciting that the said Thomas Glover, in his will named, had, since 
the making thereof, a son, baptised by the name of WiUiam, confirmed all 
his real estate, after the hmitations, to the said WilUam, son of Thomas, 
and his heirs male for ever. Mr. Glover, who thus devised the manor and 
advowson of Frostenden, died in September, 1726. 

' Rawl. C. 739. 



FROSTENDEN. 69 

By an attested copy of a certificate, signed War Office, 30th June, 
1758, by Thomas Tyrwhit, Deputy Secretary of War, proved by the certifi- 
cate of Major David Chapeau, Town-Major of Gibraltar, it appears that 
Wilham Glover, late a second lieutenant in the regiment of North British 
Fusiliers, perished on board his Majesty's ship the Prince George, which 
was lost 28th April, 1758, he being then on his passage to join his regiment 
at Gibraltar. He was born 12th March, 1738-9. Isabella, the widow of 
William Glover, and mother of Lieutenant Glover, re-married John Daniel. 

Isabella Daniel, late Isabella Glover, and Wilham Fowler, of Norwich, 
sold the manor to Sir Thomas Gooch, Bart., of Benacre Hall, who in 1791, 
presented to the church, and again in 1802 and 1806 ; and about the year 
1809 re-sold this property to Edward Holland, of Benhall. 

On Edward Holland's death in 1830, his landed estates in Frostenden 
and Wrentham, consisting of 1,040 acres, including the manor of the former 
parish, were sold by his executors for 39,700 guineas, and were purchased 
in 1833 by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, who are the present 
possessors. 

Frostenden Hall is a good old mansion standing just north of the church, 
erected apparently about the reign of James I. It retains none of its 
ancient features. 

Arms of Glover : Sable, a fesse embattled erm. between 3 crescents 
Arg. As to the family of Glover, see East Anglian Notes and Queries, 
vol. v., p. 68. 

Manor of Coldham, 

This manor has been lost sight of for some centuries, but it was held 
about the time of Hen. I. by Robert de Colevill, and from him passed to his 
son and heir Roger ColeviU, who granted it to Robert de Colevill, his son and 
heir. On Robert's death the manor passed to his son and heir Roger de 
Colvill, who had a grant of free warren in Frostenden in 1253.' In the early 
part of the reign of Edw. I., Roger, son of Robert de Coleville, granted the 
manor, with lands and tenements in Uggeshall, Frostenden, Wangford, 
and other places in Suffolk, to his son Robert de Colvill of Carlton for his 
life, rendering to the chief lord the services due, and after his decease to his 
heirs. "" The manor passed from this Robert to his son Roger, who by a deed 
in 1297 under the description of Roger de Colvill of Carlton, son of Sir 
Robert de Colvill, Knt., in consideration of 100 marks granted the manor 
with lands in Frostenden, Uggeshall, Stoven, and many other places in Suffolk, 
to John de Byskele of Frostenden, rendering £5 yearly to the said Roger 
and Dionysia his wife.^ Roger de Colvill by another deed the same 
year quit claim to the said John de Byskele all right in the manor except 
as to the £5 rent.* 

A " Colham Manor " is mentioned in the inquis. p.m. of Sir Anthony 
Wingfield, who died 20th Aug. 1552, leaving Robert his son and heir.^ 

King's Manor. 

There seems to have been another manor in Frostenden known as 
King's, of which the Gray family held the lordship. In 1609 or 1610 we 

'Chart. Rolls, 37 and 38 Hen. III. pt. ii. ^Harl. 48 G. 18. 

96, 1. *Harl. 48 G. 17. 

' Harl. 48 G. 13. = I.P.M., 7 Edw. VI. 65. 



70 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK." 

meet with an action by the Attorney-General v. Henry Gray, as to copyhold 
lands held by John Edgar of this manor, and as to felling timber on the same 
and the customs generally of the manor.' 

The site of a " Frostenden Manor " was, we learn from the State 
Papers, leased in 1594 to Sir Nicholas Bacon," and in the same year, 
amongst the State papers we find the note of a lease in reversion of 
" Frostenden Manor " to the said Sir Nicholas, and this lease included tenths 
of St. Edmundsbury and also cottages called Butchers' stalls in St. Edmunds- 
bury.^ 



' 1609 at Blyburgh, Exch. dep. ; 1609-10 ' 1594 S.P. 561. 

at Frostenden. ^ ^594 S.P. 533. 




HALESWORTH. 71 

HALESWORTH. 

jN the time of the Confessor, Halesworth formed three lord- 
ships, which tripartite division of the parish is still traceable 
in the names of the Manors of Halesworth, Dame Margery's, 
and the Rectory Manor. 

The first and most important of these estates at the time 
of the Norman Survey was the property of Earl Hugh, which 
consisted of two of these manors ; one was that held by 
Aluric in the Confessor's time as a manor with 2 carucates of land. 

There were then 4 villeins later 5, 7 bordars later 10, and always 2 
serfs and 2 ploughteams in demesne, then 3 ploughteams belonging to the 
tenants, later 2 only. The wood must have been considerable in Saxon 
times, and indeed the greater part of the parish was probably thickly wooded, 
for on this manor alone there was sufficient wood for the support of 300 
hogs. Between the Confessor's time and the Survey much of this wood 
must have been felled, for the Survey states that at that time the wood 
remaining was sufficient for the maintenance of 100 hogs only ; two-thirds, 
therefore, of the wood belonging to this manor appears to have been cut 
down. 

There were 4 acres of meadow, a mill, a rouncy or draught horse, 6 
beasts probably cows, and 18 sheep. Though there was so much wood, 
there do not seem to have been any hogs kept here before the Conquest, for 
10 hogs appear as an additional item in the Domesday enumeration. The 
value had improved from 30s. in Saxon times to 40s. in Norman days.. 
The other manor of Earl Hugh was that in the holding of Ulf the priest' 
and consisted of 40 acres of land and 4 acres of meadow, with 2 bordars, a 
ploughteam in demesne, wood for 6 hogs, 14 sheep, and 2 goats, all valued 
at 5s. The manor was increased by the addition of 4 freemen with 60 acres 
of land, 2 bordars, and 2 ploughteams in demesne valued at lOs. 

The two manors were held at the time of the Survey by Bigot de Loges 
of Earl Hugh, and the length was stated to be one league and the breadth 
another, the rendering in a gelt being y^d. 

The Great Record adds, " And Earl Alan claims the land of the afore- 
said priest and these 4 men as of his predecessor's fee, and by seisin made to 
him. And the Hundred is his witness.'"" 

The third manor was held by Gunner, a freeman under commendation 
to the predecessor of Robert Malet, and his (Gunner's) father was seised 
before him. The extent was no more than 15 acres of land and half an 
acre of meadow, and was held with 2 bordars and half a ploughteam, their 
value being 3s. The King and the Earl had the soc, and the manor in 
Domesday times was held by Robert de Vallibus of Roger Bigot. ^ 

The only other estate mentioned in the Survey was that of 5 freemen, 
holding a carucate of land and i acre of meadow with 2 bordars, three 
ploughteams, and wood formerly sufficient for 60 hogs, but then for 20 only, 
under Earl Alan the tenant in chief.* 

'Dom. ii. 299. 3£)Qin. ij. 335, 

"^Dom. ii. 299. "Dom. ii. 293. 



72 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

Halesworth Manor. 

The Domesday tenant in chief of the manor, Earl Hugh, was the well- 
known Hugh de Abrincis, surnamed Lupus, created Earl of Chester in 
1070. He was the nephew of William the Conqueror, being his half-sister 
Emma's son. He does not seem to have been present at the Battle of 
Hastings, but joined the Conqueror shortly after. His valour and capacity 
greatly assisted in cementing the victory, but his character as drawn by 
Ordericus Vitalis is not particularly prepossessing. 

This writer says, " He was a most luxurious and prodigal nobleman. 
His attendants, whenever he travelled, were so numerous that they looked 
more like an army than a family of servants. He gave away vast sums of 
money, without reason or measure, and was equally extravagant in the 
bribes and presents he extorted from people under his authority. He 
was excessively fond of the country sports of hunting and hawking, in the 
pursuit of which he destroyed the fences, and laid waste the arable lands 
of his county of Chester in a miserable manner, having no regard to the 
interest of the farmers who occupied them, or to the remonstrances of the 
clergy, but being governed entirely by the hawkers and huntsmen who were 
his companions in those sports. He was also an excessive glutton, and 
indulged himself so much in the pleasure of eating and drinking that he 
grew enormously fat and heavy, so as to be hardly able to walk. He was 
also a great whoremaster, and had a great number of illegitimate children, 
by several different women, who almost all came to untimely deaths ; and 
he had one lawful son by his wife, Ermentrude, the daughter of Hugh de 
Clermont, in the country of Beauvais in France." 

' No doubt to atone for his many misdeeds, according to the custom of 
the age the first Earl of Chester assumed the monastic habit, and died a 
few days after on the 24th July, iioi, and his vast estates passed to his son 
Richard, 2nd Earl of Chester, who died without issue in 11 20, being drowned 
with his wife Maud (daughter of Stephen, Count of Blois by Adela, daughter 
of William the Conqueror) in their passage from Normandy with William 
and Richard, sons of King Henry. 

The manor in the middle of the twelfth century was vested in Thomas 
de Halesworth, and on his death passed to his daughter Rose, married to 
Reginald de Argentine, a family which long held the manor as a subinfeuda- 
tion of the Honour of Chester.' 

This Reginald de Argentine, according to Suckling, derived his name 
and pedigree from David de Argentein, a Norman who served under WiUiam 
the Conqueror, " His name," says Suckling, " spelt Argentoun, occurs in 
the Roll of Battle Abbey ; and as it is repeated in Domesday Book, he was 
probably one of the martial knights actually present on the field of Hastings. 
Reginald de Argentein, who inherited the Manor of Great Wymondley, 
in Hertfordshire, from his mother, the heiress of Guy Fitz-Tecon, held the 
office of hereditary cup-bearer to the King at his coronation, in virtue of that 
lordship. Hence his armorial cognizance of three covered cups argent, 
upon a field gules. He seems to have been connected by marriage with a 
family which assumed their surname from Halesworth, and granted their 
possessions here to his son." 

'T. deNevill, 291. 



HALESWORTH. 73 

Dr. Howard in his annotated Visitation of Suffolk (vol. ii. p. 181) gives 
the pedigree of this Reginald Argentine from a MS. amongst the collections 
of John Philepotj Somerset Herald, by WiUiam Courthorpe, Somerset, as 
follows : — 

Gyles Arthenthein, Knt. = 

came with William the Conqueror I 



I William Mallett, Lord of = 

Roger Arthenthein = Little Wylmodley and Lynlegh 



I I 

Sir Richard Arthenthein, Knt. = Denoise 

I 



Sir Reignold Arthenthein, Knt. = Johane dau. of Aleyn, sonne of 

I Tere, Lord of Great Wylmodley 
I by title 

I 
Sir John Arthenthein, Knt. = 



Reignold Arthenthein = Margery, d. to ye Erie of Surrey 



Richard Argenthein ye elder 
was the first founder of Wylmodley 

In 1195 Reginald de Argentein was Sheriff of Cambridgeshire, and in 
1197 served that office for Essex. Adhering to the cause of the rebellious 
Barons in 1215 he had assurance of safe conduct to come to the King to 
treat of peace for them ; but his embassy at that time failed. Making his 
own composition in 1216, his lands, which had been seized on for that 
transgression, were restored. The time of his decease is uncertain, but he 
was dead before the year 1223, and the manor passed to his son, Richard 
de Argentein, who had been one of the witnesses to Magna Charta. This 
knight was Sheriff for Essex and Hertfordshire, and also for the counties of 
Cambridge and Huntingdon, and was constituted Governor of the Castle 
of Hertford in 1223. 

In the previous year he gave the King two palfreys for licence to hold 
a weekly market at his Manor of " Halsworde," and an annual fair on the 
eve, day, and morrow after the feast of St. Luke, i8th October.' In 1226 
he obtained inter alia a confirmation of this grant for his fair and market 
at " Hallsworthe,'" and was appointed a steward of the King's household. 
He married Cassandra, daughter of John de Insula. In 1229, or the following 
year, he went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, " being a noble knight and 
valiant in arms," and died in 1246. Giles, his son and heir, was also a knight 
of great valour and prowess. He claimed the assize of bread and ale in his 
Manor of Halesworth, though his authority to do so was questioned by the 
royal commissioners.^ There is a suit referred to on the Patent Rolls as 
instituted by Henry Bleuth against this Giles de Argentein and others 
touching a tenement in Halesworth.* 

Being with the King in Wales in 1232, he was taken prisoner, with 
others, in battle with the Welsh, near Montgomery ; but ten years later 

' Rot. Pip. de A". 7 Hen. III. nova oblata. ^Nescitur quo warranto. Rot. Hundred 
^ Chart. Rolls. II Hen. ni, pt. i. 26. The ii. 147, 197. He also claimed 

fair is now held on the 29th October. " bortrem " in Halesworth. . 

See Manor of Newmarket, Lackford *Pat. Rolls, 8 Edw. I. I5<^. 

Hundred. 

K 



74 



THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 



he was summoned to attend the King to Gascony ; and in 1262 was made 
Governor of Windsor Castle. Taking part with the Barons in the Battle 
of Lewes, where King Henry was made prisoner, he was elected by them 
one of their counsellors for the government of the kingdom, but after 
their defeat at Evesham, his lands, and those of his son Reginald, who 
was with him in the insurrection, were seized by the Crown, but were 
afterwards restored; for in 1283 he was found by an inquisition post mortem 
taken in that year to have held Argentein Manor in Melbourne, in Cam- 
bridgeshire, &c., and theManor of Great Wymondley, in Herts., by serjeantry, 
and the service of attending the King with a silver cup on the day of his 
coronation in such place as the King's steward should assign for the per- 
formance of such service. 

Reginald Argentein was found to be his son and heir, of forty years 
of age. He did homage and had livery of his father's great estates in 
the counties of Cambridge, Hertford, Norfolk, and Suffolk.' In 1285 
he obtained a grant of free warren in his Manor of Wymondley,^ and in 
1293 had a charter for a new fair and market in his Manor of Halesworth.^ 
The 26th Jan. 1297, he was summoned to ParUament as a Baron of the 
Realm, though none of his issue received that honour. He married Lora, 
daughter of Hugh de Vere, 4th Earl of Oxford," who brought him the Manor 
of Ketteringham, in Norfolk, and died in 1307, seised, inter alia, of the 
Manor of Halesworth ; which by an inquisition was returned as being 
held of the Crown in capite, as of the Honor of Chester, by the service 
of one knight's fee.^ 

John de Argentein, his son and heir, was of full age at his father's 
death, and did homage and had Uvery of his inheritance in 1308, and in 
that year had a charter of free warren for divers manors in the counties of 
Bedford and Herts., which he obtained in right of his first wife, Joan, 
daughter and heir of Sir Roger Bryan, Knt. He died in 1318,^ leaving 
three daughters — Joan, married to Sir John Boteler, Knt. ; Elizabeth, 
married to Sir William Boteler, Knt. ; and Dionysia, who died single. 
These ladies were coheiresses of his first wife. By Agnes, his 2nd wife, 
daughter of Sir William de Bereford, sister and heir of Sir Edmund 
de Bereford, Knt. (who afterwards married successively Sir John de 
Nerford, who died in 1329, and Sir John de Maltravers^), he left an only 
son, John de Argentein, his heir, of the age of 6 months. 

On the Close Rolls in 1319 is an order to the Escheator to deliver to 
Agnes 40 acres in Halesworth.^ She died in 1375. In the following year 
William de Bereford, grandfather of John de Argentein the infant, com- 
pounded with the King for seventy-six pounds, to be paid out of the Manor 
of Halesworth, for the wardship of his grandson.^ 

At the coronation of Rich. II., this John de Argentein claimed the 
office of cup-bearer, in right of his Manor of Wymondley ; and we find a 



'I.P.M., II Edw. I. 

°He claims warren, view of frankpledge, 

and assize of bread and beer in 

Halesworth. Q.W. 722. 
^ Chart. Rolls, 21 Edw. 1. 10. 
■•The pedigree of Philepot above referred 

to states that Reginald's wife was 

Lora, daughter of Robert Mountford. 
5Harl. MSS. 708. 

°I.P.M., 12 Edw. 11.43, where an extent of 
the manor may be found. 



^His 2nd wife, according to the pedigree 
of Philepot above referred to, was 
Agnes de Maltravers. 

8 Close Rolls, 12 Edw. II. 16. 

^ There is an order on the Close Rolls to 
discharge the executors of this 
William de Bereford the elder in 
1327. Close Rolls, I Edw. II. pt. ii. 
28; and see Pat. Rolls, i Edw. II. 
pt. i. 38. 



HALESWORTH. 



75 



pardon on the Patent Rolls in 1380 to William de Fornham for not appear- 
ing to answer this Sir John Argentein for leaving his home at Halesworth 
within a term agreed upon.' Sir John married Margaret, daughter and 
heirof Robert D'Arcy, of Stratton, and died in 1382, and we learn from the 
Patent Rolls that an unfortunate incident happened at the funeral. It 
seems that he was a Patron of the Priory of Wymondley, and the Prior of 
that house was seized as he was coming to Halesworth to celebrate the 
obsequies of Sir John. A commission was directed by the Crown to enquire 
into the matter.^ 

By inquisition in 1382 it was found that the said Sir John held at his 
death the third part of the manor called Brendehall, in Bumpstead, at 
Turrem, in Essex ; and that Margaret, the daughter of Joan, late wife 
of Bartholomew Naunton, Knt., daughter of Sir John, and Baldwin St. 
George (son of Baldwin St. George) and Alice his wife, another daughter 
of the said John, and Matilda, wife of John Fitz- Warren, Knt., another 
daughter of Sir John Argentein, were the three coheirs of the said Sir John. 
And by another inquisition, taken the following year, it was found that 
the said Sir John Argentein held the Manors of Great and Little Wymond- 
ley, in Hertfordshire, and that the same persons were his coheirs. 

Also by a third inquisition, taken the same year, it was found that 
Sir John Argentein held for hfe, jointly with Margaret, his wife, of the 
grant of Adam Payne, clerk, the Manor of Halesworth, with remainder, 
after the death of the said Sir John, and Margaret his wife, to Sir William 
Argentein, Knt., and Isabella, his wife. 

Notwithstanding that his three daughters were found to be the heirs 
of Sir John Argentein, yet the above-named Sir William Argentein, who 
was an illegitimate son of Sir John, held the Manor of Great Wymondley ; 
and in 1393 served the office of Sheriff for Norfolk and Suffolk. Moreover, 
in 1399, at the coronation of Hen. IV., he served the King with his first cup 
of wine, which cup he had for his fee, notwithstanding the petition whicla 
John Fitz-Warren presented to the steward, claiming that office in right 
of his wife, the Lady Maud, daughter and heiress of Sir John Argentein.^ 

Sir William Argentein married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William 
Kerdeston, and died in 1418. In the following year he was found by an 
inquisition post mortem to have held at the day of his death the Manor 
of Halesworth, together with the advowson of the church, of the Honor 
of Chester, &c., and that John Argentein was his heir.'* 

This John, who was the son of John and grandson of Sir William, died 
in 1423, when Elizabeth and Joan, his sisters, were found to be his heirs. ^ 
Elizabeth married WiUiam Alington, junior, of Horsett, son of William 
Alington, " yt was thresorer of Normandy," and Joan married ist Robert 
Alington, brother of William AHngton, and 2ndly Grey Corbett, lord of 
Assington and Dunham, co. Norfolk, brother of Gilbert Corbett. Joan 
died in 1428 seised of a moiety of the Manors of Great Wymondley and 
Halesworth, with a messuage and a virgate of land in the latter town, 
together with the advowson of the church of Halesworth, with its appur- 
tenances, &c., held of the Honor of Chester, &c., and Elizabeth, wife of 



'Pat. Rolls, 3 Rich. II., pt. ii. 30. 
^ Pat. Rolls, 6 Rich. II., pt. ii. ^d. 
^ Lansdowne MSS. 280. 



"* I.P.M., 7 Hen. V. 13. Margaret, wife of Sir 
William Argentein, Ih. 6 Hen. VI. 

53- 
5I.P.M., 6 Hen. VI. 



76 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

William Alington, jun., her sister, was her next heir, and then of the age 
of eighteen years/ 

The family of Alington or AUington was descended from Hildebrand 
Alington, who married the daughter and heir of John de Columbariis. 
WiUiam Ahngton, the eleventh in descent, was treasurer to Hen. IV. m 
Ireland, and to Henry V. in Normandy. He married Joan, daughter of 
William de Burgh, and died Oct. 1446.' 

John, the son and heir of William Alington and Elizabeth Argentein, 
his wife, married Mary, daughter of Lawrence Cheyny, of Fenditton, and 
held the Manor of Halesworth with its appurtenances in 1460. He died 
in 1480,^ when he was succeeded by his son and heir WiUiam AUngton, who 
is stated to have held for a term of 60 years. He married Elizabeth, 
daughter of Henry Wentworth. WiUiam Alington died 22nd Aug. 1485, 
and was succeeded by his son. Sir Giles Alington.* 

The manor and advowson are stated in his inquisition to be worth over 
20 marks, and to be held of the King as of the Honor of Chester by the 
service of one knight's fee. In 1516 a fine was levied of the manor by Sir 
Robert Drury and others against' this Sir Giles " Alyngton " and Mary his 
wife,' and in 1556 by Thomas Edrington against the said Sir Giles Alington.^ 

Sir Giles Alington married Mary, only daughter and heir of Sir Richard 
Gardiner, and had several children, of whom three of the younger sons, 
George, John, and Richard, were the founders of families, George being 
the direct ancestor of the Alingtons of Siomhope, co. Lincoln. Sir Giles 
was succeeded by his eldest son. Sir Giles Alington, of Horseheath, High 
Sheriff of Cambridgeshire in 1530-1, and of Huntingdonshire in 1545-6. 
He attended King Hen. VIII. as Master of the Ordnance at the siege of 
Boulogne, which fact appears from an inscription on a clock which he 
brought from that siege and affixed over the offices at Horseheath Hall, in 
which was the alarum bell of the garrison of Boulogne. He died in 1586, 
outliving his son Robert and his grandson Giles, and the manor passed to 
his great-grandson Giles Alington, son of the last-named Giles. 

Giles Alington, the successor to his great-grandfather, was knighted 
by King James I. at the Charter House, London, nth May,^i6o3.' "- By 
Dorothy his wife, daughter of Thomas Cecil, Earl of Exeter, he had issue 
four sons and six daughters, and d5nng in 1638 the manor passed to his 
2nd but eldest surviving son. Sir Giles Alington. He married a half- 
sister of one of his nieces, the daughter of his sister, Mrs. Dalton, for which 
breach of the forbidden degree of consanguinity he was fined in the Star 
Chamber £12,000, bound in a bond of £20,000 never to cohabit or come to 
his wife's private company again. His issue was declared illegitimate, 
and he was condemned to do penance at St. Paul's Cross, London, and in 
St. Mary's Church, Cambridge, in 1631, the like punishment being inflicted 
on the lady, who died of the smallpox in 1644. Sir Giles's father-in-law 
and brother-in-law, Mr. Dalton, was fined £2,000 for having procured the 
licence. 

It is asserted that the fine imposed on Sir Giles Alington in the Star 
Chamber was shared between Queen Henrietta Maria and the Earl of 
Holland. In consequence of the issue of the marriage being bastardized, 
the estates on Sir Giles's death passed to his only surviving brother, WiUiam, 

' I.P.M., 7 Hen. VI. 8. <* Inquis. i Hen. VII. 77. 

^I.P.M., 38-39 Hen. VI. 42. spine, Trin. 8 Hen. VIII. 

3 1.P.M., 20 Edw. IV. 58. 6 pjne, Easter, 3 Mary I. 



HALES WORTH. ^^ 

who was elevated to the peerage of Ireland as Baron Alington of Killard, 
28th July, 1642. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Lionel ToUemache, 
2nd Bart, of Helmingham, by whom he had five sons and three daughters. 

On Lord Alington's death the manor passed to his widow Elizabeth, 
who, 20th October, 1651, held her first court as lady of this manor, it 
having passed to her in dower. This same year she married the Hon. Sir 
WiUiam Compton, and was buried at Horseheath, 14th April, 1671,' where- 
upon the manor passed to her son, William Alington, 3rd Baron Alington, 
brother of Giles, 2nd Baron, who had died a minor and unmarried, and 
was buried at Horseheath 2nd March, 1659. WiUiam Alington served the 
Emperor of Germany against the Turks in Hungary, and became Major- 
General of the land forces here in 1678, the following year being appointed 
Constable of the Tower of London, and 5th Dec. 1682, raised to the English 
peerage, being created " Baron Alington of Wymondley, co. Hertford." 
He married ist Catherine, daughter of Henry Stanhope, usually called 
Lord Stanhope, son of Philip, ist Earl of Chesterfield ; 2ndly Juliana, 
daughter of Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden ; and 3rdly Diana, 
daughter of William Russell, 5th Earl, ist Duke of Bedford, and widow of 
Sir Greville Verney. He died ist Feb. 1684,^ leaving the Manor of Hales- 
v/orth, inter alia y during the minority of his son, to Diana, his widow. On the 
22nd July, 1686, was held the court baron, with view of frankpledge, and 
court of pie-powder, of this lady, under the title of " the court of the most 
noble Diana, Lady Alington, widow, mother and guardian of the most 
noble Giles, Lord Alington, Baron Alington, of Wymondley and Killard." 
In right of the Manor of Wymondley, Hildebrand Ahngton, uncle to this 
Giles, Lord Alington, then under age, at the coronation of James II. 
23rd April, 1685, presented to his Majesty on the knee, the first cup of wine 
in a silver bowl, gilt ; who having drunk it returned the cup to the bearer, 
which he received as his fee. By the Lady Diana, Lord Alington left issue 
two daughters : Catharine, the eldest, who married Sir Giles Napier, of 
the county of Dorset, Knight and Baronet ; and Diana, the youngest, who 
became the wife of Sir George Warburton ; and also three sons, Giles, 4th 
Baron Alington, who died, at the age of ten years, i8th Sept. 1691 ; Hilde- 
brand, who also died a minor in 1685 ', ^^nd Argentine, who died young, on 
25th March, 1682. The manor then passed with the title to Hildebrand, 
5th Baron Alington, son of the first lord in the English peerage, and uncle 
of the 4th Baron. 

Hildebrand, 5th Lord Alington, sold the Manor of Halesworth, with 
the advowson of the church, to William Betts, who held his court for the 
manor, the 31st July, 1706, but the Davy MSS. state in 1696. WiUiam Betts 
died in 1709, and the manor went to his widow Dorothea Betts, who held 
her court for the same the 24th April^ 1711. 

She died in 1732, when the manor passed to her son, Thomas Betts, 
who in 1736 presented to the church ; but sold the lordship and advowson 
in 1739, to Walter Plumer, who held his first court that year, and died in 
1745-6, when the manor passed to his brother WiUiam Plumer, who dying 
in 1767 it passed to his son and heir William Plumer, at whose death in 1822 
it went to his widow, Jane Plumer, who presented Richard Whately, the 
well-known Archbishop of Dublin, to the rectory, in 1822. 

It seems that Jane the widow re-married Robert Plumer Ward, who in 
1833 oi" 1834 sold the manor to John Cutts, a solicitor at Witham, in 
Essex, who re-sold it a little later to John Crabtree. 

'Will 5th April, 1669, pr. 17th April, 1671. 'Will i6th May, 1684, pr. 6th May, 1685. 



78 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

The advowson, however, is now ahenated from the manor, and belongs 
to the family of Badely. The Manor of Halesworth is said to have this 
pecuhar custom, that a copyhold tenant cannot lease for a longer term 
than one year without the licence of the lord, but this is not a custom 
peculiar to this manor, but common to most manors. 

The manor house passed imder a deed dated 2oth April, 1621, being 
sold by Thomas Shipdam, of the city of Norwich, merchant, to Josiah 
Fawethur, of Halesworth, Esq. The description was " the site or manor- 
house of the Manor of Halesworth, situated in Halesworth aforesaid, with 
all and singular the houses, &c., containing in the whole 45 acres, and two 
woods, anciently called the Home Wood and the Halmore, now or late 
converted into land, meadow, or pasture ; and all that meadow, parcel of 
the demesnes, called the Lord's Fen, otherwise Rush-fen, containing by 
estimation 4 acres, holden by copy of court-roll of the said Manor of Hales- 
worth, and lately given unto John Shipdam, brother of Thomas, by the 
will of Thomas Shipdam, the father, &c." 

The above descent of the manor has been taken from Suckhng's History 
of Suffolk, having been altered in a few places only by the insertion of 
references and authorities, and the addition of a few further particulars. 

Papers relating to the manor will be found in the Brit. Mus.,' and 
Compotus Rolls of the Manor amongst the Brit. Mus. Additional Charters.'' 

Arms of Argentine : Gul. three covered cups, Arg. ; of Alington : 
Sa. a bend engrailed betw. 6 billets Az. 

Dame Margery's Manor. 

Probably so called after Dame Margaret, wife of Sir John Argentine, 
who died in 1385, and by her will dated at Halesworth 1385, directed her 
body to be buried in the Church of St. Mary of Halesworth, and gave to the 
high altar there xx. shillings, for of course it existed as a separate manor 
before this date. Indeed, Suckling supposes it to have been the estate 
which in the Domesday Survey is shown to have been held by Alan, Earl 
of Richmond, but we are inclined to consider it rather the estate held at 
the Conquest by Gumer the freeman, and at the time of the Survey by Robert 
de Vallibus under Roger Bigot. In 1237 the manor seems to have been 
vested in Patrick de Chaories, and in the time of Hen. VIII. in Robert 
Norton, who in 1547 levied a fine of the manor against John Throkmorton 
and others.^ A fine of the manor had been levied three years earlier by 
Christopher Player against this John " Throkmorton " ^ From Robert 
Norton' the manor passed in 1561 to his son and heir Walter Norton. In 
1580 a fine was levied of the manor by Edmund Bedingfield and others 
against this Walter Norton, probably by way of settlement,^ for later we 
find the manor vested in Henry Norton, Walter's son. The lordship 
passed to Robert Brown in the time of Charles II., and he held his first 
court in 1681. In 1693 the manor was in George Fleetwood, and on his 
death in 1696 passed to his widow Sarah Fleetwood. The manor was 
acquired by Walter Plumer in 1724, and subsequently passed in the same 
course as the main manor. 

'Add. MSS. 19191. *Fine, Easter, 36 Hen. VIII. 

^1365-74 Add. Ch. 25971, 25978; 1366-7 5 See Manor of Bavent's, in Chediston, in 

Add. Ch. 25864 ; 1434-5 Add. Ch. this Hundred. 

25865. «Fine, Hil. 22Eliz. 
3 Fine, Mich, i Edw. VI. 



HALESWORTH. 



79 



The Rectory Manor. 

This was the manor belonging to Ulf the priest in the time of Edward 
the Confessor, and which Earl Alan at the time of the Survey claimed. 
SuckUng states that, " At a general court, hoi den on Saturday, the eve of 
Palm Sunday, in the 20th of Hen. VIIL, it was recited that at the last 
court the bailiff was ordered to seize half an acre of land, with parcel of a 
grange, and a tenement thereon built, and one piece of land called Marlpit- 
land, containing by estimation three roods ; after an alienation made 
thereof between William Norman and Margery, his wife, on the first part, 
and the town of Halesworth on the other part, twelve years since and 
more ; and that the said town had occupied the said, without licence of 
the lord. The lord re-granted the said premises to Alexander Fylley, &c. 
The manor is still appended to the rectory, and courts are held, and manorial 
rights exercised by the Rector. The Rectory Manor is mentioned in the 
terriers as a ' small manor belonging to the rectory, to which several free 
and copyhold tenants owe suit and service.' '" 



The rectors and lords from 1308 

Adam de Stanham 1308 

Joes de Ashton 1334 

William de TroUesbury .... 1338 

Joes Skencard^ 1371 

William Bachelor 1393 

Joes Bredford 1400 

William Hardy 1408 

Edward Lohton 1465 

Henry Boleyn 1471 

James Hutton 1479 

Radulphus Hyde 1490 

William Woderowe 1505 

Leonard Middleton 

Richard Henrison 1519 

Robert Woode 1532 

Robert Sturgis 

Lucas Taylor 1564 

John Argall 1580 



are as follows : — 

Abdias Ashton 1606 

James Ashton 1616 

John Swayne 

Samuel Jones 1671 

Thomas Shortrudge 1690 

John Beck 1722 

Thomas Anguish 1723 

Isaac CoUman 1736 

Thomas Forster 1746-7 

Isaac Avarne 1786 

William Cross 1820 

Richard Whately 1822 

Jos. Badeley 1831 

Aug. Fred. Phipps 1835 

Jos. Charles Badeley 1839 

R. E. Hankinson 

Vincent John Stanton .... 

Abbot Roland Upcher 1889 



' Hist, of Suff. ii. 332. 



'He is mentioned in the Court Rolls of 
Peasenhall, 51 Edw. HI., as " Johes 
psona de Halesworth." MSS. 
Jermyn and Davy. 




8o THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

HEN HAM. 
gENHAM is now a hamlet of Wangford. At the time of 
the Norman Survey it was the estate of Ralph Bainard. 
He had a freeman Alwin holding by commendation i caru- 
cate of land as a manor. On this manor there were always 
4 villeins, a mill, and i6 goats. 

In Saxon times there were ii villeins, 2 ploughteams 
in demesne, and later one only, also 5 ploughteams belonging 
to the tenants ; wood for the support of 40 hogs, but only 4 hogs and 20 
sheep, and half an acre of meadow. By the time of the Survey, the bordars 
had increased to 14, the ploughteams in demesne had again risen to 2, but 
those of the tenants had decreased to 3. 

Additionally there were a rouncy, 8 beasts, and 4 hives of bees, and 
the hogs had increased to 14 and the sheep to 40. The value had remained 
the same in Saxon and Norman times at 40s. The King and the Earl had 
the soc, and the manor was at the time of the Survey held by Robert of 
Blythborough' in exchange. 

The Manor of Henham. 

Ralph Bainard's estate was forfeited by his grandson William, the son 
of Jeffrey Bainard, for taking part with HeUas, Earl of Ma5nie, and others 
against King Hen. I. 

We find from the Close Rolls of King John that Cardo de Fressunvill 
or Freskenville held the manor in the early part of that monarch's reign,^ 
for there is an Order in 1213 to give seisin of the manor to John Marescall, 
the same having been held by Cardo de Fressunvill.^ 

We learn further from Testa de Nevill that this John Marescall held in 
the time of Hen. HI. the manor by the service of one knight's fee.* Later in 
the same reign it appears to have passed to Hugh de Vere, Earl of Oxford, for 
it is mentioned in his inquis. p.m. in 1264, and an extent of the manor given. ^ 

Henham about this time became divided into two manors, one known 
as Henham and the other as Craven's, both being held of the Barony of 
Bainard by knight's service. Apparently Roger fitz Osbert had one of 
these manors and Camilla de Wangeford (holding a knight's fee) and 
Thomas de Craven (holding half a knight's fee) had the other. ^ 

The family of Kerdeston, which had a considerable portion of the for- 
feited Bainard estates,held the main manor of Henham for some centuries. 
About the year 1250 the lands of Sir Fulk de Kerdeston in Henham are 
recognised in certain grants of his contemporaries to the Prior of Wangford, 
and in 1267 William de Kerdeston had a grant of free warren here.^ 

In 1328 Roger de Kerdeston^ held the manor, for we find an order on 
the Close Rolls this year to deliver to Joan late wife of Robert le fitz Wautier 
in dower a moiety of a fee in Henham and Stoven held by Roger de 
Kerdeston of the yearly value of 405.^ Roger died seised of the manor 
in 1337," leaving the same to Maud his wife, who survived him, and who 
had it for her dower with other estates. 

On the Close Rolls for 1337 is an order to deUver to Matilda, late wife 
of Roger de Kerdeston, tenant in chief assigned in dower, the Manor of 

'Dom. ii. 414&, 415. 5I.P.M., 48 Hen. III. 26. 

^1210-12, Red Book of the Exchequer, ^T. de N. 290. 

132&. ''Chart. Rolls, 51 Hen. HI. 11, 7. 

3 Close Rolls, 15 John pt. ii. 5,with advowson s See Manor of Bulchamp, in this Hundred. 

of Church, &c., 16 John pt. ii. 11. ^ Close Rolls 2 Edw. III. 7. 

^T. de N. 283. •» Extent, I.P.M., 11 Edw. III. 45. 



HENHAM. 81 

Henham, extended at 105s. S^d. yearly, and the Manor of Stratford extended 
at 67s. g^d. yearly.' After her death the lordship descended to his son 
and heir Sir William Kerdeston, who died seised of it in 1361, when it 
apparently passed to his son, Sir William de Kerdeston, for he was in 
1365 returned as holding the Manors of Henham and Bulchamp of the 
Duke of Clarence and Lord Say. 

Sir William Kerdeston entered into the agreement of 1371, set out in 
the account of Bulchamp Manor in this Hundred, and obtained in 1378 
from the King confirmation of a charter 51 Hen. HI., being a grant of free 
warren in Henham to WiUiam de Kerdeston.^ He died in the reign of 
Rich, n., when he was succeeded by his son. Sir Thomas de Kerdeston. 
The Davy MSS. state that this Sir Thomas was illegitimate,' and that he 
released his right in the manor to Matilda, wife of Thomas Chaucer, who 
died in 1437 ; and they make William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, lord in 
1442 in right of his wife Ahce, next heir of Sir Thomas de Kerdeston, and 
daughter and heir of Thomas Chaucer. Suckling's statement is somewhat 
different. He asserts that in the 20th Hen. VI. [1442] Thomas de 
Kerdeston, Knt., released to William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk and AUce his 
wife, all his right in the Manors of Bulchamp and Henham, &c., in exchange, 
as it would appear, for their claims on the Manor of Kerdeston in Norfolk. 

This Alice, Countess of Suffolk, was daughter and heir of Sir Thomas 
Chaucer, son of the poet by Maud his wife, granddaughter of Sir William 
de Kerdeston. Maud was, in fact, daughter and coheir of John Burghersh 
by Maud his wife, daughter of Sir William Kerdeston and Margaret his 
2nd wife, daughter of Edmund Bacon. Sir Thomas de Kerdeston held 
the fourth part of a knight's fee in Henham of John Fitz Walter, and 
left a daughter Elizabeth, married to Sir Terry Robsart,'' whose descendant 
claimed an interest in the Manors of Henham and Bulchamp, holding them 
of the Honor of Clare by the service of two parts of a knight's fee. 

The manor is certainly included in the inquisition p.m. of Matilda or 
Maud, wife of Thomas Chaucer in 1436, and an extent is given, ^ and it is 
also included in that of WiUiam de la Pole, late Duke of Suffolk in 1449.* 
In the inquisition p.m. of Sir Thomas Kerdeston in 1450 the jury found that he 
died not seised of the Manors of Henham, Bulchamp, and Stratford in Suffolk, 
but that William de la Pole, late Duke of Suffolk, and Alice his wife, in her 
right, entered on and took the profits during the life of Sir Thomas, and that 
Alice, late wife of the said Duke, and Sir John Howard, were his next heirs.'' 

In 1424 a fine had been levied between Thomas Chaucer and Maud his 
wife, querents, and Sir Thomas Kerdeston and Elizabeth his wife, defor- 
ciants, of several lordships conveyed to Maud, who with her husband re- 
settled them on Sir Thomas and Elizabeth in tail, to be held of the heirs 
of Maud. In 1475 Alice, the Duchess of Suffolk, is said to have been seised of 
the Manor of Henham, &c., and John de la Pole inherited the same, but 
possibly this might mean the overlordship only. 

On the attainder of Edmund de la Pole, who was beheaded in 1513, 
this lordship or the overlordship, as the case may be, escheated to the 
Crown, and was granted by Hen. VIII. to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, 
in exchange for the dissolved abbey at Leiston. 

'Close Rolls, II Edw. III. pt. ii. ig. •*He died 9th December, 1496, seised 

*Pat. Rolls, 2 Rich. II. pt. i. 24. apparently of the Manor of Hen- 

^ It was his father William who was alleged ham, leaving William his son and heir. 

to be illegitimate. See Bulchamp, ^I.P.M., 15 Hen. VI. 53. 

in this Hundred. n.P.M., 28 Hen. VI. 25. 

7I.P.M., 29 Hen. VI. 31. 



82 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

Whatever the actual interest of Alice, Duchess of Suffolk, of her son 
John de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, and grandson Edmund, Duke of Suffolk, 
might have been, Charles Brandon appears to have actually held the manor 
in possession. Possibly he acquired this in some way under the fine levied 
of the manor in 1535 by Sir Humfrey Wyngefeld and others against John 
Robsart, son and heir of Sir Terry Robsart, who had married Elizabeth, 
daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Kerdeston.' John Robsart would have 
been the person entitled under the settlement of 1424. 

Suckling says that on Charles Brandon's death in 1545 the manoragain 
became Royal property, but this does not seem to be correct, for from 
the State Papers in 1538 we learn that the Duke of Suffolk sold the manors of 
Henham and Craven's to the King,' when Sir Arthur Hopton, of Bly thburgh, 
was appointed housekeeper at Henham Hall, then the King's demesne. 

Hopton, however, was enfeoffed of the manor, for in the same year 
he conveyed it to Sir Anthony Rous,^ Knt., of Dennington, in Suffolk, who, 
on the 28th August, 1533, had been appointed Comptroller of Calais." 

The original deed of conveyance of the house is preserved amongst 
the evidences at Henham, and a transcript is given by Suckling.^ 

Sir Anthony Rous married Agnes, daughter of Thomas Blennerhasset, 
of Frense Hall, co. Norfolk, and he was appointed by Queen Mary one of 
the Quorum for Suffolk " who did usually sit on the bench at assizes and 
sessions among other justices, cincta gladio."^ Sir Anthony Rous died 
8th Feb. 1545, when the manor passed to his eldest son, Thomas Rous, who 

married ist Catherine, daughter and heir of Gyles Hansard, of 

in Lincolnshire, and by her had no issue. He married 2ndly Anne, 
daughter and coheir of Sir Nicholas Hare, of Bruisyard, Knt., Master of the 
RoUs, and by her had issue. Sir Thomas Rous, his son and successor, and died 
in 1573. Sir Thomas Rous, the son, married Parnel, daughter of Sir John 
Goodwyn, Knt., of Winchendon, co. Bucks., and hadissue a son. Sir John Rous. 

On the death of Sir Thomas Rous 9th July 1603 the manor passed to his 
widow Patronella or Parnel, and eventually on her death in 1619 to the son. 
Sir John. He resided at Henham Hall, and married Elizabeth, daughter of 
Sir Christopher Yelverton, of Easton, in the county of Northampton, Knt., 
Lord Chief Justice of England, and had issue four sons and two daughters. 

Sir John Rous, the eldest surviving son, succeeded to the manor on 
the death of his father in 1652, and was advanced to the dignity of a 
Baronet, 17th Aug. 1660. He served as burgess in Parliament for Dunwich 
in 1 661, and married twice, ist Anne, daughter of Sir Nicholas Bacon, of 
GilUngham, co. Norfolk, Bart., by whom he had no issue, and 2ndly, 
Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Knyvett, of Ashwell-Thorp, co. Norfolk, and 
by her had, with other issue, a son Sir John. Sir John Rous, 2nd, Bart., 
succeeded to this manor on the death of his father, and was Sheriff for 
Suffolk in 1681. He married ist Philippa, daughter of Thomas Bedingfield, 
of Darsham Hall, granddaughter of Sir Thomas Bedingfield, Knt., one of the 
judges of the Court of Common Pleas in the time of Charles I. He married 
2ndly Anne, daughter of Robert Wood, of Kingston-on-Thames, co. Surrey, 



2 



'Fine, Mich. 27 Hen. VIII. ^Hist. ot Suff. vol. ii. p. 350. Particulars 

*S.P. 1538, i, 1329. of the manor for a grant to Sir 

3 His descent from Robert Rous in 1305 Anthony Rous, 37 Hen. VIII. are 

is given in the account of Wathers- referred to in the loth Report of 

dale Manor, Laxfield in Hoxne the Deputy Keeper of the Public 

Hundred. Records, App. ii. p. 263. 

■* Carta orig. pen. the Earl of Stradbroke. *Harl. 980. 



HENHAM. 83 

and on his death in April, 1730/ the manor passed to his son and heir, 
Sir John Rous, 3rd Bart., who served in Parliament for Dunwich, and died 
the February following" his father's death unmarried, when the manor 
passed to his half-brother. Sir Robert Rous, 4th Bart. 

He married Lydia, daughter of John Smith, of Holton, and dying at 
Bristol in June, 1735,^ the manor passed to his son and heir. Sir John Rous, 
5th Bart., M.P. for Suffolk in 1768. He married 5th June, 1749, Judith, 
daughter and heir of John Bedingfield, of Beeston, co. Norfolk, and died 
31st Oct. 1771, when the manor passed to his son and heir. Sir John Rous, 
6th Bart., M.P. for Suffolk from 1780 to 1796, when he was created a peer 
14th June, 1796, as Baron Rous of Bennington, and elevated to the dignity 
of Viscount Dunwich and Earl of Stradbroke, i8th July, 1821. He married 
1st in 1788 Frances Juliana Warter, only daughter and heir of Edward 
Warter- Wilson, of Bilboa, co. Limerick, by Frances Anne Freke, daughter 
of George Evans, 2nd Baron Carbery ; and 2ndly in 1792 Charlotte 
Maria, daughter of Abraham Whittaker, of Stratford, co. Essex, and dying 
17th Aug. 1827,* the manor passed to his son and heir, Sir John Edward 
CornwaUis Rous, 2nd Earl of Stradbroke. He married 26th May, 1857, 
Augusta, widow of Colonel Henry Frederick Benham, daughter and coheir 
of the Rev. Sir Christopher John Musgrave, 9th Bart., of Eden Hall, in 
Cumberland, and dying 27th Jan. 1886,^ the manor passed to his son and 
heir, George Edward John Mowbray Rous, 3rd Earl of Stradbroke, Viscount 
Dunwich and Baron Rous of Dennington, A.D.C., to the King who in 1898 
married Helena Violet AHce, daughter of Lieut.-Gen. James Keith Eraser, 
C.M.G., and is the present lord. 

Henham Hall was entirely destroyed by fire 8th May, 1773. The 
Hall and furniture were uninsured, and the loss estimated at ;£3o,ooo. 
Suckling says tales were current after the event, which, without founda- 
tion, ascribed the destruction of the house to the malignity of the papists ; 
but the awful occurrence is more clearly shown to have arisen from the 
carelessness of a drunken butler, who, while robbing the cellar during his 
master's absence in Italy, set fire to the sawdust in one of the wine bins. 
This unfaithful domestic, on viewing the disastrous scene produced by his 
owij worthlessness, immediately fled into Devonshire, where he assumed 
another name, and was never heard of afterwards. There is in the posses- 
sion of the Earl of Stradbroke a small water-coloured drawing of the 
principal front of the mansion, made shortly before the fire. The exterior 
walls from their great strength, resisted the power of the flames, but the 
windows, roof, and inner shell appear to have been entirely consumed. 
Little, comparatively speaking, of the furniture and enrichments of the house 
escaped destruction. A few portraits were rescued, and a fine old wassail bowl. 

A stately mansion was erected on the site, and is the seat of the present 
Earl of Stradbroke. 

Arms of Stradbroke (Rous) : Sa. a fesse dancettee, Or between three 
crescents, Arg. 

The Manor of Cravens. 

Sir Thomas Craven, in the time of Hen. IIL, obtained from the Prior 
and monks of Wangford permission to appoint a chaplain to perform 
Divine service in his mansion house at Henham. A transcript of the deed 
is given by Mr. Suckling in his History of Suffolk.^ Sir Thomas Craven 

'He was buried at Wangford, 15th April. * Will proved September, 1827. 

"He was buried loth Feb., 1730. ^'Wiil proved Ipswich, 19th Mar., 1886. 

^He was buried at Wangford, i8th June. ^Vol. ii. p. 351. 



84 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

died seised of the manor in 1267, and was succeeded by his son and heir, 
Thomas de Craven, who had a grant of free warren here this year.' 

Two actions are mentioned on the Patent Rolls of Edw. I. brought by 
Stephen Bond, one against this Thomas de Craven, and the other against 
him and his son Robert, touching tenements in Henham.^ 

In the time of Edw. I. Thomas died and was succeeded by his son and heir. 
Sir Thomas Craven, though Davy states that in 13 16 WiUiam lUegard was lord. 
It is, however, certain that in 1329 Sir Thomas Craven held the lordship, and on 
his death it passed to his daughter and heir Ahce, married to Edward Berry. 

In the early part of the succeeding century the Manor of Cravens 
was held by the family of Micklefield, who resided at Blythford. WilHam 
Micklefield, of Blythford,^ by deed dated at Henham, the day next after 
the feast of St. John Baptist, in the 8th of Hen. VI. [1430] grants to William 
Phelyp, Knt., John Heveningham, junior, Knt., William Gernham, clerk, 
Richard Daniell, clerk, WiUiam Brasier, clerk, Robert Banyard de Spectis- 
hall, and William Hoo de Wyssete, his manor called Cravenes in Henham, 
with its tenement, woods, pastures, rents, &c., and other its appurtenances 
thereto belonging in the towns of Henham, Blythborough, Bulchamp, 
Sotherton, Donewych, Wangfield, Reydon, Brampton, Westhall, and 
Blyford, to have and to hold, &c. Witnesses, Thomas Kerdeston, Knt., 
John Shardelow, Esq., and others."* This William Micklefield held in 
Henham half a knight's fee of John Fitz Walter, " which Richard de 
Cravenne lately held," and by his will, dated at Henham, in 1439, and 
proved on the last day of June, 1441, devised the Manor of Craven's to 
John Ulverstone, his wife's son, under the following conditions : — 

" First, I will and preye that my wif shal have, bi terme of her lif, al 
my maner callid Cravenes in Heneham, with all the membris and ptin. thereto 
longyng in Heneham, Wangeford, Bregge, and alle wher, wheche late wer 
Thomas Cravene, except all that tent, callid Middelton's, with certen londs 
lying therebi, wheche I have assigned and bondid therto, to the value of 
X marc yerli, and also x acr. of Ressefen and Redfen, at Bregge, with 
fre entr. chas. and rechas ther to and fro, whiche tenement and londs, 
my perpos and will were to annexe to my maner of Blyford to my heir in 
exchange and satisfacon for the maner of Mikelfeld of my inheritaunce 
whiche maner of Mykelfeld I have graunted bi my dede to John Ulvestone 
and to his heirs in recompense and satisfaccon for cc marks whiche Thomas 
Ulvestone his fadir befor payid for the seyd Maner of Cravens, and the 
reversione of the same Maner of Cravenes. I will that John Ulverstone shalle 
have it after the decesse of my seid wif, his moder, with all the ptin, except 
those before except if he be lykehym to have it, fyndyng sufficiaunt suretee 
to my feoffees and executors such as thei can gree for, to paye hem therfor 
v]c marcs of lawful money of Inglelond within 3 yeres. 

" And if my brothir Robert Mickelfild, or any of my heyres or of his 
refuse and denye to have this seid tenement called Middeltons with the 
lands before released in exchange and reward for the Manor of Mikelfeld 
lyk as I have before assigned, but will clayme or enter into the same maner 
of Micklefeld thanne I will my seid sone John Ulverstone have the same 
tenement with the Maner of Cranes with the londs before seid thereto or 
assigned as to the same Maner annexed in exchange and satisfacon for the 
seid Maner of Mekilfeld, and in recompense for the seid x. acr. of Resshefy 
and Redfen annexed to the seid Maner of Blyford I will that the same 
John Ulverstone shall have to the seid bargayne with the maner of 
Cravenes certeyn londs and tenements whiche late I purchasid of Sleple Sir 

'Close Rolls, 51 Hen. III. pt. i. 7. ^See Manor of Blythford, in this Hundred 

" Pat. Rolls, 4. Edw. I. 25^, ^d. ♦ Ex cart. orig. Brit. Mus. 



HENHAM. 



85 



his cohre, and of Nichol Randeken and John Howard by ij. chies with the 
ptin in Heneham to him and to his heirs in fee symple And if the seid 
John Ulverstone deye before this bargayne accordid suretie thus mad or 
ell voyde And refuse the seid bargayne of the seid Maner of Cravenes 
under this forme to be had And all an annuitie of x^. be yere whiche was 
grauntedto him and to his heirs out of the same maner of Cravenes as for his 
surete of the seid Maner of Mekilfeld." 

A commission will be found amongst the Harleian MSS. in the Brit. 
Mus. for restoring the manor to John Ulverston. It is dated 6th June.' 

In 1473 Sir John Heveningham, Knt., John Hoptone, William 
Harlestone, and John Hey done, who were probably trustees, released the 
manor to Sir William Brandon, Knt., and EUzabeth, his wife, Robert 
Wyngfelde, Knt., Richard Suthwek, John Tymperley, John Straunge, and 
John Grymmes. The deed is dated 12th Jan. 13 Edward IV.' 
Elizabeth seems to have survived, and by her will dated in 1496 
and proved in 1497 gave the manor to Sir Robert Brandon, her son. 
In 1520 we meet with a fine levied of the manor by William, Archbishop 
of Canterbury and others against Sir Robert Brandon and others. 
Sir Robert died without issue in 1524, and was succeeded by his 
nephew and heir. Sir Charles Brandon, the well-known Duke of Suffolk. 
He in 1527 levied a fine of the manor against John Inglosse and others,^ 
but it was acquired from the Duke in 1538 by Hen. VIII.'' 

The manor subsequently passed or was granted to Sir Anthony Rous, 
Knt., and passed from him to his son and heir, Thomas Rous. By an 
inquisition taken at Hoxne 20th May, 1573, Thomas was found to have 
died 20th February, 1571-2, seised of the manor of Henham cum Craven's 
and Southerton, alias Sotterton, &c., held of the Crown in capite by the 
twentieth part of a knight's fee and 47 shillings and 9 pence rent, valued 
at £60.^ Thus united with the lordship of Henham, the Manor of Cravens 
has passed in a like course to its present possessor, the Earl of Stradbroke. 

Grants of this manor will be found in 1424, 1439, 1441, and 1473, 
amongst the Cotton Charters in the Brit. Mus.,® and a fine was levied of a 
Manor of " Hinham," which may possibly be this manor, in 1292 by John 
Bacon against Fulco de Cravene.'' 




The Old Hall, Henham. 



'Harl. 433. 

'Harl. 41 F. 3. 

3 Fine Easter, 19 Hen. VIII. 

* Fine, Trin. 30 Hen. VHI. 



'Cole's Escheat, v. ii. p. 137, cited by 

Suckling, ii. 354. 
^Cott. xxvii. 93, Cott. iv. 34, Cott. xii. 25, 42. 
'Feet of Fines, 20 Edw. I. 30. 




86 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

HENSTEAD. 

^N Saxon times Henstead was a hamlet of Wrentham, and was 
so regarded at the time of the Great Survey. A carucate 
of land was occupied by 4 villeins and 9 bordars, one plough- 
team was employed on the demesne land and two were 
kept by the tenants. There were 6 cows^ 40 sheep, 12 hogs, 
20 goats, and its value was 20s. Before the time of the 
Survey 2 freemen had been added with 30 acres of land, and 
they had one ploughteam m demesne and their holding was valued at 3s. 
The lands were held by Godfrey de Petro Ponte or Pierpoint under William 
de Varennes, the tenant in chief ; the extent was 3 leagues in length and 
2 in breadth, and it rendered in a gelt 2s. The King had the sac and soc 
except over Maiden's demesne.' 

Henstead in later times became divided between two manors, that of 
Henstead, Perpounds, or Poynings, and the Manor of Blundeston's or 
Savags and Henstead. Up to 1397 the manor was held of the descendants 
of William de Warennes, the Domesday tenant in chief, but from that year, 
when Richard Fitz Allan, his heir, was beheaded, it was held direct from 
the Crown by knight's service. 

Manor of Henstead, Perpounds als. Poynings. 

The tenant holding at the time of the Domesday Survey was a member 
of an old Picardy family, deriving his name from the town of Pierrepont in 
that province. This Godfrey de Pierpont's descendant. Sir Simon de 
Pierpont, was lord in 1271, when he obtained a grant of free warren in his 
estates in Benacre, Wrentham and Henstead." He was a knight of some 
renown, and remarkable for his attachment to Hen. IH. It is doubtful if 
he survived his royal master, for in 1272 we meet with a grant of free 
warren here in favour of Lucas or Luke de Poynings,^ and three years later 
one in favour of Robert de Pierpoint. 

It does not appear clear that Lucas de Poynings did actually hold the 
lordship at any time, yet from the name of the manor, and the fact of his 
living in the time of Edw. I., when so many manors received their names, 
which have survived to the present day, of his having had a grant of free 
warren here, it is not unlikely both Lucas de Poynings and Robert de 
Pierpont had some interest in the manor. Lucas did not, it is clear, agree 
with Robert de Pierpont, his contemporary, for on the Patent Rolls of 
Edw. I. we meet with two actions between them, one by Lucas de Poynings 
or Ponmges against Robert de Pierpont or Perepund and others, touching 
a tenement in Henstead,^ and the other by Robert de Pierpont against 
Lucas, also touching a tenement in Henstead.^ Robert de Pierpont 
certainly seems to have held the lordship, and to have been succeeded by 
his son and heir, Henry de Pierpont, who in his turn was succeeded by his 
son and heir. Sir Henry de Pierpont, who died in 1292,^ when the manor 
passed to his son and heir, 3ir Robert de Pierpont. Sir Simon de Pierpont 
presented to the church of Henstead in 1316. 

Who this Simon was is not clear, or why or how the manor became 
vested in him does not appear. There was a Simon, brother of Sir Robert, 

'Dom. ii. 3996. •'Pat. Rolls, I Edw. 1.9. 

'Chart. Rolls, 56 Hen. III. i. ^Pat. Rolls, 2 Edw. I. 9. 

3 Chart. Rolls, 56 Hen. III. i. ^See Manor of Benacre, in this Hundred. 



HENSTEAD. 87 

but he could not have inherited from Sir Robert^ as Sir Robert left issue. 
Again, the Simon who did hold the manor was succeeded by his son, and 
this Simon, the brother of Sir Robert, was summoned to Parliament as a 
Baron in 1294, and left issue a daughter only, married to Edmund de 
Ufford, father of William de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk. There was another 
Simon, probably a cousin, the son of Robert, who was most likely the 
brother of Henry de Pierrepont, grandfather of Sir Robert and father of 
Sir Henry, who died in 1292. This Simon, who presented to the Uving in 
1316, was succeeded by his son, John Pierrepont, who married Ela, the 
daughter of Sir William de Calthorpe, which WiUiam settled the Manor of 
Hurst Pierpoint in Sussex upon the said John and Ela on their marriage 
in 1331. 

The course of the descent of the manor from the time of John de Pierpont 
is not very clear, but it no doubt passed on the death of John to his daughter 
and heir, Ehzabeth, married to Sir Thomas Dacre, Knt., and from them to 
their daughter and heir Joan, married to Sir Richard Fienes, Knt., and on 
the death of Joan in i486 to her grandson and heir Thomas Fienes, Lord 
Dacre. 

On his death the manor passed to his daughter Margaret, married to 
Lord Williams of Thame, and from her to her daughter and coheir Margaret, 
married to Henry, Lord Norrys, and they sold the manor to Humphrey 
Brewster, of Wrentham. 

Humphrey Brewster sold the manor by deed dated 29th March, 1585, 
to William Sydnor, of Blundeston. The particulars of the deed as given 
by Suckling are, " all that Manor of Henstede, ah. Henstede perpounds, 
lying and being in Henstede, in the county of Suffolk, and all and singular 
the lands, &c., with the appurtenances situate, lying, &c., in Henstede afore- 
said, now customary or copyhold, holden of the said manor ; and of the several 
manors of Northhall and Southhall, in the county of Suffolk, or of either and 
each of them, and all the rights, title, &c., and all other my manors, &c., 
in Henstede, which I lately had and purchased to me and my heirs, by a 
bargain and sale of the noble Henry Norrys, Knt., Lord Norris of Riscott, and 
Arthur Chowte, gent., or either of them. And all and singular the 
messuages, &c., except certain lands, rents, and services before sold by 
Lord Norrys, and the Lady Margaret his wife, to William Sydnor, Hum- 
phrey Yarmouth, and others, &g. To have, hold, and enjoy the aforesaid 
manor of Hensteade, a/s. Henstede perpounds, and all and singular, &c., 
to the said William Sydnor, in fee of the chief lords, &c. W^arranty of 
the said manor from Brewster, against himself and others, and against 
the noble Gregory Fynes, Lord Dacre, Henry Norrys, Knt., Lord Norris 
of Riscott, and the Lady Margaret, wife of the said Lord Henry, and 
against Arthur Chowte, gent., and against the heirs and assigns of each 
of them.'" 

In Michaelmas Term, 1587, a fine was levied of the manor by William 
Sydnor, plaintiff, against Humfrey Brewster and Alice his wife, and John 
Brewster, deforciants, the particulars being, " the manor of Henstede, 
alias Henstede perpownds, with the appurtenancies, and of 8 messuages, 
8 gardens, 30 acres of land, 30 acres of meadow, 20 of pasture, 40 acres of 
alder, and lOOs. rent., with the appurtenances of Henstede."* 

'Suckling, ii. 371. *76. 372. 



88 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

Amongst the Chancery Proceedings of the time of Q, Elizabeth will 
be seen a claim by Simon Fayreweath as heir against this William Sydnor 
to lands held of Henstead Manor, sometime the estate of John Fayreweather, 
plaintiff's grandfather.' 

William Sydnor died in 1613, and the manor passed to his grandson 
and heir WiUiam Sydnor, of Blundeston. He died in 1632, leaving eight 
daughters and coheiresses. 

By an inquisition taken at Eye, i6th of January, 1633, and by another 
taken at Bungay, 29th May, 1634, upon the death of William Sydnor, he 
was found to have died 13th January, 1632, seised, inter alia, of the Manor of 
Henstead, with view of frankpledge, &c., in that village, and in Wrentham, 
Benacre, Sotterley, &c., and the advowson of the church of Henstead, 
valued at 60s. 

The manor was no doubt sold shortly after William Sydnor's death, 
and was acquired by Sir Robert Brooke, of Yoxford, who presented to the 
Church of Henstead in 1662, and died about 1668. In 1687 the manor was 
vested in Henry Mildmay, of Strawford, in the parish of Twyford, Hampshire, 
who by a codicil annexed to his will and dated 3rd Nov. 1704, devised the 
manor and other estates as follows : " Imprimis, I do hereby devise, limit 
and appoint all those my manors of Henstead and Henstead Pounds and 
Poynings,in the parish of Henstead and other parishes, and all my freehold and 
copyhold estates in Suffolk, with their and every their rights, &c., unto Anne 
Halliday, widow and relict of Samuel Halliday, my kinsman, late of London, 
wine-cooper, deceased, and Richard Crane, of London, upholsterer, brother 
to the said Anne, to hold the said premises to them, or the survivors of 
them, their heirs and assigns, for ever, in trust, to pay and apply the 
rents, &c., to and for the maintenance and education of Apphia HalUday, 
daughter of the said Anne, until she attain the age of eighteen years, or 
marry, as foUoweth, to and with Richard Halliday, son of Richard HalHday, 
a clothier of Bradford, in the county of Wilts, and when such marriage is 
effected, I do appoint my said trustees, &c., shall stand and be seised of the 
said premises to and for the use of the said Apphia HaUiday and her 
appointed husband for their lives ; and after their decease to the eldest or 
only son of their bodies, lawfully begotten ; and after his decease to the eldest 
grandson of Apphia and the heirs male of such grandson. And for default 
of such issue, to the sole benefit of my granddaughter, Letitia Mildmay 
and her right heirs for ever. But if the said Apphia shall happen to die 
before her marriage, as aforesaid, then my said trustee, Anne Halliday, 
shall receive the rents, &c., to her own use, dum sola et casta se gesserit ; 
that is to say, whilst she remains a widow, and then my said trustees and 
their heirs shall stand seised of the premises to and for the sole benefit of 
the said Richard HaUiday, the son, subject to the same settlement of 
father, son and grandson, as was before directed to the said Apphia if she 
had lived, and as if again repeated and set forth." 

Mr. Suckling gives the devolution practically as follows : Apphia 
married the said Richard HaUiday and had issue living at her husband's 
death, Mildmay, Robert, Anne, and Jane. Mildmay HalUday died in the 
Ufetime of his mother, without issue, but by wiU dated 1752 devised aU to 
his brother Robert. Robert and Jane died single. Anne HalUday, the 
sole surviving child and issue of the aforesaid Richard HaUiday, by Apphia 
his wife, married John Amyas of Beccles, and the manor and advowson 

'C.P. i. 324. 



HENSTEAD. 89 

of Henstead descended to the Rev. John Amyas, clerk, their son, who was 
instituted to the Rectory on 21st December, 1793. Mr. Amyas sold the 
advowson of Henstead to Robert Sparrow of WorUngham Hall, in 1799 
for £2,500, and afterwards disposed of the manor to Thomas Kett, of Seething, 
in Norfolk, who held his first court 13th November, 1801.' 

By this gentleman the manor was transferred to Charles Barclay, who 
married a daughter of Mr. Kett, and held his first court as lord 6th Septem- 
ber, 1811. Mr. Barclay sold the manor to Robert Sheriffe, the date of 
whose first court is igth Dec, 1834, from whom it passed by will to the Rev. 
Thomas Sheriffe, who ist June, 1842, held his first court as lord.^ He was 
Rector of Henstead, and died loth Oct. 1861, in his 71st year, when the 
manor passed to his son and heir Thomas Bowen Sheriffe, of Henstead 
Hall, Suffolk, and of Thurmaston Lodge, co. Leicester, and on his death 
nth Feb. 1864, passed to his only son Robert Thomas Oliver Sheriffe, by 
Madehne Ehzabeth, only child of Robert Mansel Ohver-Massey, of Tickford 
Abbey, Bucks, and of Kinrara, co Inverness. The manor was at Michael- 
mas, 1S94, sold by the said Robert Thomas Ohver Sheriffe to Robert H. 
Inglis Palgrave, of Belton, the present lord. 

A Court Roll of the manor in 1429 will be found amongst the Additional 
Charters in the Brit. Mus.,^ and an extract from another Court Roll of the 
same manor in 1538, 1622, 1675, and 1738 also in the same Collection.* 

Manor of Blundeston, Savages, and Henstead. 

This manor seems to have been held in the time of Hen. HI. by Roger 
de St. Denis, for no doubt the following entry in Testa de Nevill relates to 
this manor : " Rogs de Scb Dionesis tenet Hanestet p. servic. feodi di Mil."^ 
There is a similar entry also in the Red Book of the Exchequer 1210-12.* 

The family of St. Denis held land here and in the neighbouring village 
of WiUingham in the early part of the reign of Edw. H. In the time of 
Edw. III. the manor was held by Alan de Henstede, who in 1349 presented 
John de Hensted to the rectory. 

Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Phihp Branch, Knt., and widow of John 
Clere, of Ormesby, in Norfolk, who afterwards married Sir John Rothenhall, 
Knt., by her will dated i6th Oct. 1438, and proved 9th July, 1440, 
bequeathed to Robert Clere, her son, all her goods at Ormesby and to Edmund 
Clere, her son, all her goods at Caistor, and her Manors of Rothenhall, Claydon, 
and Henstead in Suffolk. 

Henry Boundes seems next to have held the lordship. He died in 
1479, when it passed to his son and heir, Robert Boundes, and later to Sir 
Robert Drury, Knt., who is said to have exchanged the manor for other 
property with Sir Wilham Clopton, Knt., of Long Melford, who died in 

1530. 

It is strange, therefore, that the Manor of Henstead and the advowson 
of the church is mentioned in the inquisition p.m. of his father, John 
Clopton, in 1497-8, and is then found to have been vested in the said John 
Clopton in fee, and held of the Abbot of St. Edmund by fealty and rent of 
40S. per annum. 

'The Rev. John Amyas died suddenly 'Suckling, ii. 373. 
i8th April, 1810, aged 62 years. ^^(^(j qj^ 25863. 
He was educated at Caius College, *Add. Ch. 10401, 10436, 10440, 10448. 



Cambridge, and proceeded to the ^ P. 283. 
degree of B.A. in 1770. ^ 132 B. 



M 



90 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

Sir William Clopton in his will dated 14th Oct. 1530, has the following 
provision as to the manor : " Also I will that my feoff es of and in my 
' manor of Henstede ' with appurtenances, and the advowson of the 
chirch of the said Manor of Hensted schall stond and be seasedand enfeoffed 
of the yerly revenues and profettes of the same maners of xx. markes by 
yere, and the saide advowson to thuse of the same Dame Thomasyne my 
wiffe during hir naturall liffe. And of all the reside w of issues and pro- 
feghtes of the same manor, during my said wyffes lyffe, and also of the saide 
XX. markes by yere after hir decesse. 1 will that my said feoffees of the same 
manor of Henstede with appurtenaunce, and ther heyres shall stand 
seased and enfeoffed therof to thuse of my excutors, unto such tyme as 
my executors have resaved of thissues revenues, and profettes of the same 
manor of Henstede, the summe of two hundreth powndes of lawfuU money 
of Englond, to dyspose for me in dedes of charite, for the weale of my soule, 
and all cristen soules. And after the decesse of my said wyffe, and also 
after the receyte of the same summe of two hundreth poundes to be recey ved, 
of the revenues, issues, and profettes, of the same manor of Henstede, 
item, I will that my saide feoffees and ther heyres schall be stond seased and 
disposed of any in the same to thuse of the same John Clopton for the terme 
of his lyffe and after his decesse to thuse of the heyres males of the body of 
the same John Clopton, lawfully begoten and for lacke of such issue to 
remayne to the heyres males of the body of me, the same William Clopton, 
knight, lawfully begoten." 

The testator further provides that " yf the same John Clopton my sonne, 
William Clopton sunne of the same John Clopton, or any other person or 
persons for them or in ther name or names of any of them or be ther procure- 
ment, consent stering or abbetting will, interrupt, vere, trouble, disturbe, or 
left the same Dame Thomas5me my wyffe, Frances Clopton and Richard 
Clopton my sonnes or any of them, to have peasible, levye, perceyve, and 
enjoye and take all the issues and profettes of the premisses or any parte or 
percell therof to them, and every of them before geven and assigned or 
doith interupte or lett my saide will to be performed in any poynt or con- 
dicion in maner and forme as is before writen and declared or that the same 
John Clopton or William his sonne, or any other be ther names, doith interupt 
or take any of my goodes, catteles, or other thinges other then be my 
testament maide concerning my moveable goodes be gyven and bequethed 
be my saide testament unto the same John Clopton, my sonne, then I will 
that my feoffes of and in my manor of Hensted with appurtenance and the 
advouson of the same chirch of Hensted schalbe and stond and seased and 
enfeoffed therof to thuse of the same Dame Thomasyne my wyffe during 
hir naturall lyffe and after hir decesse to thuse of Frances Clopton and 
Richard Clopton my sonnes, and to thuse of every of them to scale, and 
the mony therof cummyng of the same sale I will schalbe disposed by the 
same Frances and Richard my sonnes in dedes of charite for the weale of 
my soule and all cristen soules by ther discrecions and the same John 
Clopton my sonne and his heyres therof to be utterly excluded." 

The manor accordingly passed to Sir WiUianii's widow, Thomasine 
Clopton, for life, and subsequently to his son and heir John Clopton. 

In 1540 a fine of the manor was levied by Edward Weltere against the 
said John Clopton and others,' no doubt by way of settlement for 
John Clopton died seised in 1541' and the manor passed to his son' and 
heir WiUiam Clopton, who died in 1562. 

'Fine, Trin. 32 Hen. VIII. ''The manor is not mentioned in his will 

which bears date 5th October, 1541. 



HENSTEAD. 91 

On his marriage with Mary Peryent, William Clopton, by an arrange- 
ment between himself and Sir Humfrey Stile' and Nicholas Rookewoode, 
settled the manor on his (WiUiam's) wife for Ufe, and on the death of the 
said WilUam Clopton it passed, subject to his widow's Ufe interest, to his 
son and heir by his ist wife, Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Jermyn, of 
Rushbrooke, Francis Clopton, all of which is found in the inquisition p.m. 
of WilUam Clopton, taken at Bury St. Edmund's 2nd November, 1562.' 

Mary, the widow of Wilham Clopton, took for a 2nd husband George 
Barnardiston, of Nowell, co. Bedford, and being a widow again in 1576 
joined with the trustee of the settlement (probably that made on her first 
marriage, in whom the reversion was apparently vested, one Humphrey 
Yarmouth or Jermouth, of Henstead), in selling the manor to William 
Sydnor, of Blundeston. 

The deed of conveyance, the particulars of which are given by Suckhng, 
is dated ist Nov. 1576. 

This deed was acknowledged in Chancery 13th November, i8th Eliz. 

There seems to have been some dispute between Humphrey Yarmouth 
and William Sydnor a year or two before this sale, because amongst the 
Bodleian Charters is a quit claim or release by the former to the latter of 
all his right to cause of action against him. The deed is dated 2nd Aug. 
1574.^ We may mention here that in the Bodleian are two deeds, 
being grants of land in Henstead to this WilUam Sydnor — one from Richard 
Tallowes dated 3rd May, 1582, and the other from Edward Fleetcroft, 
dated 18th Nov. 1589.* From this period the devolution of the manor 
is the same as that of the main manor, but though in the same hands 
and owning the same lords for over three centuries, the two manors 
have always been kept distinct, and a separate homage sworn for each. 



'Sir Humphrey Stile was of Bromley, co, ''He was buried at Melford, 19th Aug. 
Kent, and married for his second 1562. 

wife Elizabeth, sister of Mary ^Bodl. Suff. Ch. 1194. 

Perient. See a letter of Robert "Bodl. Suff. Ch. 1195, 1196. 
Ryece dated 2nd February, 1637, 
in the D'Ewes collection. 




92 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

HEVENINGHAM. 

I HE main estate in this place was held in the Confessor's 
time by Stanwin, a freeman, whom the Hundred declared 
to be under commendation to Harold, but Stanwin himself 
declared that he was under the commendation of Edric, 
Robert Malet's predecessor in title, and Stanwin seems to 
have been of a determined character, for he offered wager of 
battle in defence of his statement. The estate consisted of 
one carucate of land and was held as a manor. There were 6 villeins, 4 
bordars, and 2 serfs, having two ploughteams in demesne and i^ belonging 
to the tenants. There were 3 acres of meadow, wood sufiicient for the 
support of 40 hogs, I rouncy, 4 cows, 10 hogs, 16 sheep, all of the value 
of 40S. By the time of the Domesday Survey the value had come down 
half, and there was but one plough team in demesne. The sheep however 
had increased by 4. The holding was half a league long, and 4 quarantenes 
broad, and paid in a gelt ^^d. The estate was then held by Anschetill 
of Roger Bigot as tenant in chief.' 

Another estate here was held by Ulfketel, a freeman under Roger 
Bigot, he having 24 acres of which Ulf had commendation. There were 
2 bordars and i ploughteam, wood sufficient for the support of 8 hogs, 
half an acre of meadow, and the fourth part of a church with an acre and a 
half valued at 8s. Of this estate the King and the Earl had the soc."" 

These estates became subsequently divided into three manors, that of 
Heveningham, Burton Haugh, and Blanchards. 

HEVENINGHAM MANOR. 

In the time of Rich. I. the manor and the advowson seem to have been 
held by Robert Fitz Walter, for we find in the Abbreviation of Pleas in 1194 
a claim made against him by WiUiam de Pirho or Pirhon on the ground that 
Robert had deforced him,^ and an action between the same parties in 1208, 
William de Pirho alleging that his father had made the last presentation 
to the living.* 

The Davy MSS. make Walter Fitz Robert, who died in 1198, lord, but 
this is probably a mistake. Most likely Walter fitz Robert did succeed, 
but he must have died later. Suckling however makes a similar assertion 
to Davy, and goes on to say that this Walter fitz Robert gave the advowson 
of the church at Heveningham to the monks of St. Neot's. 

The manor then seems to have passed to William de Heveningham, 
who married Cassandra, daughter of Sir Richard Verdon, Knt., from whom 
it passed to his son Sir Andrew Heveningham, who married Jos., daughter 
of Sir Richard Brance, and was the father of Sir Philip Heveningham, 
who married Lora, daughter of — Ufford, and had in 1271 a grant from 
the Crown of free warren in his Manors of Heveningham in Suffolk and 
Little Totham and Stepal in Essex.' 

The ancient family of Heveningham is stated by Morant, the historian 
of Essex, to have been lords here in the time of King Canute, about 1020, 
when he makes Galtir or Walter de Heveningham lord of the village, and 
Mr. Suckling gives a pedigree of the family from that period.^ It is clear 

'Dom. ii. 332. "* Abbr. of Pleas, 10 John, Hil. 9, in dorso. 

^Dom. ii. 334. 5 Chart. Rolls, 56 Hen. III. i. 

3Abbr. of Pleas, 6 Rich. I. 21. ejjist. of Suff. vol. ii. 386, 



HEVENINGHAM. 93 

however that they did not hold the lordship either in the time of Edward 
the Confessor or of WilHam the Conqueror, and the first of the family of 
whom we have any authentic record as holding the manor is the William 
de Heveningham above mentioned, in the time of Kmg John. He was the 
son of Sir Peter de Heveningham alleged to be the eighth in descent from 
the Canute " Heveningham-Galtir." 

Sir Phihp Heveningham, was succeeded in 1286' by his son Sir Roger, 
who married Cecily, daughter of Lord Morley. Suckling says, citing from 
the Jermyn and Davy MSS., " The arms of this family are thought to be 
compounded of those of the Veres, Earls of Oxford, with a bordure engrailed 
sable, charged with nine escallop-shells arg. — as holding their lands of 
that family ; and it is said that none of the Heveninghams used this coat 
before Sir John de Heveningham, Knt., son and heir of PhiUp ; and he sealed 
with them in 1385." Their crest is a Saracen's head and shoulders couped 
gules : on his head a cap or, turned up ermine, charged with three guttees de 
sang ; the origin of which bearing is ascribed to Sir William Heveningham, 
Knt., who, ' going with King Richard L overcame Safer, the daring Saracen, 
captain of the castle in Palestine. Since that they gave his head for a 
crest." '^ 

Sir Roger Heveningham was succeeded by his son. Sir Roger Hevening- 
ham, Knt., who married AUce West. On his death the manor passed to his 
widow AUce, and on her death in 1322,* to their son Sir Philip Heveningham, 
Knt., who married Joane, daughter and heir of John Jarvill, of Essex, and 
on his death the manor passed to his son, Sir John Heveningham, who 
married Maria, daughter^of — Hastings, and on his death passed to his son 
Sir Richard Heveningham, who married Eustace, daughter of Sir Philip 
Barningham, Knt., and was succeeded by his son Sir Thomas (? John) 
Heveningham, who married Joan, daughter and heir of Sir John Gissinge, 
Knt., and on his death the manor passed to Joan for life, and on her death 
in 1394^ went to their son Sir John, who married Joan, daughter of Roseter, 
and died in 1430. By his will dated 19th Aug. 1425, Sir John Heveningham 
desired his executors immediately on his decease to render to John 
Heveningham junior, his son, and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten, 
an account of the Manors of Eastworne and Sutton in the county of Essex and 
the Manor of Heveningham in Suffolk. The son. Sir John Heveningham, 
married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir John Redesham and died in 
1453. He was buried with his wife in the Church of Heveningham. 
SuckHng says of the tomb, " The effigy of the lady has disappeared, together 
with the entire tomb, but the figure of the knight remains in the tower of 
the church, consigned to neglect and decay. It is hollowed, and was 
prob9,bly filled with wood ashes for the purpose of absorbing the damp, 
and preserving the brilliancy of the colours with which it was originally 
painted.® The figure is, however, notwithstanding this precaution, cracked 
through the entire length of the body, and scarcely a tint remains, except 
under the right arm, where a portion of black may be seen, which formed 
the sable bordure of the knight's coat-armour. The two figures of oak 

'I.P.M., i4Edw. I. 14. 6 In Blomefield's account of Fersfield 

""MSS. Jermyn and Davy. Church (History of Norfolk) he 

^Suckling, Hist, of Suff. ii. 387. mentions the tombs of William du 

■•I.P.M., i6Edw. II. 36. Bois, priest, and Sir Robert du 

'I.P.M., Joan wife of Henry (?) Hevening- Bois, Knt, the effigies of whom 

ham, 18 Rich. II. 23. were discovered to be full of burnt 

coals. 



94 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

are noticed by Weever/ who mentions a third effigy of a female^ which he 
says was curiously painted and gilt."^ 

The manor then passed to Sir John's son and heir, Sir John Hevening- 
ham, whom married Alicia, daughter of Sir John Savil, Knt., and died in 
1499, when he was succeeded by his son and heir, Sir Thomas Heveningham, 
Knt. and Banneret, who married Ann, daughter and heir of Sir William 
Appleyard, of Ketteringham, in Norfolk, in whose right he succeeded to 
that manor, which subsequently became the principal seat of the Hevening- 
hams. 

Suckling informs us that this Thomas was a great favourite of Richard, 
Duke of Gloucester, afterwards Rich. III., who settled on him an annuity of 
£10 for life out of his Manor of Rothing Berners, in Essex. Thomas died in 
1501 (? 1499), and was buried in the chancel of the Church of Ketteringham by 
the side of his wife Ann. The manor then passed to his son. Sir John Hevening- 
ham, who married ist Katherine, daughter of Sir PhiUp Calthorpe, Knt., 
by whom he had no issue, and 2ndly Alice, daughter of Sir Ralph Shelton, of 
Shelton, co. Norfolk, and died 5th Aug. 1536,* not 1530 as stated by Blome- 
field and in the Davy MSS. 

A curious grant of a buck and doe out of his park at Heveningham, 
dated Oct. 8th, 1533, is given by SuckUng. 

Sir Anthony Heveningham, son and heir of Sir John and Alice his wife, 
succeeded to the manor, and was twice married. 

In 1546 he and Mary, his 2nd wife, daughter of Sir John Shelton, senior, 
of Shelton, Knt., held the Manors of Heveningham, Cookley, Sibton, Ubbes- 
ton, and Walpole in Suffolk, and those of Westbarrow Hall, of the Honor 
of Rayleigh, and Totham Parva and Goldaungre, in Essex, and this year 
Sir Anthony by fine settled upon himself and Mary his wife all the Suffolk 
lordships above mentioned.^ 

He died in 1556,^ and according to his wish was buried by his last wife 
under a tomb on the north side of the chancel of the Church of Hevening- 
ham, which has lost its inscription, but the arms of Heveningham, with 
helmet, crest, and supporters, and those of Shelton, with a helmet and crest 
and two tablets arg. collared and chained gu. for supporters, and the same 
two coats impaled remained in Blomefield's day. The manor passed to 
Sir Anthony's widow, Mary, for life, under the settlement of 1546. She 
remarried Philip Appleyard, and died in 1570. By this time the eldest son 
of Sir Anthony Heveningham by his first wife, Henry Heveningham, who, 
though married to Ann, daughter of Eden of Sudbury, had died without 
issue, as had also, according to some authorities, John Shelton Hevening- 
ham, Sir Anthony's 2nd son by his 2nd wife, and the manor passed to the 
son of this John Shelton Heveningham and grandson of Sir Anthony, Sir 
Arthur Heveningham, whom some authorities make to be the son and not the 
grandson of Sir Anthony. A fine was levied of this manor in 1600 by Thomas 
Hanchett and others against Sir Anthony (? Arthur) Heveningham.* Sir 

Arthur Heveningham married Mary, daughter of Hanchet, of an ancient 

Hertfordshire family. He was twice Sheriff of Norfolk, and received the 
honour of knighthood from King James, the 2nd January, 1617. He died 
8th October, 1630, and Ues buried near his wife, in the chancel at Kettering- 
ham. Sir John Heveningham, his son and heir, who had been enfeoffed 



2 



' Funeral Monuments. ^ipjyj^ ^^^^ 5, 5 and 6 Phil, and M. 
* Suckling ii. 396. D.K.R. 10 App. p. 130. 

3I.P.M., 28 Hen. VIII. 54. epine, Trin. 42 Eliz. 
*Fine, Mich. 38 Hen. VIII. 



HEVENINGHAM. 95 

of the Manor of Heveningham by his father in the year i6i2j was High 
Sheriff of Norfolk in 1615, and representative in Pariiament for that 
county in 1627. 

He married ist Catherine, daughter of Lewes, Lord Mordaunt, and 
2ndly Bridget, daughter of Christopher Paston, of Paston by Ann Audeley. 

He died 17th June, 1633, and was succeeded by WiUiam Heveningham, 
his son (by the second wife), who resided at Ketteringham and Hockwold, 
in Norfolk, and married ist Catherine, daughter of Sir Henry Wallop, ances- 
tor of the Earls of Portsmouth, by whom he had no issue ; and 2ndly, the 
Right Honourable the Lady Mary Carey, daughter of John, Viscount 
Rochford, and Earl of Dover. WiUiam Heveningham was High Sheriff 
of Norfolk in 1635. 

Amongst the Exchequer Depositions in the P.R.O. will be found a 
suit by this William Heveningham against WiUiam Vesey and others as 
to the Manor of Heveningham and N. Leet, S. Leet, E. Leet, W. Leet, 
Mutford, Lowestoft and Gorleston in 1637. 

This WilUam Heveningham was M.P. for Stockbridge in 1640, member 
of the Council of State in 1649, and Vice-Admiral of Suffolk in 1651. He 
was one of the self-appointed judges of King Charles L, though he refused 
to sign the warrant for his execution. At the Restoration he was tried 
with the other regicides, and convicted, whereupon all his manors and 
estates were forfeited ; but being one of those nineteen who surrendered 
themselves upon the proclamation of 6th June, 1660, he was pardoned, 
and had his life spared.' 

In the State Papers for 1661 we find a grant by the Crown to Brian, 
Viscount CuUen, and five others, of the manor and advowson, said then to 
be in the King's hands by the attainder of William Heveningham.'' How- 
ever, later in the same year William Heveningham's wife obtained a 
patent from Charles H. for the restoration of most of her husband's estates, 
particularly that of the Manor of Heveningham and the lordship of Ketter- 
ingham. He was stiU in confinement in 1662, for amongst the State Papers 
of this year we find a petition from Lady Mary Heveningham for the transfer 
of the place of his (her husband's) imprisonment from Windsor Castle to her 
own house at Ketteringham.^ 

He died in 1678, and was buried in a vault under the altar in the church 
of the latter place. " The coffin," says Blomefield, " of this traitor and his 
bones are now wholly broken to pieces, which seems to have been done 
designedly, for his head, or skull, is laid upon his wife's coffin, which is 
very entire." 

Lady Mary Heveningham, his widow, survived till Sunday, 19th Jan. 
1695, when she died at her house in Jermyn Street, London. Le Neve 
says, " Monday night, 3 Feb., I saw Lady Mary Heveningham lay in state 
at her house in Jermyn Street. She was, the 5th inst. carried out of town 
in state between twelve and one, through the city towards Keteringham, 
in Norfolk. Mr. Devenish saw the procession ordered with penons, esco- 
cheons, and four banner rolls, though her husband was attainted, being one 
of the regicides, WiUiam Heveningham, Esq., and never restored." 

Sir WilUam Heveningham, their son and heir, was knighted at White- 
hall, by Charles H. in 1674. He married Barbara, daughter of George 
Vilhers, Viscount Grandison, by whom he had issue Abigail, his sole heir, who 

'See D.N.B. xxvi. 302. ^S.P. 1662, p. 624. 

"S.P. 1661, 97. 



96 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

married Henry Heron, of Cressy. In the person of this lady the principal line 
of the family became extinct, though it lingered on for a few years in the 
male descent through a junior branch. 

About the year 1700 the Manor of Heveningham was sold by Henry 
Heron to John Bence. John Bence by his will dated 1718 devised the 
manor to his executors on trust for sale, which trust they exercised in 1719 
by selling to George Dashwood of London, who resided here in 1735, but who 
in 1745 aUenated the manor to Joseph Damer, afterwards Baron Milton, 
Earl of Dorchester, by whom it was transferred in 1752' to Sir Joshua 
Vanneck, Bart. He was the second son of Cornelius Vanneck, paymaster 
of the land forces of the United Provinces. Sir Joshua was an opulent 
merchant of the city of London, and created a Baronet 14th Dec. 1751. 
He married Mary Daubuz, and died 6th March, 1777, when the manor 
passed to his eldest son, Sir Gerrard Vanneck, who died unmarried 23rd 
May, 1791, when the manor passed with the title to his brother. Sir Joshua 
Vanneck, who, 29th May, 1777, married Maria, 2nd daughter of Andrew 
Thompson, of Roehampton, co. Surrey, and was created a Peer of Ireland 
7th July, 1796, by the title of " Baron Huntingfield of Hevenmgham Hall." 
He died I5tli Aug. 1816, aged 70,"* when the manor passed to his son and 
heir Joshua Vanneck, 2nd Baron Huntingfield, who married 2nd April, 
1810, ist Frances Catherine, daughter of Chaloner Arcedeckne, of Glevering 
Hall, and 2ndly 6th Jan. 1817, Lucy Anne, 3rd daughter of Sir Charles 
Blois, 6th Bart, of Cockfield Hall. He died loth August, 1844,^ when the 
manor passed to his eldest son, Charles Andrew Vanneck, 3rd Baron Hunting- 
field, High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1848. He married 6th July, 1839, Louisa, 
only daughter of Andrew Arcedeckne, and dying 21st September, 1897, the 
manor passed to his eldest son, Joshua Charles Vanneck, 4th Baron Hunting- 
field, of Heveningham Hall, Yoxford, the present lord. 

Arms of Heveningham : Quarterly Or. and Gules, in a bordure en- 
grailed, nine escallops, Argent. Of Vanneck : Argent, a torteaux between 
three bugle horns, Gules, stringed, Or. 

Suckhng gives a good account of the Hall.* 

Manor of Burton Haugh. 

We do not find any information respecting this manor till the time of 
Hen. VIII., when it belonged to Cardinal Wolsey's College at Ipswich. 
Mr. Suckling gives a copy of a lease of the manor made by this Society to 
Thomas R^ish. The lease is dated loth Sept. 21 Hen. VIII. [1529], and 
is for 21 years only. The manor no doubt reverted to the Crown, and we 
find that about 1550 it was vested in Lady Lucy Clifford, who in 1554 
parted with it to Edward More.' Edward More by a will dated in 1558 left 
it to his son John More. 

It is not clear whether the whole manor or two-thirds only of it passed to 
John, but probably the latter, for in 1570 he had hcence to aUenate two- 
thirds to Edward Derehaugh. In 1573 Ursula More had livery of a third part 
of the manor. 

In 1574 Edward Derehaugh had hcence to aUenate his two-thirds of 
the manor to Robert Derehaugh, and in 1586 Robert Derehaugh acquired 
the remaining third from Richard Farr and Ursula his wife.^ 

'This account is mostly from Suckling. ^Will proved Sept. 1844. 

Hist, of Suff. ii. 387-390. ^Vol. ii. 390. 

^Will proved Aug. 1816, July, 1817, and 'Fine, Trin. I Mary I. 

December, 1834. ^Fine, Easter, 28 Eliz. 



HEVENINGHAM. 



97 



To Robert Derehaugh apparently succeeded James, and he and others 
had licence in 1623 to alienate the manor to Robert Hanrill and FoUiott 
Pruslowe. 

Manor of Blaunchards. 

This manor was held in 13 17 by Richard Blaunchard, and the next 
owner of the lordship we meet with is Robert Blaunchard in 1377. He 
died in 1388, when the manor passed to his son and heir Seman Blaun- 
chard, and from him to John (? Richard) Blaunchard. 

In the reign of the 6th Henry, the manor had passed to Sir John 
Heveningham, for he died seised thereof in 1453, and was succeeded by his 
son. Sir John Heveningham. A few years later it had passed to Richard 
Eckingham, who by his will dated in 1461 left it to his wife Elizabeth, and 
on her death it appears to have reverted to Sir Thomas Heveningham, the 
grandson of the last-mentioned Sir John, who died in 1499, when the 
manor passed to his son and heir, John Heveningham, who died in 1536, 
and it has since passed with the main manor in which it is probably merged. 

A tenement called " Blaunchardes and Thorpes " is mentioned in the 
inquisition p.m. of Edmund de Mortuo Mari, Earl of March, in 1426,' and 
the manor is also specifically mentioned as a manor in the inquisition p.m. 
of Sir John Heveningham in 1453.^ 

The manor of Thorpe Hall in Heveningham is mentioned in a Court Leet 
of Sibton held in 1394, to which lordship it appears to have been attached 
from a period certainly as early as 1227.^ 



' I.P.M., 4 Hen. VI. 15. 
'I.P.M., 3iHen. VI. 7. 
'Fine, 14 Hen. III. 13 de terris et red. 
in Thorpe and Heveningham pro. 

N 



Abb. de Sibton ; 35 Hen. III. 99, de 
terris in Heveningham pro. cod. 
See, too, the Rawlinson MSS. in 
Bodleian. Rawl B. 421. 




gS THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

HOLTON. 

^N the Domesday Survey there are four several holdings 
mentioned, but one small manor. This manor, which 
consisted of 20 acres only, held in Saxon days by Edric, 
but then by Robert Malet in demesne, was valued at 3s. 4^., 
and the King and the Earl had the soc' 

Another estate was a small one of 30 acres and 2 
bordars, valued at 4s., held by Goodrich, a freeman, under 
Roger Bigot, the Domesday tenant in chief. A larger holding was of a 
freeman named Alwin, under the same Roger, namely, of a carucate of land 
over which Edric of Laxfield had commendation. To this estate belonged 
I villein, 3 bordars, and one ploughteam, and there was wood sufficient for 
the support of three hogs. The value was 12s., and the King and the Earl had 
the soc. At the time of the Great Survey this was held by Robert de Curcun 
of Roger Bigot." The remaining land was that held by Goodrich the Steward 
as tenant in chief, consisting of three freemen, named Ulmar, Aylmar, and 
Odulf, who had 33 acres of land and half an acre of meadow, with one 
ploughteam in demesne, all of the value of 5s., and 6 freemen, with 27 acres, 
and one ploughteam, valued at los. The Survey says, " Super totam 
Holetuna habet comes Alanus socam prefer terram Osberti," which does 
not seem consistent with the previous statements, unless we are to assume 
that all the other land referred to in Holton had been Osbert's land, which, 
however, does not seem to have been the case.^ 

Holton or Holton Hall Manor. 

Suckling considers it extremely doubtful if any lordship has existed 
in Holton since the Norman Conquest. Da^'y says as it was a member of 
Wissett it probably had the same lords. One thing is clear, and that is that 
no manor exists here at the present day. Holton Hall Manor is certainly 
mentioned by name in the inquisition p.m. of John Mannock in 1476 and 
William Mannock in 1558, but this is no doubt Holton Hall Manor in Holton 
St. Mary, in Samford Hundred. 

In the reign of William Rufus, Alan, Earl of Richmond, gave the 
church to St. Mary's in York, and he seems to have exercised the lordship 
of the place. We next find the manor vested in Robert de Vaux or de 
Vallibus, who died without issue, and was succeeded by his brother William 
de Vaux, who was dead without issue by 1286, for in that year his brother 
John de Vaux exercised manorial rights in this place. 

One of John's daughters, Petronilla, married Sir William de Nerford, 
Knt., who, in the division of the estates had Therston and Shotestrand in 
Norfolk, " Wysete " in Suffolk, the moiety of a messuage in London called 
Blaunch, Apleton and other lands amounting in all to twenty-five 
knights' fees. The other daughter of John de Vaux, Maud, married Wilham, 
Lord Roos, 2nd Baron of Hamlake. He was one of the competitors for the 
Crown of Scotland in 1291, through his grandmother Isabel, daughter of 
Wilham the Lion King of Scotland. In 1307 he was constituted the King's 
heutenant between Berwick and the River Forth, and 6 years later appointed 
warden of the West Marshes of Scotland. 

There is a charter in the Bodleian by which Bartholomew de Norfolck 
in Chedistane and Joan his wife granted to Sir WiUiam de Nerford, Knt., 

' Dom. ii. 314. ^ Dom. ii. 3556. 

'Dom. ii. 331&, 333&. 



HOLTON. 99 

and Petronilla his wife, i^d., three stalks of ginger, and three cloves annual 
rents in the village of Chedistane. The charter was dated at Wisset the 
Sunday next after the feast of the Nativity, 1298.' Two other charters, one 
preserved in the same collection under which Sir Wilham and his wife take lands 
in Wisset, and the other by which Juliana, wife of John Redhed, of Wyssete, 
quit-claims to William de Nerford and Petronilla his wife all right and claim 
in four acres of land in the village of Wyssete under date the Sunday next 
before the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, 21 Edw. I.' the second by which 
Robert Dilhegg, of Wyssete, grants to the Lady Petronilla de Nerford and her 
heirs a capital messuage in Wyssete with arable lands, woods, fields, &c., 
under date the Wednesday next before the feast of St. Mark the EvangeUst, 
4 Edw. II.' 

There is also a deed relating to Holton in the same collection. It is a 
charter by which Wilham de Stanham remits and quit-claims to the Lady 
Petronilla de Nerford all right and claim in John Folke and Geoffrey le 
Roo, of Holton, his natives, and all that belongs to them. This is dated at 
Wisset the Tuesday next before the feast of Pentecost, 5 Edw. II.* It 
would seem from these deeds that Sir Wilham de Nerford had died before 
1311. Petronilla herself died in 1326, and we then find the manorial rights 
vested in Wilham de Roos, 3rd Baron, son and heir of William Lord Roos 
and John de Nerford, son and heir of Petronilla, which last John died without 
issue in 1329. 

In 1609 the village seems to have been held by Thomas, Earl of Arundel 
and Surry, but we have no evidence of his having exercised manorial 
rights or of the existence of the manor subsequently. 



'Bodl. Suff. Ch. 1177 3Bodl. Suff. Ch. 518. 

"Bodl. Suff. Ch. 1214. ^Bodl. Suff. Ch. 1198. 




100 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

HUNTINGFIELD. 

[DRIC of Laxfield held a manor here in King Edward the 
Confessor's time, consisting of 6 carucates of land. On 
this extensive manor there were i8 villeins, 28 bordars, 
and I serf. There were 4 ploughteams employed in 
demesne, and 12 on the part of the tenants. The wood 
was sufficient for the support of 150 hogs, and in addition 
there were 15 acres of meadow. The stock consisted of 2 
rouncies, 10 cows, 30 hogs, 100 sheep, 60 goats,and 6 hives of bees. 

The value was £8. This value had somewhat decreased by the time 
of the Norman Survey, for it was but £7. The number of villeins had also 
decreased to 12, and the serf had disappeared. Probably about a third 
of the wood had been felled, for there was not more left than to support 
loo hogs. There was a church with 14 acres of glebe valued at 2s. At the 
time of the Domesday Survey this manor was held by Walter, son of Albricus, 
of Robert Malet, the tenant in chief.' 

HUNTINGFIELD MANOR. 

From Walter Albricus the manor probably passed to his son Roger, 
who held the lordship in the reign of Hen. L, and assumed the surname 
of Huntingfield in conformity with the custom of the successful Normans. 
He left a son William de Huntingfield, who in the reign of King Stephen, 
with the consent of Roger, his son and heir, gave the whole of the Isle of 
Medenham or Mendham in Suffolk with other lands to the monks of Castle 
Acre, in Norfolk. 

He died in 1155, and was succeeded by his son Roger de Huntingfield, 
who married Elizabeth de Sentley, and died in 1204, when he was succeeded 
by his son, W^illiam de Huntingfield, who in 1201, being made Constable ot 
Dover Castle, took an oath in the king's presence at Falaise that he would 
faithfully perform his trust in the safe custody thereof, and that it should 
not be given up to any person except to the King himself, or to Hubert de 
Burgh, then Lord Chamberlain ; and for better security deUvered his son 
and daughter as hostages — his son to remain in the hands of the Earl of 
Arundel and his daughter with the Earl Ferrers. 

In 1206 he paid a fine of two hundred marks and two palfreys for the 
wardship of the heir and lands of Osbert Fitz-Hervei, and the next year 
obtained a grant of all the possessions of Roger de Huntingfield, his brother, 
which had been seized by the Crown by reason of the interdict. In the 
following year he was appointed Justice Itinerant at Lincoln, and afterwards 
Sheriff for the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. 

In 1213 he gave the King six fair Norway goshawks for hcence to 
marry Ahce, his daughter, then a widow, and to have an assignation of her 
dowry out of the lands of Richard de Solers, her late husband in Facumb 
and Langley, and also out of his lands in Bondevi,in Lincolnshire. The 
same year he held the office of accountant with Alberic de Vere, Earl of 
Oxford, for the customs of Norfolk and Suffolk. Later he took part with 
the barons who extorted the Great Charters from John, and was one of the 
25 chosen to enforce their observance, for which conduct he came under 
the excommunication of the Pope, and had his lands in Lincolnshire seized 
by the Crown and transferred to Nicholas de Haya during the King's 

'Dom. ii. 311. 



HUNTINGFIELD. loi 

pleasure. He however had his lands restored^ but they were again for- 
feited in the first year of Hen. III., and were given by the King to John 
Mareschall, except those in Lincolnshire, of which Nicholas de Haya had a 
former grant. His lands seem to have been shortly afterwards restored to 
him, and in 1219 he had a Ucence from the Crown to journey to the Holy 
Land. He died in 1220,' and by his wife, Ahce de St. Liz,"" left a son Roger, 
who in 1242 paid a fine of two hundred marks to be exempted from the 
expedition then being prepared for service in Gascony, and in 1253 he had a 
grant of free warren for all his demesne lands. ^ He died in 1256,'* leaving 
Joan his wife, one of the daughters and coheirs of William de Hobrigg 
surviving, and WiUiam, his son and heir, a minor aged 20, for whose ward- 
ship his mother gave a hundred marks to the King. 

In 1265 Wilham de Huntingfield took part with the rebellious barons, 
and was present at the battle of Evesham. We learn from the Hundred 
Rolls that he claimed view of frankpledge and assize of bread and beer in 
Huntingfield.^ He married Emma, daughter of John de Grey by Emma, 
daughter of Jeffrey de Glanville. 

In 1279 he covenanted that Roger his son and heir should marry 
Joyce, the daughter of John de Engaine. William de Huntingfield died 
in 1282, and was succeeded by his son and heir, Roger de Huntingfield, 
who the 8th June, 1294, amongst other eminent persons, had summons 
to attend the King with all speed to advise upon the great affairs of the 
realm, and soon after received command to be at Portsmouth upon the first 
of Sept. then next ensuing well fitted with horse and arms, to sail into 
Gascony. 

On 26th January, 1297, he had summons to Parliament amongst the 
Barons of the Realm, but does not appear to have been afterwards called 
to that assembly. Though not summoned to the Parliament at Lincoln, 
29th Edw. I., he was one of those nobles who had his seal appended to the 
famous letters then written to the Pope, on which occasion he is designated 
Rogerus de Huntingfelde, Dominus de Bradenham. 

He married, according to the covenant of his father, Joyce de Engaine, 
and died seised in 1301 of the Manors of Bekesworth in Cambridgeshire, 
Bradenham in Norfolk, Sculthorp, Toft, and Frampton in Lincolnshire, 
Wokelington in Essex, and Huntingfield in Suffolk, the latter being held of 
the King in chief as of the Honor of Eye, by the service of one knight's 
fee and the fourth part of a fee.® William de Huntingfield, his son and heir, 
was twenty years of age at his father's death, and doing homage in 1303 
had livery of his lands. Wilham de Huntingfield married ist Joan, daughter 
of John de Hastings, Lord of Abergavenny, and 2nd Sybill. He is reckoned 
as the 2nd Baron, but was never summoned to Parliament. William was 
engaged in the Scottish wars in the reign of Edw. I. and Edw. II., and died 
in 1313, when it was returned on inquisition that he held the Manor of 
Huntingfield of the King in chief as of the Honor of Eye, by the service 
of 6 knights' fees and 8s. 4^. for castle ward of the Castle of Eye. He was 
also found to have been seised of the Manor of Mendham in Suffolk, and the 

'Cockayne says 1240. Complete Peerage, ^ Chart. Rolls, 37 Hen. III. 11. 

vol. iv. p. 293 note (G). ■• Cockayne says 1252. I. P.M., 41 Hen. 
*He seems to have had a wife named HI. 29. File 20 (9). 

Isabella de Greville also ; see Manor 'jj.R. ii, 147, 197. Q.W. 725. 

of Mendham Priory in Hoxne ^ I. P.M., 31 Edw. I. 31. 

Hundred. 



102 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

Manor of Bekesworth in Kent, with the advowson of the church there together 
with various other lands in other counties.' 

He left Roger de Huntingfield his son and Sybill his (William's) widow, 
who shortly afterwards married William de Latimer. On the Patent 
Rolls is a commission issued with the object of enquiring touching the 
persons who forcibly entered the park pertaining to Huntingfield Manor, 
which during the minority of Roger, son and heir of William de Hunting- 
field, was in the King's hands.^ The person who committed the trespass 
seems to have been Petronilla de Nerford, for there is a pardon to her for 
offence in this matter on the Patent Rolls later this same year,^ and the 
following year, in 1314, notice appears on the Close Rolls of a trespass 
committed by Sibyll, wife of William de Latimer, late wife of William de 
Huntyngfeld in the Park of Huntingfield.' Sybill could not therefore have 
lost much time in securing a second husband. It appears from the Close 
Rolls of 1315 that Roger the minor was but 8 years of age when his father 
died, and this year there is an order to the Escheator not to meddle with 
Huntingfield Manor. ^ 

In 1316 the King committed the custody of the manor to Hugh de 
Despenser during the minority of Roger.* The custody was varied from 
time to time, for in 1319 Walter de Norwich, a Baron of the Exchequer, 
owed £18 for the farm of the custody of the third part of the manor late 
belonging to William de Huntingfield, which " Sibella " his widow held in 
dower, after whose death it was in the King's hands by the minority of 
Roger, his son and heir. 

Roger came of age in 1326, and there is an order on the Close Rolls in 
the ist year of Edw. III. to discharge Walter de Norwich of the farm of a 
third of the manor, from the time the King took homage of Roger for his 
father's lands, the late King having commuted the same, and the third of 
the said manor, which Sibyl, late wife of William, held in dower, and which 
on her death (probably in 1319) was taken into the King's hands.'' 

Roger de Huntingfield married Cecily, daughter of Sir Walter de 
Norwich, Knt., of Mettingham Castle, and dying in 1337^ 1^^^ his widow 
and a son, William de Huntingfield, then aged seven and a half years, 
him surviving. He died seised of the Manors of Huntingdon, Benges and 
Horham in Suffolk, besides other estates. William made proof of his age 
in 1351, and on doing fealty had hvery of his lands. He was summoned to 
Parliament from 15th Nov. 1351 to 20 Jan. 1375-6, and served in the French 
wars in 1359 ^^^ ^S^o, being in the retinue of Henry, Duke of Lancaster. 

Amongst the Harleian Charters in the British Museum is a letter dated 
I2th Dec. 37 Edw. [1363], of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, to his 
stewards, bailiffs, &c., certifying to the homage of this WiUiam of Hunting- 
field, for lands held of the Duke.^ 

William married Elizabeth de Willoughby, and died in Nov. 1376, with- 
out issue, leaving his aunt, Alice, daughter of William, his grandfather, and 
widow of Sir John Norwich, Knt., his heir, but according to another 
inquisition, the said Ahce and Sir John Copledike, grandson of Joan, 
daughter of the said William, his grandfather, by SybiUa, his 2nd wife, his 
heirs. 

'I.P.M., 7 Edw. II. 47. ^Originalia Rolls, 9 Edw. II. 10. 

"Pat. Rolls, 7 Edw. II. pt. i. ^d. ^Close Rolls, i Edw. III. pt. i. 6, 5. 

3 Pat. Rolls, 7 Edw. II. pt. ii. 18. ^I.P.M., 11 Edw. III. 47 

•'Close Rolls, 8 Edw. II. 34. sHarl. Ch. 43 F. 14. 
^Close Rolls, 8 Edw. II. 11, 5, 8 Edw. II. 
30 ; Oiiginalia Rolls, 8 Edw. II. 15. 



HUNTINGFIELD. 103 

Morant, in his History of Essex' asserts that William de Huntingfield 
left two daughters and coheirs, viz., AUce, wife of Sir John Norwich, and 
Mariona, who married ist John de Huntingfield, and 2ndly Stephen de 
Scrope. Banks, in his Baronia Anglica Concentrata,^ considering these 
contradictory statements inclines to favour the view of Morant, with the 
exception only that it was William, summoned to Parliament from the 25th 
to 34th Edw. HI., who left these daughters and not WiUiam, whose name 
appears from the 44th to the 49th Edw. HI., and who is rather indicated 
from the inspection of the succession of the writs of summons to have been 
son and heir of John de Huntingfield by Mariona before mentioned, for 
thus Dugdale recites the several writs,^ viz., William de Huntingfield from 
25 to 34 Edw. HI., John de Huntingfield from 36 to 43 Edw. HI., William 
de Huntingfield from 44 to 49 Edw. IH. The John de Huntingfield who 
was summoned from 36 to 43 Edw. HI., was not a member of the family 
connected with this manor. He was a member of a Kent family connected 
with Huntingfield in that county, being the son of Walter, son of Peter, 
Sheriff of Kent in 1283, who was the son of Walter de Huntingfield in the 
time of Hen. III.* 

It appears that two years before his death William, Lord Huntingfield, 
practically made a settlement of the manor and other estates, for by a fine 
levied in 1374 between William de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk, querent, and the 
feoffees of William, Lord Huntingfield, defendants, the manor was limited 
after the decease of William, Lord Huntingfield, to the Earl for life, with 
remainder to Thomas, William, and Edmund, sons of the said Earl, all of 
whom died without issue. 

In consequence of this settlement the heirs of William de Huntingfield, 
whoever they were, did not inherit. 

In 1377 we find on the Patent Rolls a licence for William de Ufford, 
2nd Earl of Suffolk, to enfeoff Robert de Swylington, Knt., Nicholas 
Gemon, Knt., and others of the manor then stated to be held in chief, which 
William de Huntingfield held of the said Earl as of his Honor of Eye before 
he (the said Earl) was seised thereof, which Honor the late King (Edw. III.) 
granted in tail male to Robert de Ufford, late Earl of Suffolk, father of the 
then Earl.^ 

The manor is included in the inquisition p.m. of W^illiam de Ufford, 
Earl of Suffolk, and Joane his wile, who was daughter of Edward de Monta- 
cute, and granddaughter maternally of Thomas de Brotherton, Earl of 
Norfolk, in 1382.^ 

On the death of WiUiam de Ufford, the manor passed to his 2nd wife, 
Isabel, daughter of Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and widow 
of Johnle Strange, of Blackmere, for fife, and subject to her interest the manor, 
according to Suckling, vested in the three sisters of William de Ufford, 
Earl of Suffolk, but we fail to see on what grounds, as William de Ufford 
was not a purchaser. 

It seems more probable the manor passed to the Crown as an escheat 
for want of male heirs, and was granted to Michael de la Pole, Earl of 
Suffolk, who died in 1389, for Michael's father, William de la Pole, married 
Catherine, daughter of Sir John Norwich, by the Alice who was heir of 
William, Lord Huntingdon. 

' Vol. ii. 136. ■* See, too, a note in Cockayne's '' Complete 

^ Page 265. Peerage," vol iv. p. 294. 

^ Lists of Summons, ^Pat. Rolls, i Rich. II. pt. vi. 14. 

n.P.M., 5 Rich. II. 57. 



104 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

It is clear too that in 1384 Michael de la Pole had Hcence from the 
Crown to castellate his manor houses at Wingfield, Sternfield, and Hunting- 
field.' In 1386 a fine was levied of the manor and advowson by Isabel, 
Countess of Suffolk, against Sir Robert de Swyllyngton, Sir Roger — ,John 
Ryshale, clerk, and Robert de Asshefeld." Michael de la Pole was at the 
time of his decease, which occurred at Paris, an outlaw, having been sen- 
tenced by the Commons to death and forfeiture ; and immediately on his 
death we find on the Patent Rolls a grant from the Crown, with the assent 
of the Council, to John, Bishop of Salisbury and others, in fee of the rever- 
sion of the Manor of Huntingfield, with the advowson of the Priory of 
Mendham and the Churches of Huntingfield and Cookley after the death of 
Isabel, Countess of Suffolk, which reversion it is stated had belonged to 
Michael de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, deceased, and forfeited by him.^ The 
value however, of the grant was not great, as eight years later, in 1397, 
the deceased Earl of Suffolk's son. Sir Michael de la Pole, obtained an annul- 
ment of the judgment against his father, and upon the accession of Hen. IV. 
was fully restored in estate and honours. He died at the siege of Harfleur 
14th Sept. 1415, and by his wife Catherine de Stafford, daughter of Hugh 
Earl of Stafford, left issue a son, Michael, who succeeded his father as 3rd 
Earl of Suffolk. 

The 3rd Earl was killed in the great battle of Agincourt, 25th Oct. 
1415, and leaving only three daughters was succeeded by his brother, 
William de la Pole, 4th Earl of Suffolk, who had livery of his lands in 1418. 
He served in the wars in France for 24 years, 17 of which were in uninter- 
rupted succession, without once visiting his native country. He was im- 
peached by the Commons and committed prisoner to the Tower. His fate 
after embarking at Ipswich is well known. "* The estates which the father 
forfeited were restored to his son, John de la Pole, who, having espoused the 
Lady EHzabeth Plantagenet, sister of King Edward IV. and King Rich. III., 
was created Duke of Suffolk by letters patent 23rd March, 1463. On his 
death in 1491 he was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, Edmund de la 
Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, upon whose attainder and execution, 4th May, 
1513^ the manor, with his other estates, was forfeited to the Crown. The 
year following, however, Sir Robert Drury, Knt., Sir John Heydon, Knt., 
and Edmund Gelget petitioned the King on behalf of Margaret de la Pole, 
Countess of Suffolk, widow of the late Duke, setting forth that she had a life 
interest in the Manor of Huntingfield, with nine other lordships in Suffolk, 
and divers manors in Norfolk as her jointure, and on the hearing the whole 
were assigned to her, but devolved to the Crown at her death, which occurred 
about 1516. Her will bears date 1515. 

There is amongst the State Papers in 1509 notice of a grant of the 
reversion of the manor with the advowson to Sir John Heydon, Thomas 
Wyndham, Edward Gernegan, and Humphrey Everton.^ 

Suckhng, quoting from the Jermyn and Davy MSS., says, " On the ist 
of Oct. in the 29th of Hen. VIII. [1537] indentures were made to Nicholas 
Smith' of Huntingfield Hall, which by letters patent bearing date March 

'Pat. Rolls, 8 Rich. II. 16. "^ There is a monument in Huntingfield 

^ Feet of Fines, 10 Rich. II. 2. Church to the memory of Ann 

3 Pat. Rolls, 13 Rich. II. pt. ii. 30. Moulton, whose ist husband was 

" I.P.M., 28 Hen. VI. 25. Nicholas Harry Smith, of Hunting- 

= I.P.M., 5 Hen. VIII. i. " field Hall. He died 20th June, 1595. 

*S.P. I Hen. VIII. 485, see S.P. 5 Hen. Ann Moulton was the mother of 

VIII. 4254. Bridget, wife of Sir Edward Coke, 

the Lord Chief Justice. 



HUNTINGFIELD. 



105 



20th, 1559, was conveyed with the manor to Sir Henry Carey by Queen 
EUzabeth." 

This is most vague. What was the nature of the arrangement with 
Nicholas Smith ? What were the terms of the indentures to him ? As a 
matter of fact in the 30th of Hen. VHI. [1538] the manor was vested in 
Charles Brandon^ Duke of Suffolk^ obviously by a previous grant, for this 
year the State Papers show clearly that the Duke made a grant to the Crown 
of the manor in exchange for other property' ; and further in 1540 the 
manor, with various other manors in Suffolk, was granted out of the 
Augmentation Office to Lady Anne of Cleves for Ufe.^ 

It seems somewhat strange that Mr. Suckling should not have noticed 
either the exchange or this grant. He, however, gives the subsequent 
dealings with the manor very accurately as foUows : — 

By letters patent bearing date 20th March, 1559, the manor was 
conveyed to Sir Henry Carey by Queen EUzabeth, to be held by him and 
the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten. This knight, who was son 
and heir of William Carey, by Mary Boleyn, sister to Queen Anne Boleyn, 
and consequently cousin to Queen Elizabeth, was created by that Queen 
Baron Hunsdon, of Hunsdon, in the county of Herts, January 13th, 1559. 

Huntingfield Hall while in the possession of this nobleman, was 
honoured with a visit from the Queen, who is stated to have enjoyed the 
pleasures of the chase, and to have shot a buck with her own hand from a 
venerable tree in the park, still known as " Queen Elizabeth's oak." Lord 
Hunsdon died in 1596, and by an inquisition taken at Deptford Strand, on 
the 8th October, in the thirty-eighth of Elizabeth's reign, was found to have 
been seised at the day of his death, inter alia, in Hertfordshire, Kent, York, 
and Essex, of the Manor of Huntingfield, worth £22 per annum. 

He was succeeded by George Carey, his eldest son, who died in the 
year 1603, leaving by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Sir John Spencer, 
of Althorp, an only daughter and heir, Elizabeth, who married Sir Thomas 
Berkeley, Knt., and died in 1635. Their daughter, Theophila, who inherited 
the Manor of Huntingfield, &c., married Sir Robert Coke, second son and 
heir of Sir Edward Coke, Knt., who in right of his wife was lord of Hunting- 
field, and died without issue in 1653.^ On his decease, John Coke of Holk- 
ham, in Norfolk, fourth son of Sir Edward, succeeded to this estate, by the 
wiU of his brother. 

John Coke died in 1661, when the manor passed to his son and heir, 
Edward Coke, who died without issue, when it passed to Robert Coke, son 
and heir of Richard Coke, of Thorington. He died in 1678, and was suc- 
ceeded by his son, Edward Coke, who died in 1707, when the manor passed 
to his son Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester, who about the year 1752 sold 
it to Sir Joshua Vanneck, Bart., from which time it has descended in the 
same course as the Manor of Heveningham, and is now vested in Joshua 
Charles Vanneck, 4th Baron Huntingfield, of Heveningham Hall. 



'S.P. 1538 ii. Ii82(i8a). 

'S.P. 1540 p. 1500. 

^The family of Coke had large estates in 
Huntingfield before their acquisition 
of the manor. In 1582 Sir Edward 
Coke, Lord Chief Justice, then 
Edward Coke, Esq., married Bridget, 
daughter and heiress of John Paston, 
Esq., of Huntingfield, with whom he 

O 



acquired a fortune of £30,000. In 
the summer of 1592, the plague 
making its appearance in London, 
Coke was compelled to leave town 
abruptly, and retired to his house 
at Huntingfield. Sir Robert Coke 
died in the year of his sheriffalty. 
Suckling ii. 412, note. 



io6 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

The Rev. Charles Davy, formerly of Onehouse, in a letter quoted by 
Suckling, thus described the old mansion house where EHzabeth is said to 
have been entertained by Lord Hunsdon. " The approach to it was by a 
bridge over an arm of the river Blythe, and if I remember right through 
three square courts. A gallery was continued the whole length of the build- 
ing, which, opening upon a balcony over the porch, gave an air of grandeur 
with some variety to the front. The great hall was built round six straight 
massy oaks, which originally supported the roof as they grew ; upon these, 
the foresters and yeomen of the guard used to hang their nets, cross-bows, 
hunting poles, great saddles, cahvers, bills, &c. The roots of them had been 
long decayed when I visited this romantic building, and the shafts sawn 
off at the bottom were supported either by irregular logs of wood, driven 
under them, or by masonry. Part of the long gallery, where the Queen and 
her fair attendants used to divert themselves, was converted into an immense 
cheese chamber, and upon my first looking into it in the dusk of a summer's 
evening, when a number of these huge circular things were scattered upon 
the floor, it struck me that the Maids of honour had just slipped off their 
farthingales to prepare for a general romping. 

"Elizabeth is reported to have been much pleased with the retirement 
of this park, which was filled with tall and massy timbers, and to have 
been particularly amused and entertained with the solemnity of its walks 
and bowers ; but this oak, from which the tradition is that she shot a buck 
with her own hand, was her favourite tree. It is still in some degree of vigour, 
though most of its boughs are broken off, and those which remain are 
approaching to a total decay, as well as its vast trunk ; the principal arm, 
now bald with dry antiquity, shoots up to a great height above the leafage, 
and being hollow and truncated at top, with several cracks resembling loop- 
holes, through which the light shines into its cavity, it gives us an idea of 
the winding staircase in a lofty Gothic turret, wliich, detached from the 
other ruins of some venerable pile, hangs tottering to its fall, and affects 
the mind of a beholder after the same manner by its greatness and sub- 
limity. 

" No traces of the old Hall, as it was called, are now remaining. Having 
fallen into an irreparable state of decay, it was taken down a few years 
since, by the late Sir Joshua Vanneck, Baronet. I have so much of the 
antiquary in me as to wish that some memorial of its simple grandeur 
could have been preserved.'" 

Arms of Huntingfield : Or, on a fesse Gules, three plates. 

Manor of Newhawe or Newhall. 

All we can gather of this manor — a manor which is not mentioned by 
Suckling — is that in 1428 it was vested in Alice de la Uiore and in 1558 
passed to Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon by grant from the Crown. 

The Rectory Manor. 

Of this manor the Davy MSS. say: " At the period of the Domesday 
Book Robert Malet held the Manor of Huntingfield, to which was appendant 
a Church possessing 14 acres. This probably was the origin of the Rectory 
Manor, which still exists." 

' Suckling, Hist, of Suff. ii. 413. 



HUNTINGFIELD. 



107 



The lords of this manor would 
131 1 have been as follows : — 

Richard Lenebfand 131 1 

Petus.fil. John de Belagh. . 1328 

John de Attelburgh 1337 

John de Foxton 1337 

Thomas de Colyngham .... 1349 

Robert Gardener de Cheston 1361 
John fil. Willi. Couper de 

Lynsted 1365 

Thomas de Hoxne 1371 

William Aired 1396 

John Hawtayn 1447 

Thomas Peresson 1462 

Robertus Barker 1487 

William Wrighte 15 10 

William Leake 1512 

Christopher Linham 



necessarily be the Rectors, who from 

Richard Undrewood 1566 

George Booth 1571 

Edmund Stubbe 1621 

Nathaniel Ducket 

Jos. Jones '■ri666 

Mat. Smalwood 1675 

Peter Ducket 1695 

Nicholas Cremer 1709 

John Wells 1731 

John Wells 1745 

Francis Jones 1758 

Gaspar Joel Moned 1764 

Henry Uhthoff 1782 

William Holland 1848-92 

Richard Spencer Turner . . 




io8 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

KNODDISHALL OR KNOTTISHALL. 

|HERE was no manor here in Saxon times, and only two 
holdings are mentioned in the Domesday Survey under 
Blything Hundred ; one was that of Ranulf fitz Walter, 
holding of Roger Bigot 80 acres of land, 2 bordars, and i 
villein, having among them 2 ploughteams. Robert Malet 
had the soc and the place was regarded as a hamlet of 
Saxmundham. The other holding was of a freeman named 

Booting with 30 acres. He was King Edward the Confessor's man. There 

was I ploughteam, and the estate was valued at 8s. 

Robert Malet had also the soc of this holding, and Wm. Malet was 
seised of it at the day of his death.' 

Knottishall Manor. 

The family of Jenney held the lordship from a very early date. They 
came originally from France, and are supposed to have assumed this sur- 
name from the town of Guisnes, near Calais, and not unhkely came over with 
the Conqueror. Shortly after the Conquest, we find them under the name 
of De Gisneto, or De Gisne or Gyney, owning the Manor of Haverland, in 
Norfolk, and this lordship they retained possession of until the time of 
Hen. V. A branch of the family changed the name from Gyney to Jenney, 
and in the time of Richard H. we meet with a Thomas, son of Sir Thomas 
Gyney, Knt., enfeoffed of his Manor of Gislingham, called " Gney," which 
had been recently purchased of John de Weyland. This manor is still 
called by the name of " Jenneys." 

Edmund Jenney held Knottishall Manor, and on his death was suc- 
ceeded by his son and heir, William Jenney, of Knoddishall and Theberton, 
who left by his wife Maud a son and heir, John Jenney. 

The record is still preserved of an inquiry respecting the enclosure of, 
and an authority to this John Jenny to enclose a certain way leading from the 
church to Knodeshalcheth in Knottishall near his house in the same place, 
for the enlargement thereof.^ 

John Jenney, who was a burgess of Norwich in 1452, married Maud, 
daughter and heir of John Bokill or Bokele, of Friston, by Jane, daughter 
and heir of JohnLayston by Maud, daughter and heir of Wm. Gerrard, and 
died the 4th Dec. 1460, and there is a sepulchral brass to him and his wife 
in the Church of Knottishall.^ He left issue Sir William Jenney, Knt., of 
Knottishall, one of the judges of the King's Bench in 1477, a younger son 
John, who was Rector of Ufford, and two daughters, Anne and Margaret. 

Amongst the Early Chancery Proceedings is an action by John Jenney 
deed, {sic) against William Jenney, as to a messuage, land, &c., in Knottes- 
hall, Leiston, and Theberton.* 

Sir WiUiam Jenney married ist Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Cause, 
and by her had issue four sons and as many daughters, namely. Sir Edmund 
Jenney, Knt., his successor ; Hugh, living in 1473 ; Nicholas 0/ Herringfleet; 
and Richard of the same parish. Of the daughters, Margaret married 
Christopher, Lord Willoughby de Eresby ; Eleanor married ist Sir Robert 
Brewse, Knt., and 2ndly Sir Robert Fienes, Knt., brother of Richard 

'Dom. ii. 3336, 334. 3 Add. MSS. Brit. Mus. 32483, ^2400. 

'I.Q.D. 19-23 Hen. VI. 67. I.P.M., ^E.C.P. 5 Edw. IV. ; 49 Hen. VI. 33, ZQ"?. 

t. Hen. VI. B. 16. ^^ ^^ 



KNODDISHALL. 109 

Fienes, Lord Dacre ; Thomasine became a nun, and Catherine married 
John Berney, of Gunton, in Norfolk. The Judge married 2ndly Eleanor, 
widow of Robert Ingleys, daughter of John Sampson, but by her had no 
issue. He died 23rd Dec. 1483, and was buried in the parish church of 
Theberton by his first wife's side. 

Sir Edmund Jenney, Knt., married about 1467 Catherine, daughter 
and heir of Robert Bois,' by Jane his wife, daughter and heir of Edward 
Wychingham, and died 26th Aug. 1522, leaving the manor to his grandson 
Francis, a minor born in 1510, the son of William Jenney, who had died 
28th Feb. 1518-9, in his father's lifetime.^ 

William Jenney had married twice : ist Audrey, daughter of Sir Robert 
Clere, of Ormsby, co. Norfolk, and 2ndly Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas 
Britton, Alderman of London. 

Sir Edmund Jenney was found to have died seised not only of this 
manor, but also of the Manors of Theberton, Brahams, Lowdham, and 
Austins in Middleton. Francis Jenney married twice, ist Margaret, 
daughter of Sir Robert Peyton, Knt., of Iseham, and 2ndly Mary, daughter 
of Robert Brograve, of Beckenham, in Kent. He died in 1590, aged 80 
years, and was succeeded by his son and heir, Arthur, who was born in 1533, 
and had a fine of this manor and the Manor of Buxlow levied against him 
in 1587 by Henry Sidnor and others.^ Arthur married Elye, daughter of 
George Jernigan, of Somerleyton. He died in 1604, and was buried at 
Theberton, 19th March, that year, leaving a grandson, Sir Arthur Jenney, 
Knt., the son of Francis (who had predeceased his father) by Anne his wife, 
daughter and coheir of George Rede, of Thorington. 

Sir Arthur Jenney was Sheriff of Suffolk in 1645, and of Norfolk in 
1634. He married four times and had issue by each wife. 

His 1st wife, whom he married in 1616, was Anne, daughter of Sir 
Robert Barker, and by her he had, with other issue. Sir Robert and George, 
and several daughters. Sir Arthur married 2ndly Catherine, daughter 
of Sir John Porter, and by her had a son, Thomas, of Campsey Ash, who died 
without issue in 1675. 

Sir Arthur married 3rdly Helen, widow of John Freeman and daughter 
of Francis Stanard, of Knowleshill, in Essex, by whom he had two daughters, 
Susan and Isabella. The 4th wife was Mary, daughter of Thomas Hall of 
Godalming, in Surrey, and the issue a son Edmund, born 17th April, 1664. 
Sir Arthur Jenney died 24th March, 1667-8, aged 75, and was buried 
at Knodishall. His eldest son, Sir Robert Jenney, Knt., had in 1640, 
married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Offiey, Knt., of Madeley, co. 
Stafford, and had issue Offiey, his successor, Edmund of Campsey Ash, 
who married in 1683 Dorothy, daughter and coheir of Robert Marryott, of 
Bredfield, and dying 17th Feb. 1644-5, left issue, Arthur, of Woodburde, 
who married in 171 1 Mirabella, daughter of Henry Edgar, of Eye, and widow 
of Robert Burley, of Wisbech, and dying in 1729 left, amongst other issue, 
Edmund Jenney, of Bredfield. 

Sir Robert Jenney died in 1660 in his father's Ufetime, leaving his 
eldest son, Offiey Jenney, to whom the manor passed on the death of his 
grandfather. Offiey Jenney in 1666 married Alethea, eldest daughter of 

'Robert Bois was son and heir of Roger wife, daughter and heir of John 

Bois and of Sybilla his wife, daughter Plumstead. 

and heir of Robert lUeigh, son and ^I.P.M., 8th June, 15 Hen. VIII. 53, 1533. 

heir of Edm. lUeigh and AHce hi? ^Fine, Easter, 29 Eliz. 



no 



ITHE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 



Sir Edmund Duke of Benhall, and left at his decease an only surviving 
child, Robert Jenney^of Leiston, baptised 3rd Dec. 1677, married to Deborah, 
daughter of John Braham/ of Campsey Ash, and had an only son, Offley 
Jenney, who died 6th September, 1735, in the hfetime of his father, 
unmarried, and a daughter Deborah, who died an infant. Robert Jenney 
survived until 1741, and was buried at Knottishall 28th Feb. that j'^ear, 
leaving the manor to his cousin Edmund Jenney, of Bredfield, married in 
1765 to Anne, daughter of Philip Broke, of Nacton. He sold the manor to 
Edward Vernon, who died in 1757, and was succeeded by Henry Vernon, 
of Thurlow, who, dying in 1776 the manor passed to his son and heir, John 
Vernon, of Orwell Park, who died in 1818. 

His son sold the manor about 1825 to John Ayton. About 1842 the 
manor was acquired by Thomas May hew, from whom it passed to Mrs. J. 
Mayhew, who held in 1896, and the same is now vested in Frederick George 
Mayhew, of The Elms, Saxmundham. Mr. White, in his Suffolk Gazeteer 
for 1855, states that the manor then belonged to the Rev. G. A. Wilkinson, 
and in his edition of 1885 to Lord Huntingfield. 

Neither of these statements however appears to be correct. 

Knoddishall, the ancient residence of the Jenney family, was burnt 
down about i860, but has been rebuilt, and is now a farmhouse in the 
occupation of John Eggar Cooper. 

Arms of Jenney : Ermine, a bend Gules, cotised, Or. As to the family 
see E.A. Notes and Queries (N.S.) iv. 224, 240. 



'The Brahams were an old Knottishall 
family, for we find amongst the 
Bodleian Charters one executed 
between 1230 and 1240 by which 
Theobald de Leeston, son of William 
de Leeston, granted to Julian de 
Braham and Katherine his wife 
certain lands in Knottishall and 
Leiston (Bodl. Suff. Ch. 1179). 
There is another deed executed 
about 1280 by which Richard, son 
of Julian de Braham, of Knottishall, 
granted to Robert Reynal and 
Alditha his wife, of Leiston, a piece 
of land in Knottishall (Bodl. Suff. 



Ch. 1182). There is also another 
deed in the same collection whereby 
Richard de Braham granted to 
Roger de Braham certain land in 
Knottishall. The date is Palm 
Sunday 18 Edw. I. (Bodl. Suff. Ch. 
1181). There is yet another deed 
by which Roger Creeke, of Knot- 
tishall, granted to John de Braham 
and John his son a piece of land 
in the same place. This is dated 
the Sunday on the Feast of St. 
Gregory, 11 Edw. IL (Bodl. Suff. 
Ch. 1188). 




LEISTON. Ill 

LEISTON. 

I HIS was an important place in Saxon times, and it was 
ruled by the great landowner Edric of Laxfield in the time 
of the Confessor. The extent of the manor was twelve 
carucates, or about 5,000 acres, while it contained wood 
sufficient for the support of 500 hogs, though as a matter 
of fact only 73 of these animals were kept under the care 
of a swineherd. There was a mill on the manor, and 5 
acres of meadow, an exceedingly small proportion for so extensive a domain. 
There were also 4 rouncies, 5 cows, 112 sheep, and 7 hives of bees. Three 
churches stood in the village endowed jointly with 100 acres of free land, 
valued altogether at £16, in the Confessor's time, but raised to £28 later. 

A considerable portion of the wood appears to have been felled by the 
time of the Domesday Survey, for this states that the wood then standing 
was sufficient for the support of 200 hogs only. The number of men belong- 
ing to the manor had not much varied in the interval between Saxon times 
and the Survey, for there were always 25 villeins and 27 bordars, but 3 serfs 
at the earlier period had increased at the later period to 7. 

In demesne there were formerly 11 ploughteams, but these were 
reduced to 7, and the 6 ploughteams of the tenants at the earlier period 
had come down to 3J. The extent of this manor was three leagues and 
two leagues and one quarentene broad, and it paid in a gelt 3s. i^d. 

We find also in the village a smaller manor, consisting of 40 acres of land 
only, and valued at 6s., held by a freeman. To this manor were attached 
47 freemen, with 7 carucates of land having formerly 8 ploughteams, but 
later 6|- only, always of the value of ^^. And also a third manor, the property 
of Edric, estimated at 20s., consisting of 140 acres, with 4 bordars, and 2 
villeins, and having 2 ploughteams in demesne and half a ploughteam 
belonging to the tenants. At the time of the Domesday Survey this manor 
was held by Gilbert of Robert Malet, and the bordars seem to have dis- 
appeared, and been replaced by i rouncy and 2 cows. There was another 
estate, that of Fulchred of Robert Malet — which consisted of 8 freemen 
with a carucate and a half of land and an acre of meadow, valued at 30s. 

In Saxon times this holding had had 3 ploughteams in demesne, but 
at the time of the Survey there were two only.' 

Manor of Leiston. 

The estate of Edric and later of Robert Malet was forfeited by the 
descendant of the latter and passed to the Crown, where it remained until 
Hen. II. granted it to the celebrated Justiciary, Ranulph de Glanville, 
by charter.^ 

In 1 171 Ranulph de Glanville founded the Priory of Butley, which 
he endowed with large possessions, among which were the advowsons of 
Aldringham and Leiston. This priory was founded for canons of the Order 
of Saint Augustine. But in 1182 Glanville having determined to form 
another religious establishment at Leiston, ^ he there founded a small house 
for monks of the Premonstatensian Order, and gave them the Manor of 

'Dom. ii. 311, 311&, 314. ^H.R. ii. 147, 197; Origin. 6 Edw. II. 15. 

^Ex Registro Prioratus de Leiston in Chart. Rolls, 6 Edw. II. 51. 

Bibl. Cott. fol. 336. 9 Edw. II. 47 ; Pat. Rolls, 12 

Rich. II. pt. ii. 19. Ih. 14 Pat. Rolls. 



112 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

Leiston and certain advowsons which he had before given to the canons of 
the Priory of Butley, and which they consented to rehnquish. Glanville 
makes the endowment for the health of the soul of King Hen. II., for that 
of his own soul, and the soul of Bertha his wife, daughter of Theobald de 
Valoins, and for the souls of all his ancestors and successors. 

Leiston Abbey flourished about i8o years, and having received con- 
siderable donations and bequests from the rich and pious in the neighbour- 
hood, the house was found to be too limited for the means, as well as for 
the number, of its residents ; it was therefore deemed necessary that a new 
abbey should be erected. Accordingly in the year 1363 Robert de Ufford, 
Earl of Suffolk, then patron of the house, laid the foundation of a more 
extensive monastery, and as the former site, from its situation in the 
marshes contiguous to the sea, had been found not only inconvenient but 
unhealthy, the new building was erected upon a spot at a distance of about 
a mile from the old abbey and on a soil more adapted for the purpose. 
This was on the site of the present ruins, but the house built by Robert de 
Ufford was unfortunately consumed by fire before the year 1389. Upon 
the same spot, however, was erected the abbey, the ruins of which still 
remain. 

Although a new house was erected the old one was not abandoned, one 
or two monks continuing to reside there until the general dissolution of the 
monasteries. Among the wills of natives of the county, we meet with 
legacies to our lady of the old abbey so late as the years 151 1 and 1516 ; 
and in a chronicle of the Abbey of Butley under the year 1531 there is a 
memorandum, stating that John Green, the abbot, having voluntarily 
resigned his office, was consecrated an anchorite in the Chapel of Saint Mary 
in the old monastery of Leiston near the sea. 

The manors, churches, and other property with which the abbey was 
endowed by the founder, were by Rich. I. confirmed to the canons with a 
grant of various franchises, which were further ratified by Richard, Archbishop 
of Canterbury, and by Roger Bigot, Earl of Norfolk. 

The manor remained with the abbey until the dissolution of the 
religious houses, when it reverted to the Crown in 1536, and in the following 
year, 7th April, 1537, was granted to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, 
with all its messuages, lands, and tenements in Leiston, Theberton, Dar- 
sham, Middleton, Thorp, Eriswell, Kelsale, Knottishall, Culpho, Pettaugh, 
and Laxfield, &c., together with the rectories of Leiston and Middleton, &c., 
to be held of the Crown by the service of one knight's fee.' The Duke did 
not long retain the manor, for in 1538 he exchanged it with the King for 
Henham Hall.^ 

The manor remained in the Crown until June, 1557, when it was granted 
by letters patent in consideration of £571. 5s. ^d. to Robert Browne, one 
of the Barons of the Exchequer, and Jane his wife.^ The description in the 
deed is, "the scyte of the manor of the late monastery and abbey of Leiston, 
and all the buildings, &c., one close called Elmeham Close, Sheepe cloose, 
Pond close, Bushey close. Horse close, Covent-garden, Hogg close, Apple- 
croft, Park close, one close lying on the west side of the way leading from 
the said monastery to East Bridge, Chucham meadow, the long meadow, 
one tenement with the appurtenances, lying in the Leym Leiston, which 
John Kytchen and Muffet then late had ; a wood adj oining to the Horse close, 

'See S.P. 1537, vol. i. p. 1103 (11). ^jjarl. 606; Orig. 3 and 4 Ph. and Mary; 

= 30 Hen. VIII. S.P. vol, ii. 1182 (i8a). 3 Pars.'_Rot. 12. 



LEISTON. 113 

one other wood called Childerwood, all which premises lye in the parish 
of Leiston and Theberton, in the said county, and then or late in the occupa- 
tion of the said Robert Browne, and late belonging to the said monastery, 
and after, parcel of the possessions of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, 
and which came to King Henry the eighth by exchange with the said Duke, 
and were then in the hands of Queen Mary by descent except the bells and 
the advowson of the premises habendum to the said Robert Browne and 
Joane his wife." 

Robert Browne died 21st Dec. i EUz. [1558], and by an inquisi- 
tion p m. taken at Beccles 23rd April, 1559, he was found to have died seised 
of the lordship held of the Crown in chief, and valued at £30 ; also of the 
site of the monastery and 355 acres i rood 4 perches of land adjacent, 
valued at £21. 3s. 2d. per annum. Jane his widow remarried George Skott, 
and died 2nd May, 1568, when the manor passed to her son and heir, John 
Browne. On the ist Dec. 1601 he obtained a licence from the Crown to 
aUenate in favour of his son John Browne the younger, but to the use of 
himself (John Browne the elder) for life. 

John Browne the father died in 1602, and his son, John Browne the 
younger, by his will dated 3rd Nov. 1602, charged several legacies on and 
directed them to be paid out of Leiston Abbey, and after the decease of John 
Browne and Anne Jeringham, his mother, devised all his lands and manors 
to his brother, Armiger Browne, for life, remainder to Philip, eldest son of 
the said Armiger and the heirs male of his body, with remainder to John 
Browne, the second son of the said Armiger, with remainder to Armiger 
Browne, third son of the said Armiger, with a like remainder to Robert 
Browne, brother of testator, with like remainder to his sister Fulter, with 
remainder to the said Robert Browne and his heirs for ever. 

On the ist April, 1611, Robert Browne, by deed-poll sold and released 
to Armiger Browne all his right and interest in the manor, and loth Nov. 
i6ig, the King gave licence to the said Armiger Browne and Philip his eldest 
son to alienate Leiston Abbey and all these lands, and hereditaments to Henry 
Grey the elder and Henry Grey, his nephew, in fee for £2,000. The estate 
sold consisted of 290 acres, and the deed of conveyance was enrolled in 
Chancery the 22nd Nov. the same year. 

In 1627 Henry Grey the elder and Henry Grey, the nephew, sold the 
property, with the mansion house and capital messuage called Leiston Abbey, 
for £2,100 to Richard Miller and Alice his wife. The property then consisted 
of a messuage, one garden, 150 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 80 acres 
of pasture, 30 acres of wood, and 10 acres of furze, with the appurtenances 
in Leiston and Theberton. In 1633 there was an action by Richard Miller 
and others against John Claxton as to timber cut down in copyholds by 
the lord of the manor, and as to the customs of the manor.' 

Suckling, citing from the Jermyn and Davy MSS., says : " Notwith- 
standing these dispositions of the above-mentioned premises, it appears 
that King James I. on the 5th of August, in the seventeenth year of his 
reign, had granted to George, Marquis and Earl of Buckingham, ' all that 
the monastery and manor of Leiston, in the county of Suffolk, with the 
rights, members, and appurtenances, and all the rents of assize of the free 
and customary tenants of Thorpe, Aldringham, and Sizewell in the said 
county, and all demesne lands in Leiston Hall, &c., with the issues and 
profits of the fair, within the said manor of Leiston ; the profits of herrings — 

'At East bridge, in Theberton, Exchequer Depositions. 



114 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

upon every barrel four shillings ; the increased rent of £i. i8s. 4^., of the 
farm of Leiston Hall, &c., with divers farms ; the Rectory of Gorton, the 
Rectory of Aldringham, with the tithes and profits ; the perquisites and 
profits of the manor of Leiston, which monastery and manor of Leiston 
were of the yearly value of £11^. ys. iifi., late parcel of Charles Brandon, 
Duke of Suffolk, to be held of the Manor of East Greenwich in socage, 
under the yearly rent of £114. 7s. ii^d., payable at Michaelmas and Lady 
Day.' " 

By indenture dated 15th November, 1626, and made between the said 
Marquis, then Duke, of Buckingham, of the one part, the said Richard 
Miller of the second part, and Price Williams, and Anthony Nevill, of the 
third part, the said Duke for £4,500, bargained and sold to the said parties 
the Manor of Leiston, &c. In 1629 Richard Miller and Ahce his wife, Price 
Williams, and Anthony Nevill sold the same to Daniel Harvey, Eliab 
Harvey, and Matthew Harvey. The monastery and manor of Leiston, and 
all the lands sold to them by the Duke of Buckingham, the former parties, 
20th of May, in the sixteenth of the same reign, re-sold for £5,000, and thus 
made absolute the claim of the Harveys. 

Daniel Harvey survived Eliab and Matthew Harvey and died in 1666, 
having devised all the above-mentioned premises to his son and heir Daniel 
Harvey, who in 1725 appears as defendant in an action respecting the 
royalties of his Manor of Leiston, commenced by the daughters of Thomas, 
Earl of Strafford, as owners of the lordship of Aldborough.' 

There is an interesting statement in the suit by the plaintiffs with refe- 
rence to the boundaries of the manor in 1620 at a court held by the Marquis 
of Buckingham. The particulars are given at length by Suckling from the 
Jermyn and Davy MSS.^ 

The manor after Sir Daniel Harvey's death passed to Col. Daniel 
Harvey, afterwards General, who died in 1732, and from him passed to his 
widow. Lady Anne Harvey, who died in 1742, and was succeeded by her 
granddaughter, the Hon. Ehzabeth Montague, daughter of Edward, Lord 
Viscount Hinchinbrook. She married ist Kelland Courtenay, and 2ndly, 
William Smith, of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. She died 13th Dec. 
1762, and lies buried in Leiston Church. Suckling says, "By her marriage 
with Mr. Courtenay she left two daughters, her coheiresses, one of whom 
married William Poyntz, who in right of his wife appears to have held the 
Manor of Leiston jointly with Miss Ann Courtenay, her sister. By 'a 
particular of the estate ' drawn up soon after the decease of their mother 
it is shown that the gross rental of the estate was then £943. i6s. 6^d. 
Leiston Hall — reserved to the landlord— with the adjacent farm, was then 
rented at £190 per annum. The Abbey Farm, with a malting office thereon, 
in the occupation of Mr. Samuel Jesup— all tithe free— produced an 
annual rent of £150. The tolls of St. Andrew's fair, called ' Cold Fair,' 
were estimated at 13s. 4d., while the manorial rights, communibus annis, 
including the annual quit rents, producing £47. i8s. 8d., were fixed at 
£129. IS. 4id. The royalty is stated to be 'extensive in a fine sporting 
country, and abounding with game. The lord is entitled to wreck of the 
sea, and groundage for all ships and goods driven on shore upon the sea 

'A similar law-suit was entertained at and compelled to pay the costs, 

a period shortly subsequent by Suckling ii. 425. 

the lord of the Manor of Knod- ^Hist. ii. 428. 
dishall, in which he was non-suited 



LEISTON. 115 

coast within the precincts of this manor, which extends about four miles in 
length ; and is also entitled to line for all timber taken down upon the 
copyhold lands, holden of this manor."" 

The manor was about this time, that is about 1761, sold to Sir Joshua 
Vanneck, Bart., who died in 1771, from whom it has descended like the 
Manor of Heveningham in this Hundred, and is now vested in Lord Hunting- 
field. 

The customs of the manor were considered in an action in 1586 between 
Francis Colby and Thomas Dinnington and others,^ and an extent of the 
manor, 42 Eliz., will be found in the Exchequer Special Commission.^ 
A Survey of the woods in the manor m the 2nd year of James L is referred 
to in the Deputy Keeper's Report on the Public Records.* Particulars of 
Estreats, 16 James L and Court Rolls of the manor are in the P.R. Office.^ 
Amongst the State Papers in 1594 will be found mention of a lease in rever- 
sion to Francis Colby and Thomas Knightley for 31 years of demesne lands 
of Leiston Hall Manor,^ and amongst the same papers for 1619 there is a 
warrant to lessees in trust of the manor to surrender same to Lord Admiral 
Buckingham by right therein of Prince Charles.^ 

Leiston Warren was formerly parcel of the Manor of Leiston, and 
belonged to the monastery, " together with all great fishes called Fishes 
Royal or Hoggfish," found occasionally in the sea or upon the sands within 
the liberties of the monastery. This warren and all other profits of the 
manor were granted by Queen Henrietta Maria and the Commissioners 
for the said Queen by lease dated the 22nd June, 1638, to Barney Rimes to 
hold from the expiration of a former lease granted to John Brown dated 
13th March, 40 Eliz., for 30 years from Michaelmas, i6i7,for the term of 18 
years at the rent of £20. These were by order of the contractors conveyed 
to Giles Sumpter and his heirs for the sum of £779. los. The farmer of the 
warren had liberty to feed his sheep upon about 100 acres of Aldringham 
Common, and upon as many on Thorpe Common next adjoining to the said 
warren, and the inhabitants of Leiston, Sizewill Thorpe, and Aldringham 
claimed liberty commonage upon the said warren with all manner of great 
cattle from Lamas day (provided the com be off the ground) until Lady 
day.' 

Manor of Bade Hall or Wade Hall. 

This manor, of which very little is known, was vested in Theobald de 
Leiston in the time of Edward HL, and on Theobald's death passed to 
Margery de Leiston, who died in 1346. 

Nearly a century earlier we meet with a Theobald de Leiston, son of 
William de Leiston, who about 1260 or 1270 granted to his brother William 
an acre of land in Leiston at an annual rent ot2d. f and in 1299 the Abbey 
of Leiston impleaded John de Leyston and others for trespassing upon his 
Manor at Leiston and driving away the hares, which Suckling states to be the 
earliest prosecution for poaching, except in the Royal forests, with which he 
is acquainted. Further, in 1304 and the following year, the abbot leased 

'From original papers in the possession ^ Portfolio, 203, 99. 

of W. P. Hunt, Esq., of Ipswich, ^S.P. 1594, p. 530. 

and cited in Suckling's Hist, of Suff. ''S.P. 1619, p. 65. 

vol. ii. p. 430. ^Extract from a MS. formerly in possession 
*At Snape, Exchequer Depositions. of Sir Thomas Phillipps nowbelong- 

3D.K.R. 38 App. p. 64. ing to the writer. 

^38 Rep. App. p. 74. 'Bodl. Suff. Ch. 1199. 



ii6 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

lands in Theberton to this John de Leyston, and had eleven pounds rent 
from estates and Knoddishall, and on the Patent Rolls in 1307 we find a 
licence for ahenation in mortmain by this John de Leiston and Theobald 
his son to the abbey and convent of Leiston of 3| acres of pasture in 
Leiston in exchange for 16 acres and 3 roods of land there.' 

Just before the death of Margery de Leiston, 12th July, 1345, we 
meet with a licence on the Patent Rolls for the alienation in mortmain to 
Leiston Abbey by Richard de Burstede, parson of the church of Framling- 
ham, William Scarlet, parson of the church of Gunton, John Gerard, 
chaplain, and John Fraunceys, of Shadenfeld, of the reversion of this 
Manor of Wadehall and 125 acres of land, 12 acres of pasture, 70 acres of 
heath, 10 acres of marsh, and 20s. rent in Leiston, Aldringham, Chebeton% 
Knoddishall, Buxlow, Freston, Kelleshall, Middleton, Fordle, and 
Yoxford, after the death of Margery, late the wife of Theobald de 
Leyston, who held the same of them for hfe by an assignment 
which JohnBokel,of Freston, and Margery his wife, and Richard Bokel and 
Joan his wife, of whom the first named Margery held the same for life by 
demise of Rose de Shottesham and William de Shottesham, who had a life 
estate by demise of Theobald de Leyston, uncle of the said Margery, wife 
of John Bokel and Joan, whose heirs these were made of the same to the 
said Richard, William Scarlet, John and John, and the heirs of William 
Scarlet.' Whether pursuant to the licence an assurance was actually made 
to the abbey does not appear, but certainly in the time of Hen. VL the 
Manor of Wade Hall still appears to have been in the Leiston family, and 
it will be found mentioned in the inquis. p.m. of William Leyston, son of 
John Leyston, who died in 1438.* 

The Davy MSS. make William Leyston die 10 years later in error, but 
state that Joane Puttock, Margaret Codun, and Joan Rowtred were his 
cousins and heirs and to them the manor passed. 



'Pat. Rolls, 35 Edw. I. i. 'p^t. Rolls, 19 Edw. III. pt. ii. 24. 

="? Theberton. n.P.M,, 16 Hen. VI. 21. 



LINSTEAD. 117 




LINSTEAD. 

JHIS was held as a manor in King Edward's time by a freeman 
named Wolric, with 60 acres of land. There were 6 bordars, 
2 ploughteams in demesne, and i belonging to the tenants. 
There was sufficient wood for the support of 30 hogs and 
2 acres of meadow. The stock consisted of i rouncy, 4 
cows, 20 hogs, 30 sheep, and 20 goats, and the whole was 
valued at 20s. The value had increased by the time of 
the Domesday Survey to 30s., but a portion of the wood had been 
felled, and then there was but sufficient for the sustenance of 20 hogs. 

To the manor belonged 40 acres of land in Huntingfield held by 
4 men having formerly two ploughteams, but at the time of the Survey 
only one. And they had one bordar. The value of this addition was 8s. 
Over the land of the freeman here the soc and sac lay in Blythburgh to the 
use of the King and the Earl, and over the men themselves Edric, 
who was Robert Malet's predecessor, had commendation. 

The manor was at the time of the Survey held by Walter, son of Albricus, 
under Robert Malet the tenant in chief.' Robert Malet also had 8 acres 
here which were attached to Withersdale and included in its valuation/ 



Manor of Linstead Magna. 

This was held by William de Huntingfield, who died seised of the 
lordship in 1316, when it passed to his son and heir Roger, who died in 1337 
and was succeeded by his son and heir, William de Huntingfield. 

In the time of Elizabeth the manor was held by John Everard. This 
family was settled at White Hall on the north bank of the river between 
Wisbech St. Peter and St. Mary as early as 1300, and the name of John 
Everard occurs in certain presentments relative to straightening the river 
in 1438, and when King Edward VI. granted the Charter to the town of 
Wisbech, Richard Everard was nominated one of the ten men, his name 
standing second, and next to the brother of the then Lord Bishop.^ 

This was not unhkely the Richard Everard who by will in 1566 gave 
the Manor of Fitton's, in St. Gorman's, Wigenhall, in Norfolk, to John 
Everard, and by an inquisition taken at Hoxne in 1573 on the death of John 
Everard it was found that he died seised of it, with certain messuages, 
land, &c., in the parish of Linstead and Islington without issue, and that 
Henry Everard, of Linstead, was his cousin and heir. Henry Everard had a 
fine levied against him in 1583 by William Tyffyn.'* The Davy MSS. state 
that Henry Everard in 1602 held the mansion house called Pond Hall, 
and make him lord of the Manor of Linstead Magna, in which lordship he 
was succeeded by his brother and heir, William Everard. 

' Dom. ii. 311. 3 Watson's Hist, of Wisbech, p. 451. 

*Doin. ii. 311. •'Fine, Mich. 25-26 Eliz. 



ii8 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

The Pedigree or rather note of that given in the Davy MSS. shows 
who this William Everard was : — 

Richard Everard. 

of Leverington, nr. Wisbeach, 

CO. Cambridge. 



I I I 

Sir Martin Everard, Knt. Sir Bartholomew Richard 

d.s.p. Everard, Knt. Everard. 



John Everard, 
of Metfield. 



Henry Everard. John Everard = Margaret Dale, 

of Cratfield of Linstead. of Shanfield. 



John Everard= Margaret, d. of | 

of Cratfield I Bedingfield Henry Everard= Olive, d. of William 

of Ditchingham, j Parker, of Harrington. 

CO. Norfolk. 



I I I 
John Everard. = Elizabeth d. of Wm. Ralph Everard. = Maud d. of 01ive= Gavell. 
I Appleyard, of Donston. I Thomas 
I _| Comberford. 

i 1 

John Everard, = Dorothy, d. of John Henry Everard= Katharine, d. of 

of Gillingham, Chauncey, I Thomas Gaudie. 

CO. Norfolk. I 

, I 

Thomas Gaudy Everard = Agnes, d. of Francis 
I Mannock, of Stoke 
I juxta, Nayland. 

I 
William Everard=Dorothie, d. of Charles 
Waldegrave, of Kening- 
hall, CO. Norfolk. 



I I I 

Jerommy Everard = Eld. d. of Agnes. Dorothy. 

Edward Greene, m. — Paston, 

of Samford, co. Essex, of Appleton, co. Norfolk. 

PondhaU Manor is mentioned as a manor in Linstead Magna in the 
Additional Charters in the Brit. Mus., and there is a covenant by William 
Everard to levy a fine to Charles Waldegrave, of Stanringale, co. Norfolk, 
and Charles Buckland, of the same place, of this manor. The deed is 
dated 7th May, 19 Jac. I. [1421].' 

Agnes, a daughter and coheir of William Everard, of Linstead, married 
Wilham, 2nd son of Sir Edward Paston, of Appleton, in Norfolk. 

She died in 1676, aged 73 years, but it is known that she held this manor. 
We next find it vested in Sir Joshua Vanneck, Bart., who died in 1771, 
and from him it has descended like the Manor of Heveningham, in this Hun- 
dred, to and IS now vested in Lord Huntingfield. 

Arms of Everard : Argent, a fesse wavy, between three estoils Gules ; 
or Gules on a fesse Arg., between 3 estoiles Or, as many mullets Sa. 

Manor of Linstead Parva. 

This manor, hke the Manor of Linstead Magna, was vested in William 
de Huntingfield, who died in 1313, when it passed to his son and heir Roger, 
who dying in 1337 it devolved upon his son and heir, William de Hunting- 
field. 

'Add. Ch. 10432. 



LINSTEAD. 119 

In 1 149 William de Cayneto or Cheney held the lordship and 
gave it with his body to Sibton Abbey with which house it remained 
until the Dissolution, when it vested in the Crown, and in 1536 King 
Henry VIII. granted it with all the estates belonging to Sibton Abbey 
to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, and the grant was confirmed to the Duke 
by Statute in the 31st year of Hen. VIII. The next we hear of this 
manor is that it was held by Sir John Vanneck, Bart., who died in 1771, 
and the same has since devolved in like manner as the Manor of Linstead 
Magna, and is now vested in Lord Huntingfield. 

A Manor of Hovells, in Linstead, is mentioned in a Chancery suit in the 
time of Queen Elizabeth, in fact, the suit is respecting this manor, between 
WiUiam Brome and Olive his wife and Alice Lovedays, widow.' 



' C.P. Ser. ii. B. xii. 57. 



120 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

MELLS MANOR. 



T 



JELLS itself is now a hamlet of Wenhaston and the church 
is in ruins. In the time of Edward the Confessor the 
manor was held by Manning, a free man, and it consisted 
of 3 carucates of land. By the time of the Domesday 
Survey it does not seem to have varied much in character 
save that the mill of Saxon days had disappeared, and the 
value had risen from 50s. to 60s. The length was 10 
quarentenes and the breadth 7, and it rendered in a gelt 2d. To the 
manor belonged 8 villeins, 12 bordars, and 3 serfs. There were 
2 ploughteams in demesne and 3 belonging to the tenants. There 
were 5 acres of meadow and wood sufficient for the support of 100 
hogs, though only 30 appear in the particulars of the Survey. There were 
besides 2 rouncies, 7 beasts, and 16 sheep, and the manor was held by 
Robert de Todeni as the Domesday tenant in chief.' 

The manor passed from Robert de Todeni towards the close of the 
eleventh century, for we find it then vested in a certain Edward Fitz Hugh, 
who dropped the surname for one indicating his local connection, and 
was known as Ebrand de Mells. He is supposed to have come to England 
with the Conqueror, at least this is alleged by Peter de Mells in his claim for 
free warren in 1285. 

Ebrand de Mells gave to God and his church of St. Mary at Thetford, 
two parts of the tithes of his demesne in this hamlet andBesthorp in Norfolk, 
for which the Prior of the said church was taxed at 15s. Ebrand de Mells 
was succeeded in the lordship by Baldwin de Mells, and he by Radulphus 
de Mells, and he by Eudo de Mells. The manor in 1217 went to Radulphus 
de Mells, who was succeeded by Baldwin de Mells, and he by Peter de Mells, 
who died in 1272,'' and was succeeded by another Peter de Mells. This 
Peter held the manorial rights, and claimed to have free warren, view of 
frankpledge, and assize of bread and beer here.^ He died between 1311 
and 1316, leaving a son Peter to whom the manor descended, and he sold it 
to Sir Walter de Norwich, Knt.'* In an interesting and able account of the 
Chapel of St. Margaret Mells, by Dr. W. R. Gowers, in the 8th vol. of the 
Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute, p. 334, Sir John de Norwich is stated 
to have been the lord of the manor in 1302, and this agrees with the state- 
ment in the Davy MSS. There is however no evidence, so far as we can 
gather, that Sir John ever held the manor, and the course of descent is 
distinctly made apparent in the Close Rolls of Edw. II. There we find 
that in 1326 a deed is enrolled of Sarah du Brok, late wife of Peter de Brok, 
of Wysete, one of the daughters of Sir Peter de Mells, formerly lord of 
MeUs Manor, releasing the same to Sir Walter de Norwich, it being shown 
that the manor descended from Sir Peter to his son Peter, the brother of 
Sarah, who had granted to Sir Walter de Norwich.^ Sir Walter died in 1326,^ 
from which time the manor passed in the same course as the Manor of 
Dalham, in Risbridge Hundred, till the death of Sir John de Norwich in 
1374. The manor is specifically mentioned in the inquisition p.m. of 
Margery de Norwich, who died in 1366,'' and of Sir John de Norwich in 

' Dom. ii. 429&. III. 28. Sir John de Norwich. 

'I.P.M., I Edw. I. 34. I.P.M., 48 Edw. III. 52. 

3H.R. ii. 147, 148, 197, 198. Q.W. 721. 5 Close RqHs, 20 Edw. II. 141^. 

''I.P.M., 3 Edw. I. 58. Marjory wife of ^l.FM., 3 Edw. III. 58. 

John de Norwich. I.P.M. 40 Edw., ''I.P.M., 40 Edw. III. 20. 



MELLS. 121 

1374.' In 1374 the feoffees nominally of Katherine de Brewse, Sir John 
Plair, Sir Robert Howard, and others, made a grant of the manor to the use 
of Mettingham College, in whom the lordship continued until the dissolu- 
tion of the college and the surrender of the manor to the Crown. 

An extent of the manor is given in the Mettingham Chartulary preserved 
amongst the Stowe MSS. in the British Museum. It is as follows : — 

Made in i Ric. III. 1483. 

Via ducens de Capella de Sci Bartholomei usq. Knottforth 
Bridge. Via ducens de Capella de Wenhaston usq. Knotshale 
Bridge. Vetus Scitus manerij vocat. Wenhaston Halle cum 
pastura ex parte Occident de Capel. Sci Barthol. in Meilys ex 
parte australi capellas S. Margaretae ibidm. 

In clausum vocat. Meredale Londe cont. x acr. in Meilys unde 
i acra dicti in clausi decimatur Eccliae de Bromfeld et parcellam 
ejusdem clausi reddit decimas capellae de Melles et parcella inde 
decimatur Ecclise de Wenhaston.^ 

In 1541 the manor was granted by Edw. VI. to Sir Anthony Denny, 
Knt., at whose death 5th Sept. 1549^ it went to his son and heir, Henry 
Denny. 

In 1795 Michael CoUinson died seised of the manor, and was succeeded 
by his son, Charles Streynsham CoUinson, who died in 1831, and was 
succeeded by his son and heir, Charles R. J. CoUinson, who seems to have 
sold the manor in 1836 to Thomas Tarver MuUiner Nemle. The manor was 
in 1848 offered for sale by auction at the Angel, Halesworth, 20th June. 
There were then held of the manor 380a. 3r. 26p. of land in specified quan- 
tities, 6 uncontented pieces, and 12 messuages, and other outbuildings. 
The copyholds were subject to arbitrary fines on death or alienation. The 
quit and free rents payable to the manor amounted to ^^13. 6s. ^d. per 
annum. 



■I.P.M., 48 Edw. III. 52. ^I.PM. 4 Edw. vi. 105. 

= Stowe, 934. 

Q 




122 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

MIDDLETON. 

]HERE were two manors here in Saxon times^ the largest and 
most important being held by Aluric, a freeman, and later 
by Ranulf the nephew, and at the time of the Domesday 
Survey by William de Varennes in demesne. It consisted 
of 2 carucates of land and 6 acres of meadow. There were 
2 villeins, 8 bordars, and 4 serfs, and 2 ploughteams in 
demesne in the time of the Confessor, but the 2 ploughteams 
in demesne seem to have gone, as also 3 of the serfs by the time of 
the Survey, and in the place was half a ploughteam belonging to the 
tenants. The i rouncy of Saxon days had become 2, and there were 2 
cows, 20 hogs, and 50 sheep, all valued at 40s. 

A church was attached to the manor having 15 acres of glebe valued at 
2s. To the manor had been added 5 freemen and half a priest, holding 55 
acres and a half, and a ploughteam and a half in demesne, and 2 acres of 
meadow, of the value of los. 

The dimensions were 9 quarentenes long and 7 broad, and the payment 
was j^d. in a gelt. Over the last mentioned 6 men the King and the Earl 
had the soc and sac. The Aluric who held the manor in Saxon times was 
Robert's predecessor, Edric's man, and William Malet and Robert were 
seised of this land.' 

The other manor was held in the Confessor's time by Munulf, but by 
the time of the Survey it was held by Roger Bigot^ under Earl Hugh, whose 
predecessor had half commendation in Saxon times, and Robert Malet' s 
predecessor in title had the other. The manor consisted of 80 acres, 2 
villeins, 2 bordars, i ploughteam in demesne, and i belonging to the tenants 
with 2 acres of meadow. The whole was valued at los. in the Confessor's 
time and 20s. at the time of the Survey. The holding of Roger Bigot of 
Earl Hugh included also 6 acres. Brunwin who in the Confessor's time was 
wholly Manulf's man, Alfrac half, and Lefric half, Esmoda a woman 
wholly under Toll the sheriff, and Brihtmar her son was Brihtmar Robert 
Malet's provost's man, and he was so in respect of the 6th part of his land. 
Kenrich was Edrich, son of Ingold's man, and Grim the same. 

All these had 50 acres of land, i of meadow, and a ploughteam and a 
half valued at 8s., and the King and the Earl had the soc. The men Grim 
and Kenrich were under commendation to Edric, the predecessor of Robert 
Malet, who granted the profit of them to Walter de Caen after Walter de 
Dol made forfeiture.^ 

Besides the above there were four other little holdings in Middleton. 
Earl Alan had a freeman with 12 acres and a team of 2 oxen.^ Robert 
Malet had 2 freemen with 80 acres of land and 2 acres of meadow, with i 
bordar, valued at i6s. 

Gilbert le Blond at the time of the Survey held this of Malet and there 
was half a ploughteam on this holding.* The third holding was under Roger 
Bigot, of Leuric the deacon, a half freeman who had 3 acres valued at 12^., 
over whom Toll the Sheriff had a moiety of the commendation, and the 
King and the Earl had the soc. The last was the holding of Alvera a free- 
man, also under Roger Bigot, having 16 acres, a moiety of the commenda- 
tion being Norman's, and the other moiety Edric's. On this holding was 
I ploughteam, and the value was 4s., the King and the Earl having the soc.^ 

'Dom. ii. 400. ''Dom. ii. 312. 

''Dom. ii. 299&. ^Dom. ii. 335. 

^ Dom. ii. 292&. 



MIDDLETON. 123 

Fordley is now joined with Middleton, and is little more than a hamlet 
of it, but in Saxon times it was of more importance, and it figures several 
times in the Domesday Survey. Robert Malet then held two estates there. 
Edric a freeman held 60 acres and 3 bordars, and a ploughteam and a 
half, 4 acres of meadow, and a mill valued at lOs. ; and there were 6 free- 
men under commendation having 26 acres and i ploughteam valued at 
4s. The Domesday Survey informs us that this Edric was under commenda- 
tion to his great namesake of Laxfield, who was Robert Malet's predecessor 
before King Edward died. When the great Edric became an outlaw 
the Confessor seized all his lands, but afterwards becoming reconciled the 
King granted him back his lands, giving him a writing duly sealed to the 
effect that any freeman of his under commendation who might choose to 
return to him might return by Edric's permission. The lesser Edric King 
Edward seized after the Hundred saw no sign of his returning to his lord 
the greater Edric, but the lesser Edric objected to this, and offered wager 
of battle to prove that he had returned to his former lord, and held his 
freemen under his protection, and as to them he vouched Robert to warrant. 
The Survey says, " et ex eis revocat Robertson Warant," and Mr. Suckling 
reads the last word as a surname. Robert Malet had another small estate 
in Fordley, namely, one held by Gilbert le Blond, which in the Confessor's day 
was held by 2 freemen. It consisted of 24 acres formerly valued at los., 
and having i ploughteam and a half in demesne, but at the time of the 
Survey valued at 4s. and having no ploughteam. 

Malet had three freemen and a half freeman in Fordley having 27 acres 
of land and 2 acres of meadow and i ploughteam, of which the King and 
the Earl had soc, and the value was included in the valuation of Leiston. 
The three freemen were Swarting, Algar, and Herewold, and the half Osfert. 
The three were under commendation to Edric, but Osfert was wholly Toll's 
man.' 

Roger Bigot also had estates in Fordley. Fifteen freemen held 115 
acres of land, of whom 13 were under the commendation of Norman, and 
the other two had been under the joint protection of Edric of Laxfield 
and this Norman. On the estate were half a bordar, 4 ploughteams and a 
half, and 2 acres of meadow, all valued at 24s., and the King and the Earl 
had the soc. Twenty acres of Bigot's estate belonged to Kelsale and 9 
lay in Stykeland.^ 

Manor of Middleton with Fordley. 

This manor appears to have been vested with the advowson in William 
de Criketot, who held of William de Blanmostel in chief by the service of 
one knight's fee. William de Criketot died in 1269.^ A few years later we 
find the manor vested in Thomas de Weyland, who in 1273 granted the 
same to John de Brand and Marsila his wife, according to the Davy MSS. 
It does not appear whether it was by way of sale, and it could hardly have 
been to them as trustees by reason of the wife being introduced. 

The grant does not seem to have been an absolute conveyance, and 
may have been for the lives only of the grantor or of the grantee, for we find 
that in 1280 Thomas de Weyland had a grant of free warren here.* This 
was the notorious judge. In 1288 he was found guilty of infamous 
bribery and corruption ; his whole estate and his goods were confiscated, 
and he was banished the kingdom. Being convicted, and fearing to yield 

'Dom. ii. 3106, 314. 3I.P.M., 53 Hen. III. file 36 (18). 

"Dom. ii. 334, 334&. "Chart. Rolls, 8 Edw. I. 2. 



124 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

himself to the King's mercy, he went to a monastery of Gray Friars in 
Suffolk, and took on him the habit of that order ; but being discovered 
by some of his servants, he was watched and guarded, and after 2 months' 
siege went out, forsaking his friar's cowl, and was taken and sent to the 
Tower. 

As he was not banished until 1288 the above grant could not well have 
been in apprehension of a forfeiture. The manor passed in any case to 
his son John Weyland, for he held the lordship in 1288, and died seised in 
1313,' when it passed to his niece Cicily, the daughter and heir of his brother. 
Sir Richard de Weyland,^ who was married to the well-known warrior 
Bartholomew de Burghersh, who had a grant of free warren here in 1349,^ 
and died in 1369,* when the manor passed to his daughter Elizabeth, 
married to Edward le Despencer, nephew of Hugh Despencer, the son of 
Hugh Despencer, jun., one of the celebrated favourites of Edward II. 

Sir Edward Despencer attended the Black Prince into France, and 
shared with his father-in-law the glory of Poicters. He was for his gallant 
conduct in the French wars summoned to Parliament as Baron De Spenser 
from 25th Dec. 1357, to the 6th Oct. 1372, being also rewarded with the 
Garter. 

He had one son and four daughters — Thomas, who succeeded him, and 
to whom the manor passed ; Cecily, who died young ; Ehzabeth, married 
ist to John Arundel and 2ndly to the Lord Zouch ; Anne, married to 
Hugh Hastings and afterwards to Thomas Morley ; and Margaret, married to 
Robert Ferrers. Edward, Lord Despencer, died in 1375.^ His son Thomas, 
2nd Baron De Spencer, was created in 1397, Earl of Gloucester. He ob- 
tained a reversal of the sentence of banishment pronounced on his great- 
grandfather, Hugh Despencer the younger. In the petition he presented 
for the reversal of the order of banishment, it was set forth that his ancestor 
Hugh at the time possessed no less than 59 lordships in different counties, 
28,000 sheep, 1,000 oxen and steers, 1,200 kine with their calves, 40 mares 
with their colts of two years, 160 draught horses, 2,000 hogs, 3,000 bullocks, 
40 tuns 01 wine, 600 bacons, four score carcases of martinmas beef, 600 
muttons in his larder, ten tuns of cider, armour, plate, jewels, and ready 
money better than £10,000, 36 sacks of wool, and a library of books. He 
married Constance, daughter of Edmund Plantagenet, sumamed de Langley, 
Duke of York, 5th son of Edw. III., and had issue, one son Richard, and a 
daughter Isabel married to Richard Beauchamp, Lord Abergavenny, Earl 
of Worcester, by whom he had an only daughter and eventual heir (for 
RichardDespencer died a minor and without issue in 1414) Elizabeth, who 
married Edmund Nevill, a younger son of Ralph, Earl of Westmoreland. 

Thomas, Lord Despencer, adhering to the unfortunate King Rich. II., 
was on his deposition degraded from his earldom, and being taken prisoner 
while attempting to fly the kingdom, was condemned to death by a vote of 
the Commons, and carried into the market place at Bristol by the rabble, 
and there beheaded in the year 1400. It does not appear from this that the 
unfortunate nobleman was actually lord of the manor at the time of his 
execution, for we find in 1394 John Boor, clerk, Nich. Nyners and John 

'I.P.M., 6 Edw. II. 34. Grymmeston, chaplain. Feet of 

^The manor was with others included in a Fines, 6 Edw. II. 33. 

fine levied in 1313 by Rich, de ^ Chart. Rolls, 23 Edw. III. 3. 

Weyland, and Joan his wife against ''I.P.M., 43 Edw. III. pt. i. 14. 

Alexander de Saxmundham, parson ^j p ]\j_^ ^g Edw. III. pt. ii. 46. 

of Chyselford Church, and Peter de 



MIDDLETON. 



125 



Eyre, apparently lords, probably as trustees, and Thomas de Morley and 
Anne his wife, Thomas Lord Despencer's sister, mentioned as having the 
manor some years before her brother's unfortunate end. And further, 
after the death of Anne the manor seems to have passed to Richard Beau- 
champ, Earl of Warwick, in right of his wife Isabel, only daughter and 
heiress on the death of her brother in 1414, of Thomas, Lord Despencer. 
And a fine was in 1430 levied of the manor by John Verney, c'erk, and 
William Lee against the said Richard, Earl of Warwick, and Isabella his 
wife.' 

This same year, however, we find that James, Lord Audley,and Eleanor 
his wife, held their first court for the manor, and he did so in right of his 
wife, who was the widow of Thomas, Lord Despencer. The manor passed 
later to their son. Sir Humphrey Audley, Knt., for he and his feoffees held 
their first court m 1463. The Davy MSS. say that the King had the manor 
in 1471, and held a court this year, and Sir Richard Harcourt and other 
feoffees had it in 1475, but in i486 it is clear that it was back in (if it had 
ever departed from) the Audley family, and was then held by John Audeley, 
son and heir of Humphrey. 

Sir John Audeley had a fine levied against him with others by John 
Jenor and others in 1514,^ and died i8th April, 1530,^ when the manor 
passed to his grandson and heir John Audeley, who dying in 1534,"* it went 
to Edward Audeley, the brother and heir of John Audeley, who was found to 
be also the heir of Sir John Audeley. He held his first court 8th Oct., 29th 
Hen. VIII., and sold the manor in 1544 to Edmund Rous, of Sibton,' who 
conveyed it in 1550 to Thomas Tilney,of Hadleigh. We meet with a fine 
of this manor in 1556, levied by Henry Peppys against Simon Lane and 
others.® Thomas Tilney died in 1559, and was succeeded by his grandson 
Philip Tilney. A fine was levied of the manor in 1567 by Thomas Colby 
against the said Philip Tylney.^ Philip Tilney so'd the manor to Robert 
Bedingfield, of Ditchingham, in 1569, and he sold it in 1571 to Philip Tilney, 
of Shelley, who sold it three years later, by deed dated 20th July, 1574,^ to 
Edward Honing of Carlton, who sold it, by deed dated 20th July, 1590, 
to Edward Page, sen., of Framlingham. About 1595 it passed to his son 
and heir William Page, from whom it passed to his son and heir, Edward 
Page, of Little Glenham, who by deed dated ist Oct. 1616, sold the lordship 
to John Woodcock, of Middleton, the elder, and his son and heir John 
Woodcock the younger, who held their first court in 1621. John Wood- 
cock the elder resided in Middleton, and was owner of an estate of about 
^150 a year. He occupied the position of Chief Constable of Blything 
Hundred, and was one of the feodaries of the patronage of Middleton, it 
being endowed with very little for the maintenance of a minister. On his 
death the manor passed to his son, John Woodcock, who held his first court 
in 1646, and married Frances, daughter of Robert Matthew, of Sutton. By 
indenture dated 5th Sept. 1666, on the marriage of his son, John Wood- 
cock, with Catherine, one of the daughters of Robert Aldous,of Huntingfield, 
he settled the manor, subject to a life interest therein in favour of himself 
and his wife Frances, on his son John and Catherine Aldous in fee. On 
the death of the last John Woodcock 9th Feb. i68i,the manor passed to 
his widow Catherine, and on her death 12th Sept. 1718, in thirds to his 



'Feet of Fines, 8 Hen. VI. 14. 
^Fine, Easter, 6 Hen. VHI. 
3I.P.M., 23Hen. VHI. 8. 
"I.P.M., 27Hen. VHI. 19. 



'Fine, Easter, 36 Hen. VHI. 
^ Fine, Mich. 3 Mary I. 
^Fine, Mich. 9 Eliz. 
^Confirmed 20th May, 1595. 



126 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

three daughters, Catherine Woodcock, Honour Woodcock, and Frances 
Woodcock. Catherine married John Martin, of Brundish, and Frances 
married the Rev. Thomas Meadows, of Benacre.' 

Honour Woodcock by a settlement effected by indenture dated 21st 
and 22nd July, 1718, Hmited her third share to herself for hfe, and after her 
death to Catherine her sister for life, with remainder to Catherine's daughter, 
Mary Martin, in fee. Honour died 3rd Aug. 1718, and Thomas Meadows 
and Frances his wife, by deed dated 22nd Oct. 1718, sold their third share 
to the said John Martin and Catherine his wife for ^^265, and the Martin 
family thus secured the whole. 

Catherine Martin died in July, 1720, and on the death of John Martin, 
19th Nov. I72i,the manor vested in his daughter and heir, Mary Martin, 
who died unmarried about 1728. Suckling says : " In 1730 Mrs. Ann 
Freak held her first court for the Manors of Middleton with Fordley, &c., 
but by what transfer she became possessed of them I have not ascertained. 
Mary Freak, the daughter of Mrs. Ann Freak, derived this manor from her 
mother, which she held in 1751."^ This is hardly correct. MaryFreake, 
the one child of Ann Freake, took under the will of John Martin, dated 15th 
Nov. 1722, on the death of his daughter Mary, the gift being to " Anne 
Barton formerly Freake," his kinswoman in tail. Mary Freake sold the 
manor in 1751 to Eleazer Davy, of the Grove, Yoxford, who did not hold his 
ist court till 1785, and died in 1803, leaving the manor by his will to his 
nephew, David Elisha Davy, who sold it in 1827 to John Woods, of Darsham, 
on whose death it was purchased by the Rev. Charles Montagu Doughty, of 
Theberton Hall. He married Frederica, daughter of the Hon. and Rev. 
Frederick Hotham, and dying in 1850 the manor passed to his eldest son 
and heir, Henry Montagu Doughty, of Theberton Hall, who is the present 
lord. He married Edith Rebecca, only daughter of D. Cameron, Chief 
Justice of Vancouver's Island, and has a son, Charles Hotham Montagu 
Doughty. 

A fine of the manor was levied in 1594 by Milo Southwell and others 
against Henry Townsend.^ 

Arms of Woodcock : Or., on a bend engrailed Gu., 3 cross crosslets, 
fitche of the field. Of Meadows : Az. a chevron Arg. between 3 pelicans 
Or, vulning themselves Gu. 

Manor of Chickering. 

This manor was held in 1422 by William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk. 
Sir John de la Pole, Knt., S'r Robert Bolton, Knt. and others were feoffees. 
In 1587 Edward Heron and John Nicholas held it, and sold to Sir Thomas 
Yawdy, Knt., and Theophilus Adams. Thomas Rous about this time seems 
to have had a term in the manor, and a little later Sir Arthur Heveningham 
had an interest. 

In 1666 it was vested in John Woodcock, and subsequently devolved 
in the same course as the main manor, though it does appear that Ann 
Freake, the mother of Mary Freake, held a court 22nd May, 1730, and that 

' Frances was his ist wife. He was Rector Brandeston, who survived him. 

of Benacre and Frostenden. He Mr. Meadows died in 1742, and was 

married 2ndly Sarah, 3rd daughter interred in the parish church of 

of Thomas Ling, Prebend of Exeter, Middleton. 

and srdly Elizabeth, the eldest ^Suckling, ii. 315. 

daughter of Thomas Rivett, of ^Fine, Mich. 36-37 Eliz. 



MIDDLETON. 



127 



a special court was held byEleazer Davy, 20th Oct. 1789. The customs of 
the manor, as given by extracts from the Court Rolls made by John 
Martin, will be found in the Davy MSS.' 

Manor of Austin's. 

John Austyn held this manor in the time of Edw. I., and it passed from 
him to his son and heir, Augustine Austyn, and from him to his son and 
heir, William Austyn, who died in 1329, and was succeeded by his son and 
heir, Thomas Austyn, who died in 1338. 

Another Thomas " Austeyne " is mentioned here in 1428, but it is not 
clear that he held the manor. Amongst the early Chancery Proceedings we 
meet with a Chancery suit by William Austyn, chaplain, against John Mors, 
executor of Agnes, late the wife of William Gardyner, as to the purchase 
money of this manor whereof he had enfeoffed the said Agnes on going to 
Rome, and which she had sold on hearing that he was dead." The next 
lord we find is Sir William Jenney, Knt., who died seised in 1483, and 
was succeeded by his son and heir, Sir Edmund Jenney,^ who died 26th 
Aug. 1522, when the manor passed to his grandson, Francis Jenney, the son 
of William Jenney, son of the said Sir Edward, as his next heir.* who dying 
in 1590 it passed to his son and heir Arthur, who dying in 1604 it went to 
his grandson and heir, Sir Arthur Jenney, who died in 1608,^ when it vested 
in his son and heir. Sir Robert Jenney, who died in 1695. 

At the opening of the 19th century we find the manor purchased by the 
Rev. Daniel Packard, who died seised in 1819, leaving the lordship by will 
to his second son, Daniel Packard. 

Manor of Brent Fen. 

This manor seems to have been held in the time of Hen. IIL by Jonah 
de Pirnho, from whom it passed to his son and heir, William de Pirnho. On 
his death the manor passed to his two daughters Sara — married to James 
de Creke,^ and Helewise, married to Hugh de Swyllington. In the i6th and 
17th years of Edw. I. WiUiam, son of James de Creke and Sara de Pirnho 
granted by fine to Robert de Swillington, son of Hugh de Swyllington and 



' Brit. Mus. Add. MSS. 19079. Fol 237 et seq. 

^E.C.P. Bundle 61, 394. 

^Possibly Sir William Jenney did not have 
the manor, and it may have been 
held by Sir Edmund Jenney in 
right of his wife Catherine, daughter 
and heir of Robert Boys, who died 
about 1448. 

*I.P.M. taken at Beccles, 15 Hen. VIII. 53. 

^ See Knottishall Manor, in this Hundred. 

^ The family of de Creke had been connected 
with the parish of Middleton from 
a very early date, for in the loth 
year of King John the Countess 
Gundred, a wife of Roger de Glanville, 
relict of Bigod, Earl of Suffolk, 
sued Robert de Creke for a 
reasonable dower in a free 
tenement, &c., her late husband's 
(Roger Glanville), in this parish 
and those of Yoxford and Bacton. 
Sir Robert had married the daughter 



and heiress of the Glanvilles. Sir 
Roger de Glanvile granted the 
advowson of the parish church 
of Middleton to the Abbot and 
Praemonstatensian Canons a tLeiston . 
The de Creke family took their 
name from North Creak, in Norfolk, 
where they were lords and long 
resided. Sir Robert had by his 
marriage with the Glanville heiress 
a son and heir, Bartholomew, who 
in the time of Hen. III. gave lands 
to the monastery of St. Osyth, 
in Essex, and died about the 36th 
of that reign. By Margery his 
wife, daughter and heir of Jeffrey 
de Anos, Lord of Hellington, in 
Norf. he had three sons and a 
daughter, who all died without 
issue. John, the youngest, inherited 
after the decease of his brothers, 
and died about 1283. 



128 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

Helewise de Pirnho^ two parts of the manor and the reversion of the third 
part which Joan, late wife of John de Creke, held in dower of the inheritance 
of William.' This Robert Swillington had a grant of free warren here in 
1294.^ 

Robert Swilhngton was succeeded in the lordship by his son and heir, 
Wilham, who also had a grant of free warren here in 1311,^ and died in 1328 
without issue, when the manor passed to his brother and heir, Sir Adam 
de Swillington. He also had a grant of free warren for this lordship in 1329,"* 
and had issue by Joan his wife two sons. Sir Adam and Sir Robert. Sir 
Adam, son of Sir Adam, had a son Sir Robert de Swillington, jun., so called 
to distinguish him from his uncle, Sir Robert. 

Sir Robert, jun., in 46 Edw. HI., released to Sir Robert, sen., his uncle, 
this lordship, with that of Yoxford, for life. Sir Robert de Swillington, jun. 
married a person named Margaret, and died in 1391,^ when the manor passed 
to his son and heir. Sir Roger de Swillington, who died in 1417 or 1418,'* 
when it passed to his widow Joan for life in dower. She died in 1428^, 
when her only son. Sir John Swillington, having died the same year as 
or the year after his father, the manor passed to his (Sir Roger's) daughter 
Margaret, married to Sir John Gray, Knt., of South Ingleby, co. Lincoln. 
She died two years later without issue. '^ 

Some assert that Sir John Swillington, who died in 1418 or 1419, 
left a natural son Robert, known as Thomas Hopton, while other authorities 
state that Sir Robert de Swillington, sen. left a natural son, Thomas Hopton, 
who had a son John Hopton, residing at Yoxford. The first surmise is 
out of the question ; all that is known for certain is that in the will of Sir 
Robert de Swillington, dated 7th July, 1391, there is a legacy of xxli. to 
" Thomas de Hopton bastard." 

In 1428 a release of the manor with other manors was made by Robert 
Sampson and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas de Swillington, a 
younger son of Sir Robert de Swillington, jun., of all right to this John 
Hopton, son of Thomas, upon whom a previous settlement had been made, 
and the manor was conveyed in 1471 to him by Robert Banyard, who 
presumably was a trustee of some sort. In the deed, which is amongst the 
Harleian Charters in the Brit. Museum and dated at Westminster 28th 
July, II Edw. IV., are included the Manors of " Westleton Lembaldes, 
Cleydons, and Rysynges, Yoxford, Stikland, Medilton, Brendfen and 
Muryels." 

This John Hopton and Thomasine his wife, by deed dated 20th March 
16 Edw. IV. [1474] at Middleton, conveyed the manor to Roger Townshend, 
Nicholas Sydney, Thomas Westcote, Thomas Gent, Alexander Belle, and 
Richard Baxster/ no doubt by way of settlement ; for we find the manor 
included in the inquisition p.m. of John Hopton, who died in 1479," and 
indeed to the time of Arthur Hopton, son of Sir Owen Hopton, who died 
in i59i,it passed in the same course as the Manor of Blythburgh, in this 
Hundred. 

In 1602 the manor was purchased by Sir Robert Broke, of Ashfield 
Hall." He died lOth July, 1646, and was succeeded by his son and heir, 

'See Abbr. of Pleas, 16 and 17 Edw. I. ^Extent, I.P.M., 6 Hen. VI. 52. 

Mag. record, Mich. 119. "I.P.M., 8 Hen. VI. 40. 

^Chart. Rolls, 22 Edw. I. 11. ^Harl. 516, 13. 

3 Chart. Rolls, 4 Edw. II. 6. '° I.P.M., 19 Edw. IV. 70. 

"Chart. Rolls, 2 Edw. III. 89. "See Manor of Aspal, in Hartismere 



5I.P.M., 15 Rich. II. pt. i. 61. Hundred. 

6I.P.M., 5 Hen. V. 46. 



MIDDLETON. 129 

Sir Robert BrokCj who married Anne Margaret^ daughter of Sir Henry 
Mildmay, of Wansted, co. EsseXj and had a daughter only, of whom her 
mother died in childbirth, and they were buried together 7th Jan. 1666, at 
Yoxford. 

Sir Robert Broke lost his life in the river Rhone in France in 1669, 
and the manor passed to his sister Martha, married to Sir WiUiam Blois. 

He died in 1675, after which the manor descended in the Blois family 
in the like course with the Manor of Blythburgh, in this Hundred. 

A " Middleton Manor" is included in a fine levied in 1587 by Henry 
Sidner and others against Arthur Jenney.' 

Arms of Swillington : Arg. a Chevron Az. 



' Fine, Easter, 29 Eliz. 




130 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

PEASENHALL. 

jHERE were four manors here in King Edward the Con- 
fessor's time — two held by two freemen named Leofsi and 
Stanwin and two by Norman. The two former by the 
time of the great Survey were in the hands of Robert Malet, 
and form the manors later known as Jurdis and Fulesham, 
while the two latter were held by Roger Bigot and later 
composed the main manor. 

Besides the manor there were a few small holdings. One was that of 
a freeman Aylmar under commendation to Edric, with 12 acres and half a 
ploughteam, valued at 2s., of which the King and the Earl had the soc. This 
Gilbert held of Robert Malet as tenant in chief.' Another was the holding 
of a freeman under commendation, who had 6 acres valued at 8d. This 
was in the occupation of Walter de Caen and held also of Robert Malet." 

Another was a holding of Ranulf, Walter's son, under Roger Bigot, 
which consisted of 3 villeins and a bordar with 60 acres of land. There 
were 2 ploughteams belonging to the tenants and wood sufficient for sus- 
taining 40 hogs. The Survey adds that the land lay in Saxmundham, 
and that the King and the Earl had the soc.^ 

We find yet another manor mentioned under lands in Plomesgate 
Hundred. It was held of Roger Bigot by Ranulph, the soc belonging to 
theAbbot of St. Edmund's. It consisted of 60 acres "in another hundred," 
the value in Saxon times having been £y, it being set to farm for £g. los., 
and at the time of the Survey being put at £y. To this manor had been 
added 7 freemen formerly under commendation to Algar, one, Ulnod, being 
under commendation to Malet' s successor. At the time of the Survey 

Ranulph held this estate of Roger Bigot. There were 3 (reduced to 

2 when the Survey was taken), and 4 acres of meadow, formerly valued at 
los. 4d., but at the time of the Survey at 4^. less. The soc belonged to the 
abbot. 

Peasenhall Manor. 

In the Confessor's time this was held by Norman, as two manors, with 
2 carucates of land and 4 acres of meadow. There were 8 villeins, 10 bordars, 
2 serfs, and 2 ploughteams in demesne, while there were 5 belonging to the 
tenants. The wood was considerable, for there was estimated to be sufficient 
for the sustenance of 200 hogs. The value in Saxon times was 60s., but by the 
time of the Survey it had risen to 80s. There were also 4 freemen under 
commendation, holding 40 acres with a ploughteam and a half, and wood 
for 8 hogs, all of the value of 6s. The above-named Norman continued in 
possession, and at the time of the Domesday Survey he had the soc of the 
manor and of two of the freemen, the King and the Earl having that of the 
other two. The tenant in chief was Roger Bigot.* From him the manor 
descended to Roger Bigot, 5th Earl of Norfolk, in the same course as the 
Manor of Framlingham, in Loes Hundred. 

Ministers' accounts of the lands of Roger Bigot, Earl of Norfolk, in 
Peasenhall, 52 Hen. III. and 21 Edw. I. will be found in the Record Office,^ 
and accounts i and 7 Edw. I.® 

'Dom. ii. 314. '•Dom. ii. 331&, 333. 

'lb. ^Bundle 1003, No. 10-20. 

3 Dom. ii. 3386. ^Bundle 995, No. i. 



PEASENHALL. 131 

Roger, 5th Earl of Norfolkj^died in 1306, having made King Edw. I. 
his heir.' The surrender of his estates was actually made by the Earl to 
the King in the former's Ufetime, and we find on the Patent Rolls in 1291 
a grant of restitution of the Manor of Peasenhall to Roger le Bygod, Earl of 
Norfolk, and Alice his wife, and the heirs of the said Roger, " which the 
King formerly had of the gift of the said Earl by charter.'" 

In 1302 (though as the Earl had no issue to inherit under the above, 
grant from the King he had no power to make such grant) he appears to have 
granted this manor to Nicholas de Segrave and Alice his wife, and the heirs 
of Nicholas, for we find on the Patent Rolls for this year that the King 
confirmed this grant of the Earl.^ 

This Nicholas de Segrave was known as of Barton, and was summoned 
to Parliament as "Nicholas de Segrave, jun.," from 24th June, 1295, to 
26th Jan. 1296-7, and as "Nicholas Segrave" from thence to 25th May, 1321. 
He is styled by Matthew Paris, " unus de prsestantioribusmilitibus de regno." 
He was accused of treason by Sir John de Crombwell and forthwith challenged 
his accuser in defence of his innocence to single combat, but the King 
not vouchsaving his consent to the duel, Nicholas de Segrave crossed the seas 
for the purpose of fighting the matter out on a foreign shore. This he having 
done without licence resulted in his being arrested on his return to this 
country and being brought to trial. The judges, after a delay of three days, 
passed in consultation, decided that Nicholas was deserving of death, and 
that all his goods should be confiscated. They however added " that in 
regard that he went not out of England in any affront to the King, but to 
be revenged on his accuser, he (the King) might do well to pardon him." 
The King was extremely displeased at the boldness of his judges, who seemed 
to set bounds to his prerogative, and gave them a severe reprimand, but 
nevertheless pardoned Segrave, and after he had been committed to 
prison for a few days as an example to other offenders his possessions were 
restored to him, " divers of the nobility," it is said, " having interceded 
for him and become sureties for his iuture good behaviour." In 1306 
Segrave had summons to be at Carlisle to attend the King in an expedition 
into Scotland, and in 1307 was constituted governor of the Castle of 
Northampton and Marshal of England. Upon the grant of marshalship to 
him considerable animosity was shown him by William le Mareshall. 
which was only allayed by the King's interference. For some years a suit 
relating to the manor was carried on between Alicia, the widow of Roger 
Bigot and Nicholas de Segrave and Alice his wife ; particulars of this 
suit will be found on the Close Rolls for 1309, 1311, 1312, and 1313/ 

Nicholas de Segrave obtained licence to settle the manor in 1315^ on 
his only daughter Maud in tail. 

Nicholas died in 1321 or 1322 seised of the manor,° when it passed to 
his said daughter and heir Maud, married to Edmund de Bohun, of Church 
Brampton, co. Northampton. She does not seem to have held long, for 
according to Davy, Alice, wife of Roger de Everyngham, died seised of it 
in 1322, and the manor is no doubt mentioned in her inquisition p.m. this 
year.'' Davy further states that the manor then passed to Edmund 
Montacute, who died in 1350. 

' I. P.M., Roger Bigod and Alicia, 35 Edw. * Close Rolls, 2 Edw. II. 6i.,4Edw. II. 22 
I. 46. Schedule 6 Edw. II. 16. Rolls of 

^Pat. Rolls, 19 Edw. I. 7. Parliament i. 324. 

3 Pat. Rolls. 30 Edw. I. 8. Extent Roger ^I.Q.D. 9 Edw. II. 54. N.R. File 112- 1. 

le Bygod, Earl of Norfolk, I.P.M., « I.P.M., 15 Edw. II. 37. 

30 Edw. I. 86, '■i.p.M., 16 Edw. II. 36, 



132 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

Page however asserts that in the 17th Edw. II. Michael de Segrave 
held of him in capite this manor as of the Castle of Norwich by the service 
of one knight's fee. There is one entry on the Pat. Rolls in 1333 which 
does not seem consistent with either the supposition of Davy or Page. 
It is a pardon from the Crown to John de Loudham and Joan his wife for 
entering without Ucence on this manor, stated to be held in chief, and which 
had been granted to them by Richard de Bed5mgfield, Vicar of Freston, 
Godfrey de Loudham and William Tastard, who had acquired the manor 
for their Uves from Edmund de Bohun, also without licence, the King 
granting hcence to the said John de Loudham and Joan his wife to retain 
the manor during the lives of the said Richard, Godfrey and William.' 

In 1350 the manor is mentioned in the inquis. p.m. of John, son of 
William de Cleydon." Mary, the widow of Thomas de Brotherton, Earl of 
Norfolk, who died in 1362, is said to have held the lordship, but this is 
doubtful, though Margaret, Coimtess of Norfolk, daughter and heir of this 
Thomas de Brotherton, certainly did hold. 

She married ist John, Lord Segrave (grandson of John de Segrave, 
2nd Baron, eldest brother of Nicholas Segrave, of Barton), who certainly 
died seised of the manor in her right in 1353.^ She subsequently married 
Sir Walter de Manny, and he died seised in her right in 1372.^ 

She died in 1398-9, when it passed to her daughter, Elizabeth Segrave, 
married to John de Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray. Elizabeth survived 
and had this manor assigned to her in dower, and she exchanged the same 
for the Castle of Bretby, co. Derby. 

The manor then probably passed to her eldest son, John de Mowbray, 
created Earl of Nottingham on the day of the coronation of King Rich. II. 
in 1377, who died three years later under age and unmarried, when it 
went to his brother, Thomas de Mowbray, 6th Baron Mowbray,' constituted 
in 1386 Earl Marshal by reason of his descent from Thomas de Brotherton. 

In 1396 he was created Duke of Norfolk, the grandmother, Margaret, 
Duchess, being still alive. He was accused by Henry, Duke of Hereford 
(afterwards Hen. IV.), of having uttered disrespectful words respecting the 
King, and a challenge ensued, and a day was named for the combat, when the 
lists were accordingly set up at Gosford Green, Coventry, and the King 
and Court were present, but just as the combatants were about to engage 
and the charge had been actually sounded, the King interfered and 
prohibited the intended conflict, banishing the Duke of Hereford for 10 
years and the Duke of Norfolk for life. 

The Duke of Norfolk accordingly left the country never to return, for 
he died at Venice in 1400, some say of the pestilence, others say of grief. 
The manor is mentioned in his inquisition p.m. this year.^ An extent of 
the fees of the Duke in Peasenhall will be found amongst the Additional 
Charters of the Brit. Mus.^ ' An account of the proceeds of the Manor of 
Peasenhall belonging to Margaret, Countess of Norfolk, Rich. II., of which she 
died seised i Hen. IV., will be found amongst the Arundel MSS. in the College 
of Arms.' 

The manor then passed to the Crown and was granted by Hen. VI. 
to John de Mowbray, 8th Baron Mowbray, restored in the 3 Hen. VI. to 

' Pat. Rolls, 7 Edw. III. pt. i. 20. s gee account of these in Framlmgham 

^I.P.M., 24 Edw. III. 80. Manor, Loes Hundred. 

^I.P.M.. 27 Edw. III. 69. «I.P.M., I Hen. IV. 710172. 

♦I.P.M., 46 Edw. III. 38. „ ; 'Add. Ch. 19338. 

^No. 49, Vol. 96. 



PEASENHALL. 133 

the dignity of Duke of Norfolk. He held his first court for the manor in 
1426, and died in 1432/ when the manor passed to his son, John de Mowbray, 
3rd Duke of Norfolk. 

He held his first court for this manor in 1437, and died in 1461,'' when 
the manor passed to his son, John de Mowbray, as 4th Duke of Norfolk and 
Earl Marshal. He had a grant of privileges in Peasenhall in 1465,^ and 
obtained an Act of Parhament enabling him to lease the manor for 5 years 
in 1475.* 

He had an only daughter, Lady Anne Mowbray, contracted to Richard, 
son of King Edward IV., but who died before consummation of the marriage. 
The 4th Duke of Norfolk died in 1475.^ 

Davy says that Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, had a grant of the manor, 
and was attainted in 1485, when it passed to the Crown, and was in 1513 
granted to John de Vere, Earl of Oxford. There is, however, an Act of 
Parhament confirming this manor to the Duke of Norfolk in 1488.* , 

It is clear however, and Davy also mentions the fact, that Richard, 
Bishop of Winchester, John, Lord Berners, and others who were feoffees of 
Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, held a first court of the manor in 1517, and that 
in 1558 Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, himself held a first court. This 
Duke seems to have leased the manor for a term, and the lessees, John Blener- 
hasset, WiUiam Dixe, William Cantrell, and Leon Banastre held their first 
court in 1569. 

In 1583 a fine was levied of the manor by Roger Townshend and others 
against PhiHp, Earl of Arundel.^ 

In 1588 Edward Carrell, John Holdyche, Richard Godfrey, John 
Holland, and John Repez, as lessees and tenants of Philip, Earl of Arundel, 
held their first court, but shortly afterwards the manor passed into the 
Barker family, and Edmund Barker held his first court 15th May, 1611, 
and died 21st July, 1626, when the lordship passed to his son and heir, 
Thomas Barker, who held his first court 7th Dec. 1626, and died in 1642, 
and was succeeded by his son and heir, Edmund Barker. This Edmund 
held his first court 25th April, 1644. He married Mary, eldest daughter 
of Sir William Cooper, of Rathing Court, co. Kent, and dying 7th Dec. 1676, 
the manor passed to his brother and heir William. 

William Barker held his first court i8th April, 1677, and by his will 
22nd Sept. 1684, devised the manor to his kinsman, Francis Barker, of Sibton, 
for life, and then in tail with remainder to Edmund Barker, son of George 
Barker, testator's uncle, for life, with remainder to Nicholas Barker, eldest 
son of the said Edmund for life, and then in tail male with remainder to 
Edmund Barker, next brother to Nicholas for life, with remainder to his 
(testator's) own right heirs. William Barker died 26th Dec. 1685, when he 
was succeeded by his cousin Francis Barker, alias Chapman, who held his 
first court 7th April, 1686, and died 6th April, 1707,** when the manor passed 
to his widow Elizabeth, daughter of William Jermy, of Stutton Hall, who 
held her first court 17th April, 1707. 

On Elizabeth's death the manor vested in her son Francis, who held 
his first court ist April, 1719. By deed dated 27th Aug. 1719, he settled 
the manor on himself for life, and afterwards on Ceciha his wife for Hfe, by 

' I. P.M., II Hen. VI. 43. ^ Rolls of Parliament, vi. 411 (1503) lb. 529. 

"I.P.M. I Edw. IV., 46. • 'Fine, Easter, 25 Eliz. 

3 Chart. Rolls, 8, 9, and 10 Edw. IV. 14. ^Will dated nth Feb. 1705, proved 20th 

■* R.P. vi. 127. April, 1707. 

5 1.P.M., 17 Edw. IV. 58. 



134 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

way of jointure, with remainder to his children. By his will dated ist Jan. 
1732, proved ist Aug. 1734, he confirmed this settlement, and gave the 
manor to Thomas Barker, his son, but in case he should die under 21 
without issue then to his other son, and if no son, then to his daughter or 
daughters. Francis died in 1734, and the manor passed to his widow 
Cecilia, who held her first court 22nd Feb. 1734, and died in 1740, being 
succeeded by her daughter Elizabeth, married to Robert Lynch. 

By indenture 27th April, 1750, between Robert Lynch Blosse , of Belstead , 
and Elizabeth his wife, described as the only daughter of Francis Barker, 
and niece and devisee of the will of Tobias Blosse, of Little Belstead, a fine 
was levied of the Manor of Belstead, and a recital in the deed shows that a 
fine had been levied of this manor and the Manors of Baddingham Hall 
and Colston Hall, the uses being to the said R. L. Blosse and Elizabeth 
his wife, and the survivor and the heirs and assigns of the survivor in fee. 
By deed dated 17th Jan. 1754, R. L. Blosse for ^^14,800 sold to John Blosse 
this manor and the Manors of Baddingham Hall and Colston Hall and the 
Sibton Estate, containing in the whole 64ga. 2r. 3p., and then let at rents 
amounting to ^^436. 7s. 5^. The quit rents of the several manors then were 
as follows : Peasenhall ;^2i. 19s. ^d., Baddingham Hall ^15. 6s. lod., and 
Colston Hall;£2i. i6s. The average of fines upon a calculation of 21 years 
amounted to £74. 14s. 6d. The whole of the lands in Sibton were said to 
be tithe free, except paying to the vicar about £4. 4s. in lieu of small tithes. 
The whole estate was then valued at £15,038. 2s. 6d. Mileson Edgar 
was the cousin and heir at law of John Blosse, and by deed dated 6th April, 
1756, in which the above manors and the Sibton property, and also Occolts 
otherwise Ocolte Hall, otherwise Occolt, otherwise Occolt Hall," were 
included, the uses of a fine to be levied were declared to be in favour of the 
said Mileson Edgar in fee.' Mileson Edgar, of the Red House, Ipswich, 
held his first court, 7th June, 1754. By his will 2nd March, 1770, he 
directed this and the Manors of Baddingham Hall and Colston Hall, and 
the Sibton Estate, to be sold to pay debts and legacies, and this manor 
was purchased by Thomas Staunton, of St. Margaret's, Westminster, for 
;^i9,ooo by deeds dated 17th and i8th May, 1773, from Elizabeth Edgar, 
widow, Francis Brooke, of Ufford, and John Edgar, the executors of Mileson 
Edgar. 

The properties actually conveyed were the Manors of Peasenhall, 
Baddingham Hall, and Colston Hall, the tithes impropriate Rectories of Sibton 
and Peasenhall, the right of patronage to the Vicarage of Sibton and Chapel 
of Peasenhall, with the rest of the Sibton Estates. The area of land was 
657a. ir. 28p., the rental being then £647. 12s. 2d. The quantity of the 
copyhold was stated to be 6ia. ir., and the amount of the quit rents £10. 
14s. g^d. The Vicarage of Sibton was stated to be worth £120 a year and 
the timber upon the estates estimated at ;£i,200. By deeds dated 23rd and 
24th Feb. 1779, the purchaser, Thomas Staunton, mortgaged the property 
to Sir Gerard William Vanneck, Bart., for ;£io,ooo, and made his will 19th 
May, 1778, whereby he gave all his estates upon trust to pay certain annuities 
and to raise certain sums for his daughters, Bettenson Staunton and Ehzabeth 
Catherine, then the wife of James Cumberland Bentley, and devised his 
manors to trustees in trust for the use of his grandson and heir, Thomas 
Staunton, an infant, for life, and then in tail male with remainder to 
testator's daughters and granddaughters for their lives respectively, and 

' Fine, Hil. 29 Geo. II. 



PEASENHALL. 135 

their issue male as tenants in common. Thomas Staunton died 6th Oct. 
1784, and his will was proved by Mary Peck, an executrix. The grandson 
died an infant 5th April, 1780, in testator's lifetime. In certain Chancery 
proceedings it was declared that cross remainders in tail male were created 
between the testator's daughters and granddaughters, and the heirs of their 
respective bodies. The result was the estates went in fourths. 

Bettenson Staunton in Trinity Term, 1787, suffered a recovery of one 
undivided fourth, and hmited the same to herself in fee. J. C. Bentley and 
Elizabeth Catharine, his wife, in Hilary Term, 1785, did the like. By an Act 
of Parliament in 1791 the estates were vested in Sir George Leonard Staunton, 
Bart., James Lockhart and Charles Douglas in fee upon trust for sale. The 
sale was made by deeds dated the 28th and 29th, Nov. 1792, to John 
Clayton, of Yoxford, in consideration of £19,800. 

John Clayton held his first court 20th Dec. 1793, and died in 1798, 
when the manor passed to his son and heir, John Clayton, who died in 1819. 
We find the manor next in Robert Howlett, who sold it to Robert Sayer. 
The manor and over 562 acres of land sold in August, 1843, for £2,410.' 

In 1855 the manor was vested in J. W. Brooke, and it is now vested 
in Egerton B. B. Levett Scrivener, of Sibton Abbey, Yoxford. 

Court Rolls for the manor, 28th March, 1592, to 17th April, 1593, 
2nd April, 1594, and 2nd March, 1597-8, to loth April, 1599, will be 
found amongst the Additional Charters in the British Museum. "" A rental 
of the manor is given i6th Sept. 33 Hen. VIII. in the Additional MSS. in 
the British Museum." Also in the same place a rental for 1711.* 

Arms of Barker : Per chevron Arg. and Gu. a crescent counter- 
changed. 

JuRDis Manor. 

This in King Edward the Confessor's time was held by Leofsi,a freeman, 
who had 40 acres, later held by Fulchred under Robert Malet. There were 
4 bordars, wood for 10 hogs, i ploughteam, and an acre of meadow, all 
valued at 8s., and the King and the Earl had the soc. One Stanwin, 
a freeman in King Edward's time, also held a carucate as a separate 
manor, which later Fulchred had with the last. He was under commenda- 
tion to Edric, whowas Robert Malet's predecessor in title before he was 
outlawed. It appears he was Harold's man both in the Confessor's lifetime 
and at the time of his death, as the Hundred testified. This testimony 
was not admitted by Stanwin, for he asserted that he was Edric's man by 
Harold's grant at the time of the death of the Confessor, and so confident 
was he of the justice of the assertion that he offered wager of battle. 

On this manor there were 2 bordars, 2 ploughteams, i in demesne, 
and I belonging to the tenants, and an acre of meadow. The wood was 
sufficient for 20 hogs, and there were 2 beasts ; in Saxon times 6 hogs, but 
at the time of the Survey only 12, and at the latter period there were also 
26 sheep. The value in Saxon days was 12s., but in Norman times 22s. 
Harold had the soc and Stanwin had it of him. In the time of the Con- 
queror Stanwin added to the manor 2 freemen under commendation with 
8 acres, valued at i6d., and of this also Stanwin had the soc of Harold.^ 

The manor derived its name from Robert Jurdis or Jurdey, who held 
in the reign of Henry II., and was a nephew of Maynard, who succeeded 

^Ipstoich Journal, 2nd Sept. 1843. *Ib. p. 295. 

^Add. Ch. 10421, 10422, 10423. 5 Dom. ii. 312& 314. 

^Add MSS. 19081, p. 293. 



136 



THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 



Robert Malet. On his death the manor passed to his son and heir, Sir 
Geoffrey Jurdis, who married Sara de Sender, and on his death passed to 
his son and heir, Robert Jurdis, who died without issue, when the manor 
devolved on his sister and heir Sara, married to Wilham de Livermere. 
They gave the manor about 1287 to Sibton Abbey. 

This abbey had held land in Peasenhall from an early date, for we 
find a confirmation of a sale of lands here to the abbey in the early part of 
the reign of Hen. II.', and also late in the 12th century.'' The licence for 
Sibton Abbey to acquire this manor will be found amongst the Harleian 
MSS. in the British Museum.^ On the Patent Rolls in 1277 we find an 
action by the abbot against Nicholas, son of Hamo de Falsham, respecting 
a tenement in Peasenhall.* After the grant of the manor to Sibton Abbey 
all in Peasenhall which seems to have been left to William de Lyvermere 
was a rent.^ 

An extent of lands held at " Jurdiz " in Peasenhall (no doubt meaning 
this manor) by Sibton Abbey 12-ig Edw. II., wiU be found amongst the 
Additional MSS. in the Brit. Mus.« 

The manor was apparently alienated, probably in anticipation of the 
dissolution of the religious houses, to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, but on his 
attainder it passed to the Crown, and was in 1550 granted to Thomas 
Hagard or Hugins. There are amongst the Acts of the Privy Council, 
1549-50, letters to Chancellor, &c., of Augmentations to sell to Thomas 
Hugins the " manor or grange of Furdayes in Peasenhall," which no doubt 
was a mistake for Jurdis.^ Thomas Hugins had licence to alienate in 1550 
the manor to Anthony Rous,* which alienation was carried into effect by a fine 
levied of the manor in 1550.* We find from the State Papers Thomas Rous 
complaining that for his supposed recusancy his estate in Peasenhall is 
sequestered, that it is let for £2>7 a year, and he begs that the whole 
estate may stand charged with a charge made in 1639 to a Mrs. Clare 
Wigmore." 

Manor of Falesham Hall. 

This was one of Robert Malet's manors at the time of the Domesday 
Survey, and we find that in 1286 it was vested in Sir Nicholas de Falesham, 
from whom it most probably derived its name. That he claimed view of 
frankpledge and assize of bread and beer in Peasenhall we learn from the 
Hundred Rolls." No doubt this is the Nicholas, son of Hamo de Falsham, 
against whom the Abbot of Sibton brought an action in the reign of the 
first Edward respecting a tenement in Peasenhall." 

On his death the manor passed to his son and heir, Philip de Falsham, 
who sold it to John de Redenhale and Sir Ralph de Crepping. The former 
seems to have acquired the whole, and he sold the manor in 1313 to the 
Abbot of Sibton. The licence enabling this alienation in mortmain will be 
found on the Patent Rolls for this year, and it enables John de Redenhall, 
clerk (he was really parson of the Church of Shipmeadow), to assure to the 
abbey a messuage, 78 acres of land, 4 acres of meadow, 12J acres of pasture, 



' Campb. xxiii. 5. 

= Harl. 84A. 10. 

3Harl. 83. 

* Pat. RoUs, 5 Edw. I. ltd. 

5 1.P.M., 18 Edw. I. 67. 

6 Add. MSS. 34560. 



lod. 



^Acts of P.C. 1549-50, 382. 

8 See Manor of Henham, in this Hundred. 

spine, Easter, 4 Edw. VI. 

" Cal. of Comp. 1651, 2827. 

" H.R. ii. 147, 197, Q.W. 727. 

" Pat. Rolls, 5 Edw. I. lid. tod. 



PEASENHALL. 137 

24 acres of wood, 13s. iid. of rent, and a rent of a knife and a bow in Peasen- 
halV 

There were two other grants made by this John de Redenhall of land 
in Peasenhall to the Abbey of Sibton. Both were made jointly with 
Benedict de Walpol, chaplain, one being of 2 acres 3 roods of land, and 27^ 
acres of wood." The licence for the abbot to enter on a lay fee will be 
found on the Originalia Rolls. ^ The other was of a messuage and 12 acres 
of land in Peasenhall." 



' Pat. Rolls, 6 Edw. II. pt. i. 12 ; I.Q.D. 6 ^ g e^w. II. 21 ; 6 Edw. II. 15. 

Edw. II. 102. "Pat. Rolls, 2 Edw. II. pt. ii,i8; I.Q.D. 
^ Pat. Rolls, 5 Edw. II. pt. i. 25 ; I.Q.D. 8 Edw. II. 85. 

4 Edw. II. 83. 




138 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 



REYDON. 

\0 manor in this place is mentioned in the Domesday Survey, 
but there were three several holdings of Ralph Baynard, the 
tenant in chief. The first was the holding of Toret, who had 
5 carucates of land in the Confessor's time. There were 14 
villeins, 16 bordars, 2 serfs, 3 ploughteams in demesne, and 
II belonging to the men or tenants, wood sufficient for 
the support of 60 hogs, 5 rouncies, 12 beasts, 40 hogs, no 
sheep, all valued at loos. 

The value by the time of the Survey was -^y. los., but the holding 
had been gradually decreasing in prosperity from Saxon times. The 
Survey shows that at that time there were but 6 villeins and i serf, 2 plough- 
teams in demesne, and but 7 in lieu of 11 belonging to the tenants. It is 
true the bordars had increased from 16 to 20, but there were 2 fewer roun- 
cies, 5 beasts, and only 30 hogs. The only stock which remained stationary 
were the sheep, and in addition were 15 goats. 

The second holding was of 30 freemen, with 2 carucates of land and 5 
acres, and 2 bordars. In the Confessor's time there were 8 ploughteams, 
but these had become reduced by the time of the Survey to 6. The holding 
was valued at ^12. los., and over the freeman Toret's predecessor had com- 
mendation and soc and sac. 

The third holding was that of 2 freemen, by commendation who had 
16J acres and half a ploughteam valued at los. The King and the Earl 
had the soc by way of exchange. The length of Ralph Baynard's holding 
was 6 quarentenes and the breadth a league and 3 perches, and it paid 6 Ji. 
in a gelt. There were also two churches, with a carucate of land valued 
at IDS.' 

Reydon Manor. 

According to Davy this manor was held in the reign of King John 
by Sir Hugh de Cressy who, he states, died about 1205, and was succeeded 
by Hugh de Cressy, who died in 1263, and was succeeded by Stephen de 
Cressy. Hugh de Cressy the 2nd was not however son and heir of Sir 
Hugh, but his grandson, being the son of Roger de Cressy by Isabel his wife, 
one of the two daughters and coheirs of Hubert de Riedon. 

This is clear from an entry on the Close Rolls of 1205, for there we find 
an order to give seisin to Roger de Cressy of land in Reydon, as Hugh de 
Cressy, his father, was seised at the time of his decease,"" and also in the Testa 
de Nevill we find the entry that Roger de Cressy held a knight's fee in Rey- 
don of Walter, son of Robert.^ Hugh de Cressy the 2nd died in 1246, 
leaving two sons, Hugh and Stephen. Hugh died without issue in 1263.'* 

The manor which was then held of the heirs of Sir Walter fitz Robert, 
and from which Lady Isabel de Cressy received £47 yearly in dower, seems 
to have passed to the Muncheasy or Munchensy family in the person of 
Warin de Munchensy, who held it of Robert Fitz Walter as parcel of the 
Barony of Baynard. 

' Dom. ii. 414. 3-p_ (jg N. 290. 

"^ Close Rolls, 7 John, 26, *I.P.M., 47 Hen, III. 28 or File 28 (14). 



REYDON. 



139 



Warm was a man of note in the time of Hen. III., and at the battle 
of Zantoigne against the French obtained the reputation of a good and 
vahant soldier. He died in 1255, and by Joan, daughter of WiUiam Marshall, 
Earl of Pembroke, had issue Wilham, his son and heir, and a daughter 
Joane. William the son was one of the chief commanders of the rebel 
barons at the battle of Lewes, and one of the chiefs of the Parhament by 
them summoned. But being afterwards taken at Kenilworth his lands 
were seized and given to WiUiam de Valence (the King's half-brother) who 
had married Joane, his sister, and who upon his submission freely restored 
them again. WiUiam Munchensy, the brother-in-law of de Valence married 
Dionysia, daughter and heir of Nicholas de Anesty, of Great Braxtead, in 
Essex, and had WiUiam, who died young, and Dionysia, his only daughter 
and heir, married to Hugh de Vere, a younger son of Robert, Earl of 
Oxford. 

A fine of the manor was levied in 1284 by Robert Fitz Walter against 
this William de Valence.' In 1290 William de Valence and Joane his wife 
endeavoured by the Pope's bull to bastardize this Dionysia in hopes of 
enjoying the whole estate, but she was allowed to be legitimate. The Manor 
of Reydon however, seems to have passed to William de Valence, Earl of 
Pembroke, in right of his wife at the beginning of the reign of Edw. I., for 
on the Close Rolls in 1276 we find an action by William Black seeking to 
replevy to William de Valence the latter' s Manor of Reydon, taken into 
the King's hands for his default against Robert, son of Walter.^ The 
Hundred Rolls show that Wilham had manorial rights in Reydon.^ 

William de Valence was slain in the wars in France, 13th June, 1296^ 
and the manor passed like that of Kentwell Hall, Long Melford, in Babergh 
Hundred, to Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. 

On the Close Rolls in 1320 is notice of a suit between John de Claveryng 
and this Aymer de Valence as to the manor, excepting 12 messuages, 66 
acres of land, and 2 acres of meadow in Reydon.'^ The manor is specifically 
mentioned in the inquisition p.m. of the 2nd Earl of Pembroke in 1323 or 
1324,' and on his death his estates became divisible between the issue of the 
only two of his sisters who left surviving issue, namely, Isabel, married in 
1275 to John, Lord Hastings, and Joane, married to John, Lord Comyn, of 
Badenagh. The 3rd sister, Agnes or Anne, married ist Maurice Fitz 
Gerald, next Hugh de Baliol, and 3rdly John de Avennes, but left no issue. 
This manor was taken on the death of Aymer de Valence as part of the 
Hastings share, and went to John, son of John de Hastings and of Isabel, 
sister of Aymer de Valence, who died shortly afterwards, namely, 27th 
Jan. 1324-5, leaving by Julian his wife, daughter and heir of Thomas 
Leybume, a son and heir, Laurence, then an infant of 5 years. There is an 
entry on the Close Rolls this year [1325] to the effect that this manor 
was extended at ^51. i8s. 3|i., and was the property of Laurence de 
Hastings in fee^ and an order was made to deliver the manor to Hugh le 
Despenser, son of Hugh le Despenser, Earl of Winchester, during the 
minority of Laurence.'' 

^ Feet of Fines, 12 Edw. I. 1-12. ^ For the date is uncertain, but his Will is 

^ Close Rolls, 4 Edw. I. 15^. enrolled ist Nov. 1324, at the 

^H.R. ii. 147, 197. Court of Hustings. Extent, LP. M. 

■* Close Rolls, 13 Edw. II. 2 Schedule. 17 Edw. II. 75. 

6 Close Rolls, 18 Edw. II. 6. 

Ub. 



140 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

However, it seems that John de Hastings's widow remarried in 1326 
Thomas le Blunt, and in 1327 the King assigned to him and his wife as 
dower the manor then stated to be of the yearly value of £51. i8s. ^^d.' 
The result of this assignment was that Laurence did not enjoy the inheritance, 
for his mother survived him. She took a third husband in 1329, William 
de Chnton, 6th Lord Qinton, sometime Earl of Huntingdon. 

Laurence de Hastings was by letters patent 12th Oct. 1339, declared 
Earl of Pembroke in consideration of his descent from Isabel, eldest sister 
and coheir of Aymer de Valence, and was present at the victory over the 
French fleet at Pluys, in Flanders. He distinguished himself in the wars 
with France, but died 30th August, 1348,' leaving issue by Agnes his wife, 
3rd daughter of Roger Mortimer, ist Earl of March, by Joan, daughter of 
Peter de Genevill, John, his only son and heir, aged one year at his father's 
death. 

The manor is mentioned in the inquisition p.m. of William de Clynton, 
Earl of Huntingdon, who died 31st Aug. 1354,^ he being, as always stated, 
the 3rd husband of Juliana, widow of John de Hastings. Juliana, then 
Countess of Huntingdon, died ist Nov. 1367,* when the manor passed to her 
grandson, John de Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. 

It is stated in Dugdale that this John in 1369, having obtained the 
King's licence, made a feoffment of all his castles, lordships, manors, &c., 
in England and Wales to certain uses, which feoffment upon his death was 
by the feoffees delivered to the King's council at Westminster to be opened, 
when it was found that in case he died without issue of his body, the town 
and Castle of Pembroke should come to the King, his heirs, and successors, 
and the castle and lordship of Bergavenny and other lands in England 
and Wales to his cousin William de Beauchamp (his mother's sister's son) 
in fee provided he should bear his arms and endeavour to obtain the title 
of Earl of Pembroke, and in default thereof then to his kinsman, William 
de CUnton, upon the same conditions. 

This settlement really seems to have been made 15th April, 1372 — 
the 46th and not the 43rd Edw. III. He was installed a Knight of the 
Garter, and summoned to Parhament 8th Jan. 1370-1. In attempting 
to reheve the siege of Rochelle he was unfortunate, for on his arrival at the 
port 23rd June, 1372, he had no sooner entered the haven than the Spaniards 
surprised his ships, burnt them, and took the Earl and divers other prisoners. 
Treasure to the amount of 20,000 marks, which King Edward had sent over 
to maintain the war in Aquitaine, fell into the hands of the enemy. He 
was kept prisoner at Santander in Spain for three years. His ransom was 
ultimately agreed upon as 120,000 francs, and he was set free, but died on 
his return home at Arras between Paris and Calais, i6th April, 1375, by 
some alleged to have been poisoned.^ 

He was twice married, ist to Lady Margaret Plantagenet, 4th 
daughter of Edw. III., by whom he had no issue, and 2ndly to Anne, 
daughter and eventual heir of Sir WiUiam Manney, Lord Manney, Knight 

'Close Rolls, I Edw. III. pt. i. 24, 15,4; n.FM., 28 Edw. III. 59. 

Originalia Rolls, i Edw. I. 28, where ♦I.P.M., 41 Edw. III. 34. 

the amount is incorrectly stated to = -y^ju g^j^ ^^y^ ^272, and 26th March,i374, 

be £51. i8s. 4d. proved 17th July and 17th Oct. 

"Will 24th Aug. and enrolled nth Nov. 1376. I.P.M., 49 Edw. III. pt. i. 

1349, ^^ the Court of Hustings. 70. 



REYDON. 



141 



of the Garter, and by her left an only son John, aged 2 years and a half, 
having been born about Oct. 1372.' 

There is an order on the Originalia Rolls this year, committing the 
custody of this manor to Margaret, Countess of Norfolk, and Anne, the young 
Earl's mother, until he should come of age." 

At the coronation of Rich. II., being then not five years old, a claim 
was made for the young Earl to carry the great golden spurs, which is the 
first mention of a claim to this office which afterwards appears to have 
been exercised (after claim made and allowed in 1685) by the heir general of 
this family in Henry Yelverton, the then Lord Grey, of Ruthyn. 

The claim of the youthful Earl was allowed, and by reason of his age, 
Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March, whose daughter Phihppa he subsequently 
married, was appointed to act on his behalf. The young Earl was knighted 
by Rich. II. 15th Aug. 1381, when but g years old, and at 13 was Chief 
Commissioner of Array in the County of Suffolk, 26th April, 1385. This 
was probably by reason of his being the Hereditary Steward of Bury St. 
Edmunds, of which place, however, he was not made actual Steward until 
5th May, 1387. 

Though the Earl did not attain the age of 18 he managed to have two 
wives successively.^ The ist, the Lady Elizabeth, 2nd daughter of John 
Plantagenet or of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, from whom he was divorced, 
and 2ndly Lady Philippa Mortimer, 2nd daughter of Edmund, 3rd Earl of 
March. He however left no issue. He seems to have been a venturesome, 
bold young man, for in 1389, when little over 17, the King, keeping his 
Christmas at Woodstock, the Earl entered the lists to tilt with Sir John 
St. John, and by an unlucky slip of Sir John's lance, the Earl was so wounded 
in the stomach that he died, 30th Dec. 1389,* as it is said, "to the grief of 
many ; as being of a noble disposition and in bounty and courtesy exceeded 
by none of his degree." The lordship of Reydon passed on the premature 
death of the 3rd Earl of Pembroke to Reginald, 3rd Lord Grey de Ruthyn, 
who was the grandson of Roger, Lord Grey, and his wife, Elizabeth Hastings, 
daughter of John, 2nd Baron Hastings, as the heir of the whole blood. ^ 

Reginald Lord Grey de Ruthyn* was Lord Justice of Ireland in 1398 
and Privy Councillor to Hen. IV. He is famous for his disputes with Owen 
Glendower concerning the situation of their lands, and the division of the 
lordships of Ruthyn and Glendower, and was by him at length overpowered, 
taken prisoner, and despoiled of his lordship of Ruthyn in 1402, and obliged 



' The author of the " Complete Peerage " 
states in one place that this John 
was about 4 years old at his father's 
death, but in vol. iv. p. 181 cor- 
rectly 2 J years. It is true that 
he prefers the date 1376 to I375 
for the father's death, relying upon 
a note in the " TestamentaVetusta," 
but neither Mr. Cockayne nor 
Nicholas appear to have been 
aware of the inquisition post 
mortem, 49 Edw. III. and it is 
quite clear that the 4gth year of 
Edw. III. closed on 24th Jan. 
1375-6, and if the death were i6th 
April, 1376, the inquisition must 
have been taken before the Earl's 
death. 



"0. 49 Edw. III. 17. 

^The author of the " Complete Peerage " 
states that he died unmarried. 
Vol. iv. p. 180. 

■'I.P.M.,13 Rich. II. 30. 

5 See I.P.M., Reg. de Grey, Rich. Talbot, 
John Lescrop, 15 Rich. II. 179. 

^ He was the son of Reginald de Grey, son 
of Roger, son of John, son of 
Reginald, son of John, son of Henry, 
son of John, son of Anschitel, son 
of Richard, son of Anschitel, son 
of Arnold, son of John, Lord de Grey, 
son of RoUo or Fulbert, Chamber- 
lain to Robert, Duke of Normandy. 



142 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

to pay a sum of 10,000 marks by way of ransom. He seems to have been 
of a contentious nature, for he had a contest also with Sir Edward Hastings 
in the Court of Chivalry touching the title of Lord Hastings, and as to 
bearing the arms of Hastings, which by a final sentence in 141 were 
adjudged to him and his heirs. He served in the wars of Hen. V. in France. 

He married ist Margaret, daughter of William de Roos, Lord Roos, 
and 2ndly Joane, daughter and heir of William de Astley, Lord Astley, and 
widow of Thomas Raleigh, of Farnborough, co. Warwick, and died in 1440-1. 
His eldest son, Sir John Grey, was a Knight of the Garter, and in 1427 Lord 
Lieutenant of Ireland, and remained in that office for two years. He after- 
wards served in the wars in France with great gallantry under the Duke 
of Bedford, and was appointed Governor of Yomins. He was present at the 
battle of Agincourt, and of Vernoul in the following reign. In the last battle 
his father also took part, and they participated in the honour of that signal 
victory. He died 27th August, 1439, in the lifetime of his father. He 
married Constance, daughter and coheir of John Holand, Duke of Exeter, 
and widow of Thomas, son of Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, and on 
his father's death in 1440-1 the manor passed to his grandson Edmund, 
4th Lord Grey of Ruthyn. 

He obtained from Edw. IV. the estate of Ampthill, in the county of 
Bedford, and other lands which had belonged to the Lord Fanhope, and 
was in 1463 made Lord Treasurer of England. On 30th May, 1465, he 
was created Earl of Kent, with limitations to his heirs male, and the dignity 
was confirmed by King Rich. III. He was Bearer of the second sword at 
the Coronation of Rich. III., and a Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer in 
London and cos. Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Oxford, Berks, Essex, 
and Herts in 1483.' 

He married Katharine, elder daughter of Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of 
Northumberland, and dying in 1489 the Manor of Reydon passed to his 
2nd but eldest surviving son George, 5th Baron Grey de Ruthyn and 2nd 
Earl of Kent. He commanded under Jasper, Duke of Bedford, in the army 
sent by Hen. VII. in 1492 to the assistance of Maximilian the Emperor 
against the French, when the return was somewhat ignoble. He was also 
one of the chief leaders in the defeat of the Earl of Lincoln and his adherents 
at the battle of Stoke, and bore a prominent part in the victory over the 
rebellious Cornishmen at Blackheath in 1497. 

He died 21st Dec. 1503, having been twice married. His ist wife 
was Ann, 3rd daughter of Richard Widville, ist Earl of Rivers, and widow 
of William, Viscount Bourchier, and his 2nd wife Katharine, 3rd daughter 
of William Herbert, ist Earl of Pembroke. 

By his ist wife he had a son Richard, 3rd Earl of Kent, installed by 
Hen. VII. a Knight of the Garter, 22nd April, 1505. The 3rd Earl attended 
Hen. VIII. at the siege of Thironenne, and was present at the Field of the 
Cloth of Gold, June, 1520. 

Deeds relating to this manor and belonging to this Richard, Earl of 
Kent, are mentioned in the State Papers for 1525.^ 

He married ist Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Hussey, Knt., 
Lord Chief Justice of England, sister of John, ist Lord Hussey de Sleford -, 
and 2ndly, Margaret, daughter of James Finche, of London, and widow of 
John Dawes, and died without issue 3rd May, 1524. He is said to have 
much wasted his estate by gambling, and to have died in poverty at the 

'Ash. MSS. 863 f. 439. "S.P. 17 Hen. VIII. 1309. 



REYDON. 143 

sign of the George, Lombard Street, in the city of London, being buried 
at the Whitefriars in Fleet Street. That he wasted his inheritance is quite 
probable, for the Manor of Reydon was sold, and passed into the possession 
of Charles Somerset, Earl of Worcester, before 1519, as it is included in the 
inquisition p.m. of this Earl. 

Charles Somerset was a natural son of Henry Beaufort, ist Earl of 
Worcester, 3rd Duke of Somerset. He was cupbearerto Hen. VH., and Knight 
of the Body to that monarch, a Knight of the Garter 1496, Knight Banneret 
1497, Privy Councillor, Chief Ambassador to France, Aug. 1505, Earl of 
Worcester, ist Feb. 1514, Judge of the Lists in the " Field of the Cloth of 
Gold," June 20th and 24th, 1520, and Chancellor of the Order of the Garter 
in 1523. 

He married ist Lady Elizabeth Herbert, daughter and heir of William, 
Earl of Huntingdon, 2ndly Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas, 8th Lord de la 
Warr, and 3rdly Eleanor Sutton, daughter of Edward, 5tli Lord Dudley. 
By his will, dated 21st March, 1524, he ordered his body to be buried in the 
CoUegiate Church of Windsor by the side of his ist wife in the Chapel of 
our Lady, but if he died so far off that his body could not be carried to 
Windsor in four days, then he directed it to be buried in the nearest abbey 
or priory. He gave to his wife Eleanor 600 marks in plate, and all his 
jewels, chains, &c. To his son Henry his harness and artUlery. His 
goods to be divided into three parts, one part for his son Henry, another 
for his son George, and the third part for his wife Eleanor. His manors 
at Badmonsfeld and Reydon he gave to his wife for hfe, with remainder to 
the children and heirs of him and her. He died 15th AprU, 1526,' and 
the manor passed to Eleanor his widow for life, and subject to such interest 
vested in his second son by his second wife. Sir George Somerset, and from 
himin 1560 passed to his son and heir, Charles Somerset. The manor was then 
acquired by Francis Rous, and we find that by a deed dated 9th Aug. 1562, he 
granted it to Michael and Robert Hare, to the use of Anne Rous, his wife, for 
her jointure, with remainder to his right heirs. Francis died in 1571, when 
the manor passed to his widow Ann for life, and on her death vested in her 
son Thomas Rous, who died seised in 1603, when it passed to his son and 
heir. Sir John Rous, who dying in 1652, it went to his son and heir, Sir John 
Rous, created a Baronet in 1660, from whom it has descended in the same 
course as the Manor of Henham, in this Hundred, to the present Earl of 
Stradbroke. Court Rolls of the manor for the 29, 35 to 38, 40 to 42, 44 
and 46 Edw. IIL, i to 4, 13, 19, 21, and 22 Rich. IL, and 4 to 6 Hen. IV. 
will be found in the Public Record Office.^ 

Amongst the Chancery Proceedings of the time of Elizabeth will be found 
a claim by Judith Cryspe against Robert Fryer as to a bond tenement 
called Thornes, held of the Manor of Reydon, and divers bond lands in 
Reydon and Wangford, then late the estate of John Fryer deceased, 
plaintiff's cousin.^ 

Arms of Valence : Barruly Argent and Azure, an orle of martlets 
Gules. Of Hastings : Or, a Maunch Gules. 

Manors of Reydon Blevilis, Reydon Wingfields, and of 

Reydon Ugghall. 
The first of these manors we do not find mention of until the time of 
Queen Mary, when it was vested in Sir George Somerset, and acquired from 

'I.P.M. 18 Hen. VIII. 44. ^cp. i. 166. 

^Portfolio 203, 105. 



144 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

him by Thomas Rous/ vesting in the following reign in Francis Rous. The 
second we do not meet with until 1807, when it was vested in John^ Lord 
Rous, 1st Earl of Stradbroke. 

There is certainly an action amongst the Chancery Proceedings of 
the time of Elizabeth by William Keble and others against Thomas Grange 
to redeem a copyhold messuage and land part held of the Manor of " Raydon 
in Raydon," and other part of the Manor of Wyngfield, in Wangford, mort- 
gaged to defendant by Thomas Holbeck deceased.^ The third manor is not 
mentioned until the time of Sir John Rous, the 5th Bart., who died in 1771, 
but they have all since the periods respectively mentioned passed in the same 
line of descent as the main manor. 



'Fine, Trin. 2 and 3 Mary I. "C.P. ii. iii. 




RUMBURGH. 145 

RUM BURGH MANOR. 

jO manor is mentioned here in the Domesday Survey. The 
parish was at that time included in Wissett, and was then 
held by Alan, Earl of Brittany and Richmond. 

It no doubt shortly after the Conquest was included 
in the lands given to Ralph Guader (de Waer or Wayer), 
Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk, who forfeited his earldom 
for treachery to the Conqueror, whom he attempted to 
depose, being joined in his design by Walthorp, the great Earl of Northum- 
berland, Roger de Britolis, Earl of Hereford, whose sister he had espoused, 
and others of distinction. He took the opportunity on his wedding day, 
and when it is said they were heated with wine, to disclose to the con- 
spirators his plans. When the convivial party had recovered from their 
intemperance, a good number repented, and refused to join the rising, which 
was quickly suppressed by Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, and Geoffrey, Bishop of 
Worcester. The Earl of Norfolk deserted his followers, and fled into 
Brittany, leaving them to their fate. The Castle of Norwich was sub- 
sequently besieged, and his Countess obliged to surrender, but she was 
suffered to go beyond the sea. The Earl ultimately assumed the Cross, 
and joined the expedition under Robert Curthose to Jerusalem against the 
Turks, where it is said, " he afterwards became a pilgrim, and died a great 
penitent." 

He left issue two sons, Ralph and Alan, and a daughter Amicia, married 
to Robert, Earl of Leicester, son of Robert, Earl of Mellent, but the property 
at Rumburgh was confiscated and granted to Alan, Earl of Brittany and 
Richmond, surnamed Rufus of Ferganut, by reason of his red hair. He 
was the grandson of Geoffrey, Duke of Bretagne, and commanded the rear 
of the army at the Battle of Hastings, being Joint Commander of the Second 
Division of the Norman Army. 

He married Constance, daughter of King William the Conqueror, but 
died without issue in 1089, and was succeeded by her brother Alan Niger, 
2nd Earl of Richmond and Earl of Brittany. Alan Niger died in 1093, 
without issue, and was succeeded by his brother Stephen, 3rd Earl of 
Richmond and Earl of Brittany. 

He married Havise, Countess of Guincamp, and dying the 13th April, 
1 137, was succeeded by his eldest son, Alan, surnamed the Savage, 4th 
Earl of Richmond and Earl of Brittany, who took an active part in the 
contest between King Stephen and the Empress Maud on the side of the 
former. In 1142 he took the Castle of Lincoln with considerable treasure 
from Ranulph, Earl of Chester, by scaling the walls at night. He also 
garrisoned the Castle of Hotun in Yorkshire, then part of the Bishop 
of Durham's possessions, and made great spoil at Ripon upon the demesnes 
and tenants of the Archbishop of York. 

He founded Jorvaulx Abbey, Richmondshire, and the Abbey of Coet- 
maloen, Quimper, Bretagne, probably to atone for his wickedness, for he is 
described as a most deceitful, wicked individual. He married Bertha, 
daughter of Conan III., " the fat " Duke of Bretagne, and dying 30th 
March, 1146, was succeeded by his eldest son, Conan le Petit, 5th Earl of 
Richmond, also styled Duke and Count of Bretagne. 

He was patron of St. Mary's Abbey, York, and founder of Rownay 
Nunnery, co. Hertford. He married Margaret, daughter of Henry, Earl 
of Huntingdon, and sister of Malcolm IV., King of Scotland, by whom he had 
an only daughter, Constance, who married Geoffrey Plantagenet, 4th son 



146 



THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 



of Hen. H., and was mother of the unfortunate Arthur, said to have been 
put to death by his uncle, afterwards King John. 

Constance died 4th Sept. 1201, but the lordship of Rumburgh, accord- 
ing to the Davy MSS., passed about this time to the family of de VaUibus 
or de Vaux. Certainly in 1286 Sir John de Vallibus had view of frankpledge 
here, but there seems no evidence that he held this particular lordship. 
The probability is that he held the advowson only, and that this holding 
has been confounded with the manor. Sir John de Vallibus's daughter, 
Petronilla, wife of Sir Wilham de Nerford, held the advowson in 1316, and 
it was vested in 1364 in John de Nerford, the son of Thos. de Nerford, and 
probably grandson of the above Petronilla.' He died in 1364, and his in- 
quisition p.m. shows that he held the advowson of the Priory Church of 
Rumburgh and the Manor of Wysete, with the appurtenances of the King 
in capite by knight's service.'' The probability is that the Manor of Rum- 
burgh was included in the grant towards the foundation of Rumburgh 
Cell and Priory made by Alan, the 4th Earl of Richmond, who died in 1146. 
Though it may be questionable when the lordship passed to the priory 
there can be no doubt it was held by the priory until 1528, when it was one 
of the small priories suppressed before the general dissolution, and was 
granted by the King, 30th Dec. 20 Hen. VHI. to Cardinal Wolsey for his 
college at Ipswich. Inquisitions upon lands of the suppressed monastery 
at Rumburgh will be found amongst the State Papers, 19 Hen. VIII. ^ 

Cardinal Wolsey, by a conveyance in 1529, granted the manor to St. 
Mary's College, Ipswich."^ On the disgrace of Wolsey, the grant was resumed, 
and the manor went to the Crown. It seems to have been granted to Robert 
Downes, who had licence' in 1530 to alienate the same to Thomas, Duke of 
Norfolk,® who forfeited it on his attainder in 1546, and the following year 
the lordship was granted to John, Earl of Warwick, who had licence the 
same year to alienate to Sir Edward North. The manor is included in the 
inquisition p.m. of Lionel Talmash, who died 25th June, 1552, leaving Lionel 
his son and heir.^ 

Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, was restored in 1553, when the lordship 
again vested in him, and passed on his death i8th July, 1554, to his grand- 
son, Thomas, 4th Duke of Norfolk, who was beheaded in 1572, for his 
communication with Mary, Queen of Scots. His son PhiHp, Earl of Arundel, 
however, seems to have succeeded to the lordship, for in 1585 he had licence 
to alienate the manor to John Holland and others. The sale was carried 
into effect the same year." Amongst the Suffolk Charters in the Bodleian 
is an assignment 11 Eliz. by the Duke of Norfolk to John " HoUande " of 
the remainder of a lease granted by one Chandler of the manor and church, 
and an additional 21 years.^ John Holland had licence to ahenate the 
manor in 1611 to Paul Bayning, sen., one of the Sheriffs of London in the 
time of Eliz., who died in 1616, and was succeeded by his son and heir, 
Sir Paul Bayning, created Baronet 24th Sept. 1612, elevated to the peerage 
27th Feb. 1627, as Baron Bayning, of Horkesley-Bentley, in the county of 
Essex, and advanced to the rank of Viscount Bayning, of Sudbury, in the 



'I.P.M., 38 Edw. III. 31. 
"I.P.M., 38 Edw. III. 31. 
n.P.M., 19 Hen. VIII. 3537. 
"S.P. 20 Hen. VIII. 5280. 
5S.P. 22 Hen. VIII. 220. 



''There is an account of Rumburgh Manor, 
sold and purchased by the Duke of 
Norfolk, in the State Papers, 1538, 
ii. 1215 (2). 

^I.P.M., 7 Edw. VI. 64. 

^Fine, Hil. 27 Eliz. 

sBodl. Suff. Ch. 1205. 



RUMBURGH. 147 

county of Suffolk, on the 8th March in the same year. He married Anne, 
daughter of Sir Henry Glemham, of Glemham, and dying at his house in 
Mark Lane, in the City of London, 29th July, 1629, was succeeded by his 
son and heir, Paul Bayning, 2nd Viscount, who married Penelope, only 
daughter and heir of Sir Robert Naunton, Knt., master of the Court of 
Wards and Liveries. 

He died nth June, 1638, leaving two daughters only, Anne married to 
Aubrey de Vere, Earl of Oxford, and Penelope, married to the Hon. John 
Herbert, youngest son of Philip, 4th Earl of Pembroke, ist Earl of Mont- 
gomery. 

The manor appears to have been taken by the elder daughter and her 
husband, the Earl of Oxford. It does not appear who became lord of 
the manor later, but the Court Rolls show that William Peck held a court 
on the 22nd Feb. 1722, and Richard Gipps held his first court 27th Nov. 
1728, and his last court 5th May, 1731. 

In 1731 the manor was held by Wilham Cobbold, a wealthy Quaker, of 
Brandon, who purchased from Richard Gibbs, and held his ist court 12th 
March, 1731, and other courts loth Nov. 1732 and 14th Sept. 1739. 

William Cobbold held his last court 21st Nov. 1746, and his will is 
dated the 29th April same year. Under it the manor passed to Samuel 
Jessup the elder, a Quaker, of Leiston Abbey (who held his first court i6th 
May, 1747), for life, with remainder to his son, Samuel Jessup the younger, 
and his (Samuel the elder's) daughter Sarah in fee. On the death of Samuel 
Jessup the elder the manor passed to his son and heir, Samuel Jessup the 
younger, and then to his sister Sarah Jessup, and after her to her brother 
Daniel Jessup, who held courts ist Feb. 1787, 5th March, 1787, 17th Dec. 
1790, and died in 1813. Sarah Jessup held her first court 29th Nov. 1813, 
and her last court 28th Nov. 1827. The 28th May, 1828, Phillis Weebing, 
widow, John Manby, and John Grimsey held the lordship, and had their 
first court 28th May that year and their last court 5 th Aug. 1841, since 
which date all proceedings relating to properties in the manor have been 
out of court. In 1830 on the 17th June, the manor was offered for sale at the 
Great White Horse, Ipswich. The fines and quit rents were then stated 
to be annually £40 or thereabouts. With it was offered the capital farm 
called Rumburgh Abbey Farm, being in Rumburgh and All Saints, com- 
prising 348a. 2r. i6p., of which about 115a. were old pasture. The whole 
was stated to be free from great and small tithes, and held under a lease 
at the rent of £510 per annum.' The property evidently did not sell, for in 
1855 the manor was vested in the executors of Mrs. Weebing, and in 1877 
it was sold to Charles Henry Capon, whose mortgagees sold it in 1887 to 
Joseph Beaumont, on whose death in 1889 it vested in George Frederick 
Beaumont, of the Lawn, Coggeshall, Essex. 



' Morning Herald, 25th May, 1830. 




148 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

SIBTON. 

|HERE were six manors in this place at the time of the 
Norman Conquest, one of which was held at the time of 
the Survey by Earl Alan and the other five by Robert 
Malet. Alan's manor was held by a freeman named Alwin, 
who had a carucate of land and 20 acres, with 6 acres of 
meadow. There were 4 villeins, 16 bordars, and 2 serfs. 
In Saxon times and later there was one ploughteam 
in demesne, but at the time of the Survey there were two. The number of 
the ploughteams belonging to the tenants remained stationary at two, and 
there was sufficient wood for the support of 60 hogs. The value had not 
varied, being fixed at 40s. The stock consisted of i rouncy in demesne, 
8 beasts, and 5 hives of bees. In Saxon times there were 2 sheep and i 
hog, but at the time of the Survey there were 30 sheep and 30 hogs. May- 
nard then held the manor under Earl Alan, and the King and the Earl had 
the soc' 

Robert Malet's manors were not large. One was held by a freeman 
with 1 carucate and 20 acres of land, and 4 acres of meadow, having 4 villeins, 
10 bordars, 2 ploughteams in demesne, and 2 belonging to the tenants. 

There was sufficient wood for the maintenance of 60 hogs, and there 
were 2 rouncies, 7 beasts, and in Saxon times 30 hogs and 50 goats, but by 
the time of the Survey the hogs were reduced by 4, and 50 sheep were 
substituted for the 50 goats. 

The value had increased from 20s. to 40s. This manor was held in 
Domesday times by Walter de Caen of Robert Malet. This Walter held 
the other manors here of Malet. One of these had been held in the Con- 
fessor's day by a freeman with 25 acres of land and i of meadow, having 

1 bordar and half a ploughteam in demesne, all of the value of 4s. And 
there was also a church belonging to this manor. Another of these manors 
was held in the Confessor's time by a freeman with 25 acres of land and i 
acre of meadow. To the manor belonged 3 bordars, half a ploughteam, i 
rouncy, and in Saxon times 6 hogs also, but at the time of the Survey 
none. The value of this manor was 4s. 

A third of Malet's manors here had been held in King Edward's 
time by Aluric, with 60 acres, and i acre of meadow. There were 

2 bordars, 2 ploughteams in demesne, i rouncy (which had dis- 
appeared by the time of the Great Survey), 73 sheep, and 6 goats. The 
value had varied from los. to 16s. In the township and holding 
of Malet were also two tenancies, one of Edric, holding 16 acres, i bordar, 
wood for 12 hogs, and 2 acres of meadow, valued at 3s., and the other of 
three freemen and a half freeman, holding 72 acres and i acre of meadow, 
having i bordar and i ploughteam in demesne, of the value of los. The 
Survey adds, probably referring to the whole township, " It is a league 
and a half long and a league broad, and renders in a gelt y^d. Two 
churches with 18 acres and 3 acres of meadow."^ 

The remaining manor was that held in the Confessor's time by Black- 
man, a freeman, with 50 acres, and an acre ol meadow. There were two 
bordars, i ploughteam in demesne, i rouncy, and 16 sheep, valued at los. 
Blackman was Edric's man and under his commendation, and the Kmg 
had the soc. 

'Dom, ii, 292&. *Dom. ii. 3126. 



SIBTON. 149 

The Survey notes that the wife of Blackman was Bishop Stigand's 
man (sic), and he (the Bishop) had commendation over the woman. Also 
it states that WiUiam Malet held this land. The only holding remaining 
unmentioned in Sibton was also part of the holding in chief of Robert Malet, 
and consisted of 2 freemen having 32 acres of land and half an acre of meadow, 
I bordar, and i ploughteam in demesne, of the value of 4s. This was held 
by Walter de Caen of Robert Malet at the time of the Survey.' 

Manor of Sibton with its Members. 

The Manor of Sibton was a different manor from that of Sibton Hall. 
The former was mainly composed of the Domesday manors of Robert 
Malet in the holding of Walter de Caen. 

This Walter is said to have been a brother of William de Malet, a Nor- 
man Baron and progenitor of the ancient and illustrious house of Peyton, 
his second son, Reginald de Peyton, being the personage who first assumed 
the name. 

This Walter de Caen, Cadomo or Caniseto, was enfeoffed of the Barony 
of Horsford, in Norfolk, to be held of the Honor of Eye, where he built a 
castle and had a large park and chase surrounding it, in ancient deeds termed 
the " Forest of Horseford." 

In the time of WilUam H. the manor passed to Walter's son, Robert, 
who married Sybilla, daughter and heir of Ralph de Cheyney, and is often 
called Robert Fitz Walter, by whom he had issue three sons, who assumed 
the name of De Cheyney. The Church of Sibton was built by this Robert 
in the time of William Rufus, but the north aisle was built by the executors 
of Robert Ducket, whose will is dated 24th Jan. 1533. 

This was the old church, for the present church is comparatively a 
modem structure. The manor on the death of Robert passed to his son 
and heir, John Fitz Robert, called the Sheriff, and from him passed about 
1149 to his brother, William de Canisto or Cheney, Baron of Horsford, who 
founded the Abbey of Sibton and endowed it with this manor. He is 
sometimes called William de Norwich. He gave Friers manor, in Shelf hanger, 
in Norfolk, formerly the possession of Edric the falconer, his great-grand- 
father, with which Robert, Lord Malet, enfeoffed his brother Walter de 
Cadomo. At that period this lordship was very small, but after became 
augmented by divers other grants. 

The revenues of the monastery received considerable additions from 
the pious contributions of the Lady Margaret de Cressy, one of the daughters 
and coheirs of the founders, and various other benefactors, all of which 
donations were confirmed by charters of Hen. H. and Hen. IIL Clementia 
and Sara, the other daughters and coheirs of William de Cheyney were also 
benefactors to this house ; the former married Jordan de Sackville and 
the latter Richard de Engaine. 

The Abbot of Sibton claimed view of frankpledge, bortrem, and assize 
of bread and beer here in the time of Edw. I.'' And a Book of Extents and 
Accounts of the Abbey, 18 Edw. II. to 46 Edw. III., is mentioned in the 
loth Report of the Historical MSS. Commission, part v. 458. 

In 1536, two years prior to the Act for dissolving the greater monasteries, 
the abbot and convent by deed dated 31st July, 1536, conveyed to Thomas, 
Duke of Norfolk, Anthony Rouse, and Nicholas Hare the site and all the 

'Dom. ii. 313. 'H.R. 147, 197; Q.W. 727. 



150 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

estates belonging to this monastery, which grant was confirmed to the Duke 
by Statute of the 31st Hen. VHI. 

The annual revenues of the abbey were then valued at £250. 15s. y^d. 
per annum. Sibton Abbey was granted at the Dissolution to Thomas 
Godsalve by Thomas, Duke of Norfolk. His son, Sir Thomas Godsalve, 
died seised of it in the time of Philip and Mary. He was a person of some 
note, and at the coronation of Edw. VL was created a Knight of the Carpet, 
and afterwards appointed Comptroller of the Mint. 

On the attainder of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, the manor passed to the 
Crown, and the King held a first court for it in 1547. The same year however 
Hen. VHI. granted the lordship to Sir Anthony Denny, Knt. Subsequently 
it was restored to the Duke, for though it is true the manor is mentioned 
in the inquisition p.m.of Sir Anthony Denny, who died 5th Sept. 1549, leaving 
Henry his son and heir,' yet we find Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, holding a 
court for the manor in 1553, said to be the first court after his imprison- 
ment, and another court was held in 1569 by Sir Thomas Cornwallis, Knt., 
Sir Nicholas Le Straunge, and other feoffees of the said Thomas, Duke of 
Norfolk, and stated to be their first court. 

In 1572 we learn from a court held by the trustees that year that an 
assurance had been made of the manor to John Blennerhasset, William Dixe, 
and others by the then late Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, and in trust for 
Philip, Earl of Surrey, and Thomas and William, sons of the said Duke. 
Thomas, Earl of Arundel and Surrey (being joined in the sale by Lord William 
Howard, of Naworth [Belted Will]) 30th Nov. iGio"" sold the manor for 
£9>75^ to John Scrivener, who built a commodious house adjoining the 
ruins of the abbey, and resided here in 1655. He was the 6th son of Ralph 
Scrivener, of Bildeston, Port Reeve of Ipswich, and barrister-at-law, 
to whom arms were granted 29th Jan. 1576.^ 

John Scrivener by deed loth Dec. 1641, settled the manor on the 
marriage of his son and heir apparent, Thomas, with Elizabeth, only child 
and heir of William Grudgefield, of Fressingfield, on the said Thomas and 
Elizabeth and the longer liver of them, with remainder to their heirs male.'* 
John Scrivener died in 1662, when the manor passed to his son, Thomas 
Scrivener, who was living at the Herald's Visitation of Suffolk, 1664. He was 
a great sufferer in the royal cause, his estate having been sequestered, and 
he himself confined in various prisons in the county. He died in 1667, and 
was buried at Sibton, when the manor passed to his son and heir John. 

By deed dated 17th March, 1719, this John Scrivener and Dorothea 
Scrivener, his sister, settled an estate in Sibton and Peasenhall to the 
following uses, viz., that one-half of the rents should be paid to the vicar 
of this parish to read morning service in the church every Wednesday, 
Friday, and holy days in the year, and that the other moiety should be em- 
ployed for erecting a schoolroom in the parish of Sibton for teaching poor 
children, whose parents dwelt within the same, and were not able to bear 
the charge thereof, in the English tongue, writing and arithmetic, and in the 
principles of the Church of England, and for putting out apprentices. 

' I.P.M., 4 Edw. VI. 105. WiUiam Smith, of Bulmer, and 

''Add. MSS. 19082, p. 13. Nicholas was the son of John 

3 This Ralph married twice : ist Joan Cole, Scrivener, of Bildeston. 

and 2nd Mary, of Heveningham. ''Fine, Easter, lo Chas. II. (recovery 

Ralph was the only son of Nicholas suffered). 

and Margery his wife, daughter of 



SIBTON. 151 

The property comprises a building used as a schoolroom and 32a. or. 
3p. of land, which formerly let at ;^55 a year, one-half of the rent being paid 
to the vicar and the other half applied for the support of a school. John 
Scrivener died in 1720, and the manor passed to his brother, Charles 
Scrivener, LL.B., born 25th April, 1660, who married Anne, daughter of 
Thomas Wharton, and died 8th August, 1737, when the manor became 
vested in his son and heir, Charles Scrivener, who married Margaret, 
daughter of Francis Bedingfield, of Bedingfield, and died without issue 
in 1751. 

His sister and heir, Anne Scrivener, married the Rev. Thomas Freston, 
LL.B., vicar of Cratfield,6th son of Richard Freston, of Mendham, and dying 
7th Nov. 1764, left a daughter Ann, married to Edward Howman, and a 
son, John Freston, to whom, on the death of Charles Scrivener in 175 1, 
the manor passed. 

John Freston, of Sibton Abbey, took the name and arms of Scrivener.' 
He married Dorothea, daughter of Roger Howman, M.D., of Norwich'' and 
died in 1797, aged 67, leaving an only surviving daughter and heir Dorothea, 
to whom the manor passed. 

She married John Fisher, D.D., Bishop of Exeter, and afterwards of 
Salisbury, Preceptor to Princess Charlotte of Wales (eldest son of the Rev. 
John Fisher, M.A., Rector of Calborne), and by him (who died in 1825) 
left at her death 5th Sept. 1831, a son Edward, who died unmarried in 1836, 
and two daughters, Dorothea, married 9th April, 1839, 'to John Frederick 
Pike, who assumed the additional surname of Scrivener, and Elizabeth, 
married to John Mirehause, of Brownslade, co. Pembroke. The manor 
passed to the elder daughter, Dorothea, who surviving her husband died in 
March, 1889, when it passed to her great-nephew, Egerton Bagot Byrd 
Levett-Scrivener, R.N., 3rd son of Col. Richard Byrd Levett, of Milford 
Hall, CO. Stafford (who died in 1888) by Elizabeth Mary Levett, his wife, 
daughter of John Mirehouse and Elizabeth his wife. 

Egerton B.B. Levett-Scrivener, the present lord, assumed the additional 
surname of Scrivener by Deed-PoU in 1889, under the will of his great- aunt, 
and married ist in March, 1884, Mabel Desborough, 2nd daughter of Sir 
Harry Smith Parkes, K.C.B., G.C.M.G., and by her who died in 1890 had 
issue Evelyn Harry Byrd Levett-Scrivener, born Jan. 1885. Mr. E. B. B. 
Levett-Scrivener married 2ndly in Sept. 1891, Mary Milicent, only daughter 
of Henry John Mirehouse of St. George's Hill, co. Somerset. 

Arms of Scrivener : Erm. on a chief indented Az. three leopards' 
faces, Or. , , 

Manor of Sibton Hall. 

This was held by Alwin in the time of the Confessor, and by Alan, Earl 
of Brittany, at the time of the Domesday Survey. We do not find any 
information respecting this manor till the end of the 15th century, when in 
1499 Thomas Heveningham died seised of it, being succeeded by his son and 
heir. Sir John Heveningham, who died 5th Aug. 1536.^ Sir Anthony 
Heveningham, Sir John's son and heir, next held the lordship. He married 
ist Katherine, daughter of Calthorp, who died before 1546. 

'He is so termed in the Home Office Dorothea his wife, and Dorothea 

Papers in 1774, pp. 745-827, 5 Scrivener, spinster, defendants. 

Geo. III. a Fine was levied by 'She died in 1794. 

Edward Howman and Charles Purvis ^I.P.M., 28 Hen. VHI. 54. 
against John Freston Scrivener, 



152 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

In 1546 he settled the manor by fine on himself and Mary his 2nd wife 
daughter of Sir John Shelton, the elder, of Shelton, Knt., and on their 
heirs/ and died in 1558, and according to his will is buried by his last wife 
under a tomb on the north side of the chancel of Heveningham,but the tomb 
has lost its inscription, though the arms of Heveningham with helmet 
crest and supporters, and those of Shelton with a helmet and crest and two 
talbots, Arg. collared and chained Gu. for supporters, and the same two 
coats impaled, remained in Blomefield's day. 

He was lord of Gissing-cum-Dagworth, in Norfolk, and settled 3 acres 
of land upon the churchwardens towards the maintenance of the poor, and 
ordered that Bartholomew Kempe and his heirs should pay 3s. a year to 
the same use out of his estate. 

By his first wife he left one son only, Henry, married ist to Anne, 
daughter of Sir Edmund Wyndham, Knt., and 2ndly to Anne, daughter of 
Eden of Sudbury, but leaving no issue the Manors of Gissing with Dag- 
worth, and the Manor of Gissing Hall, in Roydon, which was held of the 
Queen as of the Honor of Eye, at a quarter of a fee, descended divisible 
between his three sisters — Mary, then married to John Smith, Anne to 
Edward Everard, and Jane, married to Edward Suliard, who bought in all 
the parts and then sold them to Sir Arthur Heveningham, who died in 
1630. From this time to the present, the manor has devolved in the same 
course as the Manor of Heveningham, and is now vested in Lord Hunting- 
field. 

Collections touching the family of Heveningham and this manor, and 
evidences and deeds of WiUiam Heveningham, of Hocwold, co. Norfolk, 
in 1637, will be found amongst the Harleian MSS. in the Brit. Mus.^ A 
rental of this manor, 29th Sept. 1682, will also be found in the Brit. Mus.^ 



'Fine, Mich. 38 Hen. VIII. ^Add. MSS. IQ082, p. 15. 

*Harl. 639. 




SOTHERTON. 153 

SOTHERTON MANOR. 

I HIS was held in the Confessor's day by Rada, a freeman 
under Harold, and consisted of 2 carucates of land, 2 acres 
of meadow, and wood sufficient for the sustenance of 100 
hogs. He had soc and sac, and to the manor Humfrey de 
Saint B'tin added a freeman with 12 acres, over which 
his predecessor had commendation. This freeman had i 
bordar and half a ploughteam valued at 2s. The original 
manor had at that time 16 bordars, 2 serfs, i ploughteam in demesne, and 
3 belonging to the tenants. There was also a church with 5 acres. 

The stock consisted of one rouncy, 12 hogs, and 25 sheep, but by the 
time of the Survey the bordars had increased to ig and the ploughteams 
in demesne to 2, and in addition there were a beast and 12 more hogs. 

The value had remained the same, being 40s., and it paid in a gelt ifi. 
The size was a league long and half a league broad. The manor was in 
Domesday time held by Franc under Drogo de Beureria as tenant in chief.' 

There seem to have been two manors here in later days, one of which 
belonged to William de Kerdiston, and the other, which had the advowson 
attached to Walter de Bernham. This later was held by the great Sir 
Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, one of the most eminent noblemen of his 
time ; indeed, as a subject he was regarded as the greatest in Europe during 
the reigns of King John and Hen. IH.^ In 1226 he had a grant from the 
King of a market in his manor here,^ and on the Close Rolls three years 
later will be found an order as to his market in both this and Westhall 
Manor." 

By Joane, daughter of William de Vernon, Earl of Devon, and widow 
of William de Brewer, with whom he acquired the whole Isle of Wight, his 
ist wife, he had no issue. His 2nd wife was Beatrix, daughter of William 
de Warren, of Wormegay, in Norfolk, and widow of Dodo de Bardolf . His 3rd 
wife, Isabell, daughter and coheir of William, Earl of Gloucestei, and 
widow of Geoffrey de Mandeville ; and his 4th wife, Margaret, daughter of 
William the Lion, King of Scotland. He died 4th March, 1243, and the 
manor passed to his son, Sir John, who married Hawyse, daughter and heir 
of WiUiam de Lanvalay, and on his decease, the date of which seems to be 
uncertain, though he was present at the Battles of Lewes and Evesham, 
the manor passed to his son and heir, John de Burgh, who dying in 1280 
the manor seems to have passed to his eldest daughter, Hawyse, married to 
Robert de Greilly or Greslei. It then seems to have gone on the death of 
Robert in 1283 to their son Walter, probably a younger son, who sold the 
same to Walter de Bernham. 

This Walter de Bernham claimed in the time of Edw. I. view of frank- 
pledge and assize of bread and beer here, and on his right being questioned 
called to warrant Walter, son of Walter (? Robert) and Hawyse de Greilly, 
heir of John de Burgh, son of Hubert de Burgh.^ On the Pat. Rolls in 1277 
is notice of an action by Walter, son of Thomas de Bernham, against John, 
son of John de Burgh, touching possessions in Sotherton, and possibly this 
may have referred to the manor which had been sold. 

'Dom. ii. 432. 3Qia,rt. Rolls, 10 Hen. III. 20, 13. 

^ See account of him under Nayland Manor, ■• Close Rolls, 13 Hen. HI. 7. 
in Babergh Hundred. = Q. W. 722. 

U 



154 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

In 1322 we meet with a fine of the manor levied by Walter de Bernham 
against WiUiam, son of Geffrey Lene, of Westhale. The fine also included 
the advowson of the church.' 

There is a grant or rather quit claim of the manor and church in 1381 
in the Brit. Mus.^ It is dated 5th May, and Roger, son of Edmund de 
Soterlee quits claim to Sir William Elmham, Knt., and Richard Dantres 
the manor and advowson of " Seutherton in coun. Suff." 

The manor and advowson in 1433 was vested in Nicholas Wychyncham 
and Alice his wife/ and to them succeeded their grandson Robert. The 
manor then passed to Thomas Crofts, of Westhall, whose will is dated 20th 
April, 1474. His daughter Margaret married John Brightyeve or Brytyff, of 
Bernham, in Norfolk, who in her right held the manor. He devised it to 
his daughter Agnes.* 

We learn from an inquisition in the time of Hen. VII. that the manor 
was vested in Agnes Brytyff, widow, and Robert Lylles, being held of Sir 
Thomas West De la Ware, Lord De la Ware, by fealty, and service of a hive 
of honey, and they demised to John Brytyff and others for life of the said 
John and 5 years over, with remainder to Robert, son of the said John, in 
tail, with remainder to the said John Brytyff's right heirs. 

John Brytyff died 17th April, 1497, and the said Robert Brytyff, then 
aged 14, was found to be son and heir.^ 

The manor, or at least a farm, was granted by the Crown in 1545 to 
Anthony Rous,^ and amongst the Chancery Proceedings of Elizabeth will 
be found an action touching the manor between Edmund Chapman and 
Anne his wife and Thomas Rouse .^ The manor has ever since remained 
vested in the Rouse family, and is now in the possession of the present 
Earl of Stradbroke, the devolution being similar to the Manor of Henham 
in this Hundred. 

Court Rolls of the manor from i Edw. IV. to 2 Hen. VII. will be 
found in the Public Record Office.^ 



' Feet of Fines, 16 Edw. II. 25. Robert, = Inquis. 12 Hen. VII. 1218. 

son of Walter deBemhani,app. clam. ^Particulars of farm, 37 Hen. VIII. 
"Add. Ch. 10378. D.K.R. 10 App. ii. p. 263. 

3I.P.M., 12 Hen. VI. 31. ^C.P. ser. ii. B. xlvi. 4. 

* This not certain. * Portfolio,' 203, 106. 



SOUTH WOLD. 



155 




SOUTHWOLD MANOR. 

[HIS manor was held by the Abbot of St. Edmunds towards 
victualhng the monks, and consisted of i carucate of land. 
The abbot had both the soc and the sac. There were 5 
villeins, 4 bordars, one ploughteam in demesne, 4 belonging 
to the tenants, 4 acres of meadow, i rouncy, 4 beasts, 3 hogs, 
and 30 sheep. There also belonged to this manor a moiety 
of a sea hedge, and the fourth part of the other moiety. 

In the time of the Confessor the manor rendered 20,000 herrings, but 
at the time of the Survey 25,000.' The manor had been given to the 
Abbey of St. Edmunds by Alfric, Bishop of the East Angles, and the abbot 
had a grant of a market here in 1222, and for a fair upon the eve and day of 
St. Phihp and St. Jacob in 1227.^ 

In 1240 Theobald, Abbot of Leiston, laid claim to the manor, upon 
which an action ensued, but the right of the Abbot of St. Edmunds was 
established. 

In 1259 the manor was exchanged by Simon, Abbot of St. Edmunds, 
with Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, for the Manor of Mildenhall, in 
Lackford Hundred, and in 1260 Richard de Clare obtained a licence of the 
King to make a castle of his house here.^ 

This estate Richard, who died about 1263" gave to his son Gilbert, 
who resigned the same and all his other property in England into the hands 
of King Edw. I., in order to obtain the hand of Joan de Acre, his daughter, 
in marriage, which being solemnized, his estates were restored, but with an 
entail upon the issue of such marriage, and in default of such to her heirs and 
assigns, if she survived him. Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, died in 
1296,' leaving by the said Joan issue, Gilbert de Clare, who in 1314 was slain 
at the battle of Bannockburn. This Joan remarried Ralph Mortimer, 
who was created by Edw. I. Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, and had wreck 
of the sea from Eastonstone to Eyecliff. 

The manor passed to Elizabeth de Burgh, wife of John de Burgh, one 
of the sisters and coheirs of Gilbert de Clare. She afterwards married 
Theobald de Verdon,and died seised of the manor in 1360,^ or at least of that 
portion which had not been annexed to the Priory of Wangford in 1338, 
as before mentioned. 

In 1449 it is said the manor was held unjustly by Richard Plantagenet, 
Duke of York, and Cecily his wife. Certainly in this or the following year 
we meet with a fine levied in which William Alnewyk, Bishop of Lincoln, 
John, Viscount of Beaumont, Sir Ralph Cromwell, Sir Ralph Boteler, Sir 
John Fastolf, Sir William Oldhall, William Tresham, William Burley, 
Thomas Yonge, and Thomas Willoughby were plaintiffs, and Richard, 
Duke of York, and Cecilia his wife, were deforciants,' and a like fine 
respecting the manor and town was levied between the same parties in 
1460.* We learn from the Rolls of Parliament that in 1495 the manor 
was vested in the King.^ 

In 1504 King Hen. VII. by charter incorporated Southwold and granted 
to it the lordship called Queen's Demesne Revenue, with other privileges.'" 



' Dom. ii. 371&. 

' Chart. Rolls, 11 Hen. III. pt. i. 11. 

Ub., 44 Hen. HI. 12, 25. 

*I.P.M., 47 Hen. HI. 34- 

5 1.P.M., 24 Edw. I. 107. 



«I.P.M., 34 Edw. in. 83. 
'Feet of Fines, 28 Hen. VI. 28. 
* Feet of Fines, 39 Hen. VI. 28. 
9R. of P. vi. 475. 
'° Originalia, 20 Hen. VII. Rot. 15. 



156 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

The charter constituted the town a free borough or corporation to be 
governed by 2 bailiffs, a recorder, and other inferior officers. It authorised 
the holding of a court of record for the trial of all civil actions, to be held 
before the high steward and bailiffs, and a court leet or view of frankpledge, 
to be held before the high steward or his deputy, the return of the king's 
writs, a gaol, two weekly markets, and two annual fairs. 

The bailiffs and steward were appointed justices of the peace, and the 
bailiffs were appointed admirals of the port with an exclusive jurisdiction. 
These corporative rights were successively confirmed by the following 
charters and letters patent : Of Hen. VIII. dated ist March; i Edw. VI. 
dated 22nd June; i Eliz. dated 12th June; 2 James I. dated 14th May; 
10 Charles II. dated 8th May ; and i William and Mary, dated 23rd January. 

Davy states that there are no Court Rolls now extant, all of them having 
been either embezzled or destroyed in the fire of 1659. This fire consumed 
three parts of the houses of Southwold, and in the space of four hours, 
town hall, market hall, market place, and prison, shops, warehouses, 
granaries, buildings, and 238 dwelling-houses were utterly destroyed. The 
greater part too of the moveable goods belonging to the inhabitants, their 
tackling and nets used in the fisheries, their corn, barley, and oats, and 
merchandise, all fell a sacrifice to the devouring flames. The loss was 
estimated at about ;f40,ooo, and 300 families were rendered destitute. Mr. 
Robert Wake, who gives a description of the fire in his " History of South- 
wold and its Vicinity, Ancient and Modern " in 1839 (P- ^^) adds: "Among 
the other injuries which the town and its traffic suffered from the dispensa- 
tion, was the destruction of all the Court Baron Rolls, one of the conse- 
quences of which was that the copyholders of the corporation in progress of 
time became freeholders. In the town chest there are two minute books 
containing entries of admission to various copyholds of the Manor of 
Southwold, which are concurrent testimonies not only of the existence of 
the copyholds of the manor, but from their number within the limited 
period to which the books relate would lead to the conclusion that the 
copyholds must have been numerous." 

But both Davy and Wake were mistaken as to the utter loss of the 
Court Rolls, and the latter' s assumed consequence of the loss is absurd to 
the professional mind. 

Court Rolls for the 19, 20, 29, 32 to 36, 39, 40, 46 Edw. III., 8 Rich. II., 
12, 14 to 17, 19, 20, 22 Rich. II., will be found in the Public Record Office,' 
and those for 35 Hen. VI. also,"" while the Rolls for the 31 Hen. VIII. are 
mentioned in the second Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, 
App. ii. p. 47. 

" Southwold Manor " was included in a fine levied in 1559 by John 
Sherewood against Thomas Rous and others^; but this was evidently of 
the portion which had been annexed to Wangford Priory in 1338. This 
portion John Rous bought of the Duke of Norfolk in 161 2. 



' Portfolio, 203, 107, 108, 109. ^ Fine, Hil. i Eliz. 

"76. no. 




SPEXHALL. 157 

SPEXHALL MANOR. 

T the time of the Domesday Survey this manor was held as 
part of Wissett by Alan, Earl of Brittany, and in 1093 it 
passed to his brother Alan, the Black, Earl of Richmond. 
In 1288 John de Vallibus died seised of the manor, which 
passed to his daughter and coheir Maud, married to William 
de Ros or Roos, of Hamlake, one of the competitors for the 
Crown of Scotland 1292, through his great-grandmother 
Isabel, daughter of William the Lion, King of Scotland. 

William de Roos subsequently engaged in the wars in Gascony and 
Scotland, and discovering the intention of his kinsman Robert de Roos, 
then lord of Werte, to deliver up that castle to the Scots, he lost no time 
in apprising the King, who thereupon dispatched him with a thousand men 
to defend the place, but the Scots attacking this force upon its march cut 
it to pieces ; when the King himself, advancing from Newcastle, soon 
obtained possession of the castle, and appointed Lord Roos its governor, 
allowing him during his absence in Gascony to nominate his brother Robert 
lieutenant. Shortly afterwards William had a grant of this castle, for- 
feited by the treason of his kinsman. In 1307 he was appointed the King's 
lieutenant between Berwick and the River Forth, and in 1313 was appointed 
warden of the West Marches of Scotland. 

He was summoned to Parliament from 23rd June, 1295, to 6th Oct, 1313, 
and died at the age of 55 in 1316, being buried at Kerham. 

The manor passed to his son and heir, William de Roos, 3rd Lord Roos, 
of Hamlake, who was summoned to Parliament from 20th Nov. 1317, to 
12th Sept. 1342. 

He was one of the commissioners appointed in 1311, with William, 
Archbishop of York, to negotiate peace with Robert Bruce, King of Scotland, 
and afterwards engaged in the wars in Gascony and Scotland. Dugdale 
tells us that in 1338 the King granted him a certain tower m the City of 
London, built by King Edw. II., and adjoining to the River Thames, 
near to a place called Baynard's Castle, to hold to him the said William 
and his heirs as appurtenant to his Castle of Hamlake, in Yorkshire, by the 
service of a rose to be yearly paid at the Exchequer, upon the feast day 
of the Nativity of St. John Baptist for ever.' 

He married Margery, sister and heir of Giles, Lord Badlesraere, of Leeds 
Castle, Kent, and widow of Sir Thomas Arundel, Knt., and dying i6th 
Feb. 1342, the manor passed to his son and heir, William de Roos, 4th Lord 
Roos, of Hamlake, married to Margaret, daughter of Ralph, Lord Nevill. 

He was present at the battle of Cressy, being a leader of the second 
brigade of the English Army, and later had a command at Newcastle in the 
conflict when David Bruce, King of Scotland, and many of the nobles, after 
sustaining defeat, fell into the hands of the English. He was subsequently 
at the siege of Calais with the Black Prince. 

WiUiam, 4th Lord, died without issue in the Holy Land in 1352, when 
the manor vested in Thomas de Roos, of Hamlake, 5th Baron, married to 
Beatrix, daughter of Ralph, Earl of Stafford, and widow of Maurice Fitz 
Maurice, Earl of Desmond. The next lord we learn of is Sir John Swillington, 
who had married Ann, daughter and heir of — Rosse. 

'Baronage, i. 548. 



158 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

The manor is included in a fine levied in 1589 by Paul Bayninge' 
against William Grene and others/ 

The manor house, about half a mile from the church, has been rebuilt 
and improved, and is now the property and residence of Capt. Maclaine 
Whitting. 

Manor of Banyards. 

This also was a member of Wissett, and was held in the time of William 
the Conqueror by Earl Alan of Brittany. It subsequently vested in Geffery 
Baynard, of Spexhall, and on his death passed to his son and heir, Richard 
Baynard, who was hving in 1422' and on his death passed to his son and 
heir, Robert Baynard, who was living in 1450. 

Robert Baynard' s daughter and coheir, Margaret, in 1426 married 
John, son of John Bacon, of Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, and this manor was 
settled on her by agreement loth May 5 Hen. VI. He died in 1462. Her 
second husband was — Wingfield. 

She died 31st Aug. 1504, having had a son, Thomas Bacon, who married 
Margery, daughter of John Jenny, and died in his mother's lifetime, leaving 
three daughters, namely, Elizabeth, wife of Sir John Glemham, of Glemham 
Parva ; Katherine, wife of Robert Garneys, of Kenton ; and Eleanor Bacon, 
who were found to be the next heirs of Margaret."^ The manor was then 
held of the Priory of Thetford by fealty and rent of 5s. per annum, and 
was valued at 20 marks per annum. Presumably Eleanor Bacon died 
intestate. Elizabeth died in 1533, and Katherine Garneys died in 1558. 
Christopher Glemham, the son and heir of Elizabeth Glemham, died in 
1561, and John Garneys, the son and heir of Katherine Garneys, succeeded 
to a moiety of the manor, and died in 1562, leaving Thomas Garneys his 
son and heir, who dying in 1567 left his brother Nicholas, who died in 1628, 
his heir. 

Amongst the Exchequer Depositions may be seen an enquiry as to 
whether Church Haugh Hills is parcel of glebe of Spexhall Church, and as to 
meets and bounds in proceedings between John Barnes and this Nicholas 
Garneys in 1611-12 at Halesworth. 

The other moiety of the manor vested in Thomas, son and heir of 
Christopher Glemham. He died in 1571, and was succeeded by his son 
and heir. Sir Henry Glemham, who died in 1632, leaving Sir Thomas 
Glemham his son and heir. 

The manor is included in two fines levied in 1586 and 1589 — the first was 
levied by Paul Bayninge and others against Philip Strelley and others,' and 
the other by the said Paul Bayninge against William Grene and others.® 
It is probable, therefore, Paul Bayning had by 1589 acquired both moieties 
of the manor. 

Arms of Banyard : Sable on a fesse between two chevrons Or, as many 
annulets united of the field. 

Burghard's Manor. 

This manor was vested in Henry Banyard, and passed to his two 
daughters, one married to Thomas Duke and the other to Sir John Throg- 
morton, who jointly sold it with tenements and rents in SpexhaU, Rum- 

' See Manor of Rumburgh, in this Hundred. ''I.P.M., 21 Hen. VIII. 16,100. 

°Fine, Hil.31 Eliz. ^pine, Trin. 28 Eliz. 

^His Will was proved at Ipswich 1444- ^Fine, Hil. 31 Eliz. 
1455, fol. 144. 



SPEXHALL. 159 

burgh, and Wissett by a fine levied in 1546 to Roger Bell of Haughley/ 
Bell sold the manor to John Broun, of Halesworth, whose eldest son, John, 
sold it to Paul Bannynge, of London, in 1596/ It was at this time held as 
of the Manor of Wissett. 

Rivet Manor. 

Page, in his History of Suffolk (p. 265), says: " In the 5th King Hen. 
VIII., Sir William Sydney, of Walsingham, in Norfolk, delivered and con- 
firmed to Roger, eldest son of Sir JohnTownsend, Knt., Judge of the Common 
Pleas (to fulfil the will of his father), all the lands, tenements, rents, and 
services of Scroby, Rivet Manor, &c., in this parish ; which he held jointly 
with Sir Roger the Judge, William Gournay, and others of the grant of John 
Hoo, of Blyburgh, and Sir John Heveningham." Page gives no references, 
but the extract is no doubt taken from his favourite authority, Blomefield. 

We find no other mention of this Manor of Rivet. 



' Fine, Trin. 38 Hen. VIII. * Fine, Easter 38 Eliz. 



i6o 



THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 




STOVE N MANOR. 

[HERE was no manor here in the time of the Domesday 
Survey, and but two holdings are mentioned. One was the 
holding of two freemen, Langabein and Gooday, under 
commendation to Godwin, son of Tuck, in the Confessor's 
time, with 14 acres of land, and 2 bordars and half a 
ploughteam, valued at 2s., of which the King and the Earl 
had the soc. This was included in the lands of Roger Bigot 
as tenant in chief.' 

The other holding was that of Hugh de Montford, having in demesne 
50 acres of land, which 4 freemen held in the Confessor's time, and which at 
the time of the Survey were held by three freemen. There was half an 
acre of meadow and one ploughteam in demesne. This holding was valued 
at y^s. and 100 herrings. The King and the Earl had soc and sac over 
these four men.^ 

Roger Bigot seems to have held the lordship of the parish. In 1269 
Sir Hugh de Jernegan, Knt.,held of Roger, son of Peter Fitz Osbert, divers 
lands in Stoven and Bugges, for which he did homage to Roger, son of the 
said Peter, in the presence of Walter de Redisham, Knt. It is not clear 
however that Sir Hugh held the lordship. 

In 1258 Philip Bocland had a grant of free warren. In 1316 Robert 
de Biskele (or Bixley) was lord, and in 1328 Roger de Kerdeston held half 
a fee here. 

Certainly from 1844 to the present time the manor has been held by 
the Earls of Stradbroke. 



' Dom. ii. 3336, 334. 



' Dom. ii. 406. 




THEBERTON. i6i 

THEBERTON MANOR. 

|HE manor was held by Robert Malet as tenant in chief at 
the time of the Domesday Survey, having been held by a 
freeman named Suarthogh in the time of Edward the Con- 
fessor, from Ulf, son of Manningswart, as a manor with 60 
acres. In Saxon times there was a ploughteam, but in 
Norman days this had disappeared. There were also 2 
acres of meadow, and the value had come down by the 

time of the Survey from 20s. to half that amount. The manor was in 

the possession of Hubert, who held of Robert Malet.' 

By 1 200 the manor was vested in Roger Bigot, and from him came to John 
Bigot, who married Isabella, and had free warren here in 1302." He died 
in 1305,^ and was succeeded by his son and heir Roger Bigot, who died 
seised in 1307,' when the manor passed to Sir John Bigot, and after his 
death to Sir Ralph Bigot, who died without issue in 1416. The manor 
then passed to the Jenney family. In 1441 Sir Edmund Jenney held his 
first court. He was succeeded by William Jenney, of Knodishall and 
Theberton, who was succeeded by his son and heir, John Jenney, who 
died in 1460, and from this time to the death of Sir Arthur Jenney in 1668 
the manor passed in the same course as the Manor of Knodishall, in this 
Hundred. 

This manor is specifically mentioned in the inquisition p.m. of William 
Jenney,' and a fine of the manor was levied in 1565 by Christopher Layer 
against this Francis Jenney," probably on some settlement. 

Amongst the Chancery Proceedings of Queen Elizabeth is an action 
by Arthur Jenney against Francis Jenney and Thomas Okeley to protect 
plaintiff's title by demise in a park and grounds called Theberton Park, and 
the reversion of the site of the Manor of Buxley called Brames demised to 
deft. Okeley, the reversion in deft. Francis Jenney, v/ho agreed to demise 
same to plaintiff.' 

Sir Arthur Jenney by his will dated 22nd Feb. 1667, proved in 1668, 
left the manor to his widow Mary for life, and then to his son by her, 
Edmund Jenney. The manor had been settled on Sir Arthur's marriage 
on the male issue of the marriage. He was the last of the Jenneys having 
the lordship, for by 1705 it had passed to John Fuller, who this year held 
his first court. It seems to have passed from him to Hannah Fuller, spinster, 
who in 1 71 9 held her first court. 

In 1722 William Bradley was lord, and this year held his first court, 
but before 1750 he had sold to John Ingham, who before 1778 sold to 
George Doughty, of Leiston and of Theberton Hall, who this year held his 
first court. He was the son and heir of Samuel-Park Doughty, of Martlesham, 
and grandson of the Rev. George Doughty, rector of Martlesham. 

George Doughty in 1792 erected the present handsome white brick 
mansion in a small, but well- wooded park. He was High Sheriff for the 
county in 1793, and married Anne, daughter and heir of John Goodwin, of 
Martlesham Hall. By her he had issue two sons and as many daughters. 
He died 21st August, 1798, when the manor passed to his widow, who 
held her first court in 1817 and died in 1829, when the manor went to her 

'Dom. ii. 314. 5i_p.]v[., 15 Hen. VIII. 53. 

^ Chart. Rolls, 30 Edw. I. 25. ^Fine, Easter, 7 Eliz. 

3I.P.M., 33 Edw. I. 76. 'C.P. ii. 100. 
*I.P.M., 35Edw. I. 46. 

W 



i62 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

eldest son and heir, the Rev. George Clarke Doughty, of Theberton Hall, 
vicar of Hoxne, rector of Denham, and of Martlesham. 

He married 4th July, 1796, Katherine, only daughter and heir of 
Ezekiel Revett, of Hoxne, and by her who died in 1804, aged 28 years, had 
three sons and three daughters, namely, George Thomas, who died in 1802, 
Charles Montagu, who succeeded him, and Frederick Goodwin Doughty, 
born at Hoxne in 1800 ; Mary Anne, Harriet, and Catherine-Helen. 

On the death of George Clarke Doughty, 22nd April, 1832, the manor 
passed to his son, the Rev. Charles Montagu Doughty, vicar of Hoxne and 
rector of Denham and Martlesham. 

He married ist Beatrice, daughter and coheir of Rear-Admiral Sir 
Charles Cunningham, of Oak Lawn, in Hoxne, and 2ndly 29th Jan. 1840, 
Frederica, 3rd daughter of the Hon. and Rev. Frederick Hotham, rector 
of Dennington and prebendary of Rochester. 

He, died 23rd April, 1850, and was succeeded by his son, Henry 
Montague Doughty, of Theberton, R.N., and barrister at law, the present 
lord of the manor, who in 1841 married Edith Rebecca, only daughter of D. 
Cameron, Chief Justice of Vancouver's Island, and has with other issue, 
Charles Hotham Montague Doughty. 

The " Rents of Assize free and bond of the Manor of Theberton, with 
dales workes, rents, henns, and other services by the yeare," will be found 
in the Davy MSB. in the British Museum.' A rental also of the manor, 
1668-9, will be found in the same collection.^ 

Arms : Of Ingham, Per pale. Or and Vert, a cross moline Gu. Of 
Doughty, Arg. two bars between two mullets. Sable, pierced. 



' Add MSS. 19082, p. 339. ' lb. p. 340. 




THORINGTON. 163 

THORINGTON. 

I HE principal manor was that held in King Edward 
the Confessor's time by Halden, with 3 carucates of land. 
There were 8 bordars, 2 serfs, 2 ploughteams, in demesne, 
and 3 belonging to the tenants, wood for 20 hogs, 7 acres 
of meadow, i rouncy, 72 sheep, and 15 goats. There 
was also a church with 8 acres, all valued at 40s. 

By the time of the Great Survey, the value had risen 
to 60s., and there had been various changes in the details ; the bordars 
had risen to 13, the ploughteams in demesne to 3, the rouncies to 2, the 
sheep to 92, and there were in addition 4 hives of bees and 14 hogs. The 
manor was then held by William de Boeville of Geoffrey de Magnaville, 
the tenant in chief, and the Survey states that the "holding did not belong 
to the Honor of Ansgar. To the manor were attached 2 freemen, with 
120 acres of land and 4 acres of meadow, 2 bordars, and in Saxon times 2 
ploughteams in demesne (when the value of the holding was i mark of 
silver), but in Norman days none (when the value was 8s.). The land was 
ij leagues in length, and i| in breadth, and rendered in a gelt 7ji.' 

Another manor here was held by Aluric a freeman in the time of the 
Confessor, with two carucates of land. There were 5 villeins, 11 bordars, 
3 serfs, 2 ploughteams in demesne, and 4 belonging to the tenants, wood 
sufficient for the support of 6 hogs, 2 acres of meadow, 6 non-working beasts, 
40 hogs, 120 sheep, and 4 hives of bees, all of the value of 60s. 

By the time of the Survey, the serfs were reduced by one, the plough- 
teams in demesne had increased by one, but the value does not seem 
to have altered. The King and the Earl had soc and sac, and the manor 
was held by Godfrey de Pierrepoint of William de Varennes as tenant in 
chief, though it seems to have been claimed by Robert Malet.^ 

There were two other small holdings in Thorington mentioned in the Great 
Survey. One was of a freeman, Norman, holding under Roger Bigot 30 
acres and under him Alveva a freewoman held. A moiety of the commenda- 
tion was Norman's, and a moiety belonged to Edric. 

There was i villein and half a ploughteam in demesne, and the 
value was 4s. Of this the King and the Earl had the soc.^ 

The other was enumerated amongst the possessions of Earl Alan, and 
consisted of 6 freemen holding 6 carucates and a half of land in Thorington 
and Wenhaston. On this large holding there were 3 villeins, 16 bordars, 5 
ploughteams, 4 acres of meadow, and wood sufficient for 16 hogs. There 
was also a mill and a church, with 10 acres of freeland and half an acre of 
meadow.* 

Manor of Thorington or Thorington Wimples, with Wenhaston 
al. Wimples Ufford al. Westons. 

In 1247 Geoffrey de Wymples held 2 fees here, which included the 
main manor, and his name thus became associated with it. To him 
succeeded Sir Roger de Wymples, who died in 1275. 

In the loth Report of the Historical MSS. Commission, pt. iv. reference 
is made to an agreement between this Sir Roger de Wymples and the Priory 
of Blythburgh concerning a right of way, &c., on a moor in Thorington,^ 

' Dom. ii. 412&. ■* Dom. ii. 2^2h. 

' Dom. ii. 400. ^ P. 456. 

3 Dom. ii. 335. 



i64 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

and in the same report there are notes of many grants of William, John, 
and Richard de Thorington of lands here to the Church of Blythburgh, and 
one of these grants is by Walter de Thorington, who is described as brother 
of John de " Wymplys," they were therefore unquestionably the same 
family. 

The same report also notices a confirmation by Walter Bishop of Nor- 
wich of the right of the Canons of Blythburgh to the tithes of the men of 
this Roger de " \^'impUs " in Thorington, and gives the date at from 1244 
to 1257.' 

In 1302 Edw. I. granted to Sir John de Norwich, Knt.,son of Sir Walter, 
Knt., and his heirs, free warren in all his demesne in this parish, but he 
probably had not then the main manor, as in 1323 John de Cove, the grand- 
son of Roger de Wymples and others held the lordship, having had a grant 
of free warren here in 1298.^ 

Further, in 133 1 with Eva his wife, he levied a fine against William 
Bacon, parson of the Church of Tasburgh.^ 

The Davy MSS. gives a list of 5 lords following him, thus : 1330, Hamo 
de Huntingfield ; 1332, Thomas de Resedene ; 1336, Robert de Weston^ ; 
1338, John Fraunceys and Barth. his son (?); and 1341, Robert de Weston, 
living in 1346 and 1357. We find however no particulars as to these 
lords, but it appears that Sir John de Norwich, who had a grant of free 
warren here in 1357,^ had about that date or shortly afterwards did 
acquire the manor. 

He devised his estates to his grandson and namesake, who died seised 
thereof in 1374,^ without issue, leaving Katherine de Brewse his cousin and 
heir, the daughter and heir of Thomas, brother of Sir John Norwich the 
elder, grandfather of the last Sir John, who settled it upon her feoffees with 
her other estates.^ 

Katherine in 1378 became a nun at Dartford, and Margaret her aunt 
became her heir. Margaret married ist Sir Thomas Caily, Knt., and then 
Robert de Ufford, ist Earl of Suffolk, whose son William de Ufford, 
2nd Earl of Suffolk, inherited and died 15th Feb. 1382. 

On the death of the 2nd Earl of Suffolk the manor vested in his nephew. 
Sir Edmund de Ufford, Knt., the eldest son of the brother of liis father. 

He married Sybil, daughter of Sir Simon Pierpont, and seems to have 
been succeeded by his son. Sir Robert de Ufford. He married Eleanor, 
daughter of Sir Thomas Felton, and on his death the manor passed to his 
three daughters and coheirs, Ela married to Richard Bowes, Sybil a nun 
at Barking, and Joan married to William Bowes, brother of Richard. Joan 
left an only daughter and heir Elizabeth*^ married to Thomas, son of Thomas, 
6th Lord Dacre, and Phillippa his wife, daughter of Ralph Nevill, Earl of 
Westmoreland. 

' P. 456. 5 Chart. Rolls, 31 Edw. III. 2. 

= Chart. Rolls, 26 Edw. I. 8. ^I.P.M, 48 Edw. III. 52. 

^ Feet of Fines, 5 Edw. III. 48. Apparently ''See Dalham Manor, in Ris bridge Hundred, 

the manor had been the subject of and Mettingham Castle Manor, in 

a fine levied in 1315 by Giles de Wangford Hundred. 

Wachesham against Gerard de ''Burke says she was daughter of William 

Wachesham. Feet of Fines, 9 Edw. Bowes. See Benacre Manor, in this 

II. 21. Hundred. 
* An action is mentioned on the Pat. Rolls, 

1279, by William de Weston against 

John de Weston and others relating 

to lands here (Pat. Rolls, 7 Edw, 1. 



THORINGTON. 165 

In 1400 we find that Richard Bowes and Ela his wife, WiUiam Bowes 
and Joan his wife, and Sybil, daughter and coheir of Robert de Ufford, 
held their first court for this manor. 

The manor is mentioned in the inquisition p.m. of Joan, wife of Roger 
Swillyngton in 1428' ; possibly this is the widow of William Bowes, she 
having remarried. The manor ultimately vested in Sir Robert Ufford's 
granddaughter, Ehzabeth, wife of Thomas Dacre, and in 1448 we find 
them settling it on themselves for life, with remainder to Robert Fienes 
and Philippa his wife, for life, with remainder to Richard Fienes and Joan 
his wife and the heirs of Joan. Under this entail the manor became vested 
in Joan, daughter of Thomas Dacre, and widow of Sir Richard Fienes, 
Knt., who was declared Baron Dacre by Edw. IV., and died in 1484, when 
it passed to his widow Joan, who died in i486, when the manor passed in 
the same course as the Manor of Benacre, in this Hundred, until the unfor- 
tunate forfeiture of Thomas, 9th Baron Dacre, when the manor passed to 
the Crown, Henry VIII. holding his first court for the manor in 1547. 

King Edw. VI. seems to have granted the manor to Sir Philip Calthorp, 
who died 7th April, 1549, for it is mentioned in his inquisition p.m.," when 
Ehzabeth Parker, widow, and Henry Parker, son and heir, are then found 
next entitled. 

However, in 1562 the manor was with the other possessions of the 
9th Baron, restored to his son Gregory Fienes, loth Baron, who was 
summoned to Parliament in 1572-3. 

In 1564 the manor is included in a fine levied by Sir Rich. Sakevyle 
against Philip Fynes.^ 

Gregory Fienes or Fynes, Lord Dacre, had no issue, and in 1571 had 
licence to alienate the manor to Roger Manwood and others, and the 
assurance was effected by a fine levied the same year.^ 

Under the fine levied 13 Eliz., or in some other mode, the manor 
became vested in Henry Norris, grandson of Thomas, 8th Lord Dacre, for 
he was certainly lord in 1576. He was son of Henry Norreys, of Norris, 
who married Mary, daughter of Thomas, Lord Dacre, and was summoned 
to Parliament, 8th May, 1572, as Baron Norris, of Rycote. He married 
Elizabeth, younger daughter and coheir of John Baron Williams, of Thame, 
and one of the coheirs of the Barony of Williams, and in 1583 sold the manor 
to Leonard Spencer.' 

Leonard Spencer the following year sold to Anthony Wingfield.° 
Against Anthony Wingfield a fine was levied in 1589 by John Sonteye and 
others.'' In 1593 the manor was acquired from the said Anthony Wingfield*' 
by Sir Edward Coke, the eminent lawyer and commentator. 

A fine was levied of the manor in 1620, particulars of which will be 
found amongst the Additional Charters in the Brit. Mus.' Sir Edward 
Coke, the Lord Chief Justice, died in 1634, when the lordship passed to his 
5th son, Henry Coke, by Bridget his ist wife, daughter and coheir of John 
Paston, of Huntingfield Hall. Henry Coke held his first court in 1636, and 
married Margaret, daughter and heir of Richard Lovelace, of Kingstown, 
in Kent. 

'I.P.M., 6 Hen. VI. 52. ''Fine, Mich. 26-27 Eliz. 

'I.P.M., 3 Edw. VI. 148. ^Fine, Easter, 31 Eliz. 

^ Fine, Hil. 6 Eliz. " Fine, Hil. 35 Eliz. 

■^Fine, Mich. 13 Eliz. 'Add. Ch. 13700. 
^Fiiae, Hil. 25 Eliz. 



i66 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

Articles of Agreement between Henry Coke and Anthony Freston, of 
Metfield, on the marriage of Anthony^ son of the latter, to Theophila, daughter 
of Henry Coke, 29th Feb. 1648-g, will be found amongst the Tanner MSS. 
in the Bodleian.' 

Henry Coke died in 1661, and was buried at Thorington, being suc- 
ceeded by his eldest son and heir, Richard Coke, who held his first court the 
same year. He married Mary, daughter of Sir John Rous, of Henham 
Hall, Bart., and left an only son Robert. 

On the death of Richard in 1670 the manor passed to his widow 
Mary, for hfe, and on her death in 1674 went to Robert, who upon the de- 
cease of his cousin, John Coke, of Holkam, in Norfolk, unmarried, inherited 
that estate and thus became possessed of the greater part of the property 
of his great-grandfather. Sir Edward Coke. 

He married Anne Osborne, daughter of Thomas, ist Duke of Leeds, 
Lord Treasurer of England, and was succeeded at his decease in 1678 or 
1679 by his only son, Edward Coke, of Holkam, but this manor was 
vested by Act of Parliament in Anthony Freston, Richard Freston, John 
Hall, John Rounsey, Edward Christian, and Samuel Maidwell (? in trust 
for sale), and was purchased by John Bence before 1691 of these trustees, 
for in that year he held his first court. 

In 1719 he devised the manor to Alexander, 2nd son of Edmund Bence, 
of Benhall and Aldeburgh by Mary his wife, daughter of Sir Francis Gallop, 
Knt. He was High Sheriff for the county in 1733, and married Christian, 
daughter of Sir Anthony Deane, Knt., of London. Alexander Bence died 
in 1759, leaving an only surviving daughter, Anne, bom in 1714, and married 
in 1762 to George Golding. of Poslingford, in Risbridge Hundred, by whom 
she had no issue. 

She died in 1794, and he in 1803, when the lordship passed to Anne 
Golding's first cousin, the Rev. Bence Sparrow, rector of Beccles, who 
was the 2nd son of Robert Sparrow, of Worlingham, by Anne his wife, 
daughter of Robert Bence, of Henstead, a younger brother of the above- 
mentioned Alexander Bence, by Mary his wife, daughter and heir of Laurence 
Echard, clerk of Henstead. 

Bence Sparrow, 2nd May, 1804, assumed by sign manual the surname 
and arms of Bence. He married in 1786 Harriet, daughter and heir of 
William Elmy, of Beccles, and dying in Sept. 1824 the manor passed to his 
eldest son, Henry Bence-Bence of Thorington Hall, D.L., Colonel in the 
East Suffolk Militia, who married in 1815 Elizabeth Susanna, 2nd daughter 
and coheir of Nicholas Starkie, of French wood, co. Lancaster, and on his 
death, gth Feb. 1861, the manor passed to his son and heir, Henry Alexander 
Starkie Bence, D.L. for Suffolk, High Sheriff in 1872, who in 1850 married 
Agnes, 2nd daughter of John Barclay, and died in 1881, when the manor 
passed to his three daughters, Agnes Marian, married in 1876 to Percy, 
2nd son of Henry Trower ; Edith Mabel ; and Ida Millicent, married in 1884 to 
Guy Lenox Bence-Lambert, 2nd son of Alexander Clendining Lambert of 
Brook Hall, by Emma Maria, daughter of Guy Lenox Prendergast, M.P. 

The hall was rebuilt by the Bences" in 1820, at a cost of about £16,000, 
and stands in a small but fine park of 200 acres near the Beccles road, 6^ 
miles from Saxmundham. It is a handsome erection, built of white brick, 
with a noble Ionic portico, and contains several elegant apartments. 

' Tanner, xcviii. 43. ■ As to the Bence family, see N. and Q. Ser. 

viii. 12. 



THORINGTON. 167 

A rental of the manor in 1576 will be found in the Davy MSS.' and 
an extent of the manor in 1579 may be seen in the same collection.'' The 
half-year's rental for the 'manor, 20th April, 1593, was 42s. id., and 
for the whole year £4. i8s. 6d. The amount of the year's rental at Michael- 
mas, 1766, was £5. 2s. lid. This rental will be found in the Davy MSS.^ 

Arms of Norris : Quarterly, Arg. and Gu. ; a fesse, Az. in the 2nd 
and 3rd quarters, a fret Or. Of Coke, Party per pale. Gules and Azure : 
three eagles displayed Argent. Of Bence, Argent, on a cross between four 
frets. Gules, a castle of the first. 

Manor of Thorington Hall als. Sowters. 

This was the principal manor in Saxon times, and held by Halden, 
and in the time of the Great Survey by William de Boevill of Geoffrey 
de Magnaville. In the early part of the 15th century it was held by Robert 
Sampson and Elizabeth his wife, who in 1428 released all their right in this 
manor to John Hopton. From this time to the time of Sir Owen Hopton, 
the manor passed in the same course as the Manor of Blythburgh in this 
Hundred. 

Sir Owen Hopton, however, seems to have parted with the manor to 
Sir Edward Clere, Knt., for we find him, 9th May, 1611, selling it with the 
Manor of Wenhaston Grange for ;^i,ioo to Sir Edward Coke, the great lawyer. 
It probably passed subsequently in a like course of descent with Thorington 
Manor until iSoa, when we find it purchased by John Dresser, who died 
in 1822, when it seems to have vested in his nephew, the Rev. Jeremiah 
Day, and is probably now extinct. 

Fines were levied apparently of this manor in 1537 and 1566, the 
former levied by Thomas Pope against Arthur Hopton,'* and the latter by 
Henry Mansner against Drue Drury and others,^ and on the Memoranda 
Rolls in 1568 is an entry for the removal of process from the manor and 
discharge of Drue Drury and Philip Parker and his wife." 



' Add. MSS. 19082, p. 366. •* Fine, Hil. 29 Hen. VIII. 

"lb. p. 371. ^Fine, Mich. 8 Eliz. 

3 Add. MSS. 19082, 3616. 6M. 10 Eliz. Mich. Rec. Rot. 96. 




i68 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

THORPE MANOR. 

I HERE were in the time of the Domesday Survey two 
manors here — one held by Wolmer, a freeman, with 50 
acres, over which Wm. Malet's predecessor had com- 
mendation, and the said William was himself seised. 
There was one ploughteam in demesne and half a plough- 
team belonging to the tenants, also 4 bordars, wood for 
12 hogs, and half an acre of meadow, all valued at i6s. 
Of this manor Roger Bigot had the soc, and there belonged to it two 
acres in Dunwich — that is, these were included in the above valuation, 
though over these 2 acres Robert Malet had the soc' 

The other manor was held by Ulmar under Robert Malet's predecessor, 
with 20 acres, and of this William Malet also his father was seised. There 
was a ploughteam, together with wood for 6 hogs, and the value was 40^, 
The Domesday tenant in chief was Roger Bigot.'' 

The only other holding here in Domesday time was that of a freeman 
holding under Earl Alan. He had 69 acres and 2 acres of meadow, of which 
the King and the Earl had the soc. To the manor belonged 3 bordars, 
and there was sufficient wood for the support of 20 hogs. In Saxon times 
this holding was valued at 5s., but it had increased to los.^ 

William Bigot, Steward of the Household to King Hen. I., granted 
Edric of Thorp, with all the lands, men, and services in Thorp and Dunwich 
to the Priory of the Virgin Mary and St. Andrew in Thetford, founded by 
Roger Bigot his father. Later, the manor vested in the Abbot of Leiston, 
and passed on the dissolution of the religious houses to the Crown, when in 
1536 it was granted to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. There has been 
no manor here for a very long period of time. Lord Huntingfield had the 
advowson of Aldringham, of which Thorpe is a hamlet, and which with 
land in the hamlet came to him with the estate at Leiston, formerly the 
estate of the Abbey of Leiston. 



' Dom. ii. 333, 335&. ^ Dom. ii. agai. 

' Dom. ii. 333, 333&. 




UBBESTON. 169 

UBBESTON. 

^N Saxon times there were two manors in this place. One 
was of great extent, and was held by Toret in the time of the 
Confessor. It consisted of 3 carucates of land. There were 
17, but later y, villeins, 4, but later 5, bordars, 2 serfs, 2 
ploughteams in demesne and 9 belonging to the tenants. 
The wood was sufficient for the support of 160 hogs, and 
there were 7 acres of meadow, i rouncy, 16 beasts, 30 hogs, 
and 12 sheep. 

By the time of the Great Survey, though the value had not changed 
from lOOs., the details had varied considerably. There were but 3 villeins, 
and though the bordars had increased to 20 the serfs had diminished by i. 
There were marks of increased prosperity seen even more clearly in the fact 
that there were 2 additional ploughteams, i in demesne, and the other 
belonging to the men ; even the stock had gone up, for there were two 
rouncies, 19 beasts, and 92 sheep. In the manor lay 3 freemen with 42 
acres, i bordar, i ploughteam, and wood for 16 hogs and an acre of wood. 

The holding of the 3 freemen was valued in the Confessor's time at 
6s. 8(^., but in the time of the Survey at 8s. There was also a church with 

3 acres valued at 3^. The whole manor was 7 quarantenes in length, and 

4 in breadth, and in a king's gelt rendered -^d. 

The manor was held by Ralph Baynard as the Domesday tenant in 
chief.' i 

The other manor was held in the Confessor's time by a freewoman 
over whom Norman had commendation, and she had 100 acres. Of these 
Robert Malet had 30 acres, and Norman had the remainder of Roger 
Bigot as a manor. 

There were 2 villeins, 2 bordars, i serf, and 2 acres of meadow. The 
value was in Saxon times 8s., but in the time of the Survey 12s., and the 
King and the Earl had the soc." 

Besides these two manors there were several small holdings in Ubbeston. 
Ralph the Staller held in the Confessor's time a villein with 15 acres valued 
at 15^1. , which land at the time of the Survey was held by Hamo de Vellenis 
of Earl Alan.^ 

Amod, a freewoman in the Confessor's time, held 30 acres over which 
Norman the Sheriff had commendation, and there were 2 bordars and 2 
acres of meadow valued at 4s. At the time of the Survey Robert Malet 
held this, but Roger Bigot claimed it." 

Robert Malet also had here a freeman under commendation, holding 
9 acres valued at i%d. The King and the Earl had the soc, and at the time 
of the Survey Walter de Caen held of Malet, and Goodrich, son of Herebold, 
held 8 acres valued at 12^., of which the King and the Earl had the soc' 

The remaining two holdings were of freemen under Roger Bigot. 
Mansun, a freeman, had 12 acres over which Norman had commendation. 
There was half a ploughteam, also a bordar, and an acre of meadow. Also 
a church with 6 acres, the value of the holding being 40^. 

The other holding was that of 4 freemen and a half freeman having 40 
acres and 2 acres of meadow, i ploughteam, and wood for 6 hogs, all valued 
at I2S. Of the holdings of all these freemen under Roger Bigot the King 
and the Earl had the soc.^ 

'Dom. ii. 415. ''Dom. ii. 312&. 

^ Dom. ii. 334. ' Dom. ii. 312&. 

3 Dom. ii. 293. ^ Dom. ii. 334. 

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170 



THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 



Ubbeston Manor. 

The two manors in Ubbeston seem to have become merged in one at 
an early date. John, son of Robert, held half a knight's fee of Walter, 
son of Robert here,' and Roger, son of John, seems to have had the manor in 
the time of Edw. I. He then claimed view of frankpledge and assize of 
bread and beer here.'' 

About 1286 he was succeeded by his son and heir, Robert de Ubbeston. 
In 1316 a fine of the manor was levied by John de la Dale, pit., and the said 
Robert de Ubbeston, deforc.^ and in 1328 we find an order on the Close Rolls 
to deliver to Joan, late wife of " Robert le fitz Wautier " in dower, a moiety 
of a fee in Ubbeston, held by Robert de Redesham, of the yearly value of 
60s.* 

Robert de Ubbeston in 1332 enfeoffed Robert de Redesham, and some- 
what later, about 1404, Edmund de Redesham conveyed it to Sir William 
Argentine, Knt., Edmund de Bedingfield and others, who released to Sir 
Roger SwilUngton, Knt., Philip de Heveningham, and others. This last 
release is dated the 6 Hen. IV., and will be found amongst the Harleian 
Charters in the Brit. Mus.' 

The manor became vested in the Heveninghams by the marriage of 
Sir John Heveningham with EHzabeth, daughter of John de Redesham ; 
and a fine of this manor and of the Manors of Cookley Stonham and Walpole 
was levied in 1448 by John Hopton and Robert Repps against Sir John 
Heveningham and Elizabeth his wife, deforciants.^ On the death of Sir 
John Heveningham the manor passed to his son and heir, Thomas de 
Heveningham, who died in 1500, and it passed to his son and heir. Sir 
John Heveningham. From this time to the time of Abigail Heveningham, 
who married Henry Heron, the descent of the manor is identical with that of 
Heveningham Manor, in this Hundred. John Heveningham and others, 
feoffees to uses of an indenture dated 2 June, 41 Eliz. [1599J, and made 
between Sir Arthur Heveningham and Maria his wife, held their first court 
7th Oct. 42 Eliz. [1600]. The said Henry Heron sold the manor to Sir Robert 
Kemp, Bart. Page says the lordship was vested in John Soane, who resided at 
Ubbeston Hall, and his sole daughter and heiress, Mary, brought it by 
marriage into the Kemp family, being the 2nd wife of Robert, eldest son 
and heir of Sir Robert Kemp, tlae first Bart, of that house, so created 4th 
March, 1641. 

The John Soane referred to by Page was son of George Soane, son of 
Richard. He was admitted to a house and lands in Halesworth, under the 
will of Richard, dated 12th Sept. 1596, who gave the same to Prudence, his 
wife, for life, and afterwards to the said John, son of George, his (the tes- 
tator's) son in fee. John the grandson was admitted 22nd July, 1618, and 
19th Oct. 1642, Mary, widow of the said John Soane, was admitted until 
Mary their daughter should attain 18. This she did and was admitted 
19th Oct. 1655. 

It is possible there were two manors in Ubbeston, but more probably 
that the Soane family never had the manor, though there is a deed in 
existence in which it is specifically mentioned as being conveyed from a 
feoffee or trustee to Sir Robert Kemp in trust for his mother-in-law. By 
the deed referred to dated 19th Dec. 1668, Roger Coke granted to Sir Robert 



' T. de Nevill, 284, 290. 

''H.R. ii. 147; Q.W. 727. 

3 Feet of Fines, 10 Edw. II. 14, 



•* Close Rolls, 2 Edw. III. 7. Robert fitz 

Walter ; I.P.M., 2 Edw. III. 59. 
^Harl. 45 D. 15. 
«Feet of Fines, 26 Hen. VI. 21. 



UBBESTON. 171 

Kemp in fee the " Manor of Ubbeston and the Parsonage and the Rectory 
impropriate of Ubbeston aforesaid, and the advowson, Donation free dis- 
position, and right of Patronage of the Vicarage of the parish Church of 
Ubbeston." There is, however, a memorandum endorsed on the deed under 
the hand of Sir Robert Kemp stating that the name of the said Sir Robert 
was made use of only in trust, for the benefit of Mary Soane, of Ubbeston, 
widow, and therefore the said Sir Robert Kemp did promise that he would 
permit the said Mary Soane and her heirs and assigns to receive the rents, 
&c., to their own use. And that he would at all times execute any estate 
of the premises according to the direction of the said Mary Soane. By her 
will, dated loth Sept. 1679, the said Mary Soane, therein described as a 
widow, gave to Mr. Jones, then minister of Ubbeston, and to his successors 
for ever, the tithe corn of the same parish, conditionally that they kept the 
chancel in good repair. She gave all her lands called Cokes unto her only 
daughter, Dame Mary Kemp, and to the heirs of her body, with remainder 
unto her brother William Dade, and to his heirs for ever, and appointed 
her daughter Mary sole executrix. 

John Soane, the father of Sir Robert Kemp's 2nd wife, had built a 
" faire house " in Ubbeston called Harefield House, and this house and 
the lands attached had been included in the settlement made on the marriage 
(after his death) of his daughter Mary with Sir Robert Kemp, and dated 
5th June, 1658. 

The deed by which the Manor of Ubbeston was vested in Sir Robert 
is dated ist June, 1702, and made between Henry Heron, Esq., and Abigail 
his wife, only daughter and heir of Sir William Heveningham. By it in con- 
sideration of ;^2,ooo, the manor was granted to Sir Robert in fee under the 
description of " all that Manor or Lordship of Ubbeston, with all rights, 
&c., also the pond, meadow, &c., and Ubbeston Wood and Stubbing Wood 
in Ubbeston aforesaid." A fine was duly levied, and a recovery suffered. 

Sir Robert Kemp was the son of Sir Robert Kemp, of Gissing, in 
Norfolk, Knt., one of the gentlemen of the Privy Chamber to Chas. I., who 
for his eminent loyalty to that King was created a Bart. Sir Robert, the 
2nd Bart., married ist Mary, daughter of Thomas Kerridge, of Shelley 
Hall. By her he had three children, who all died in infancy. His 2nd wife, 
whom he married 20th Nov. 1657, was Mary, the sole daughter and heir of 
John Soane, of Ubbeston, by whom he had issue Sir Robert, John who died 
young, and William, Mary, wife of Sir Charles Blois, of Cockfield, Bart., and 
Jane, wife of John Dade, M.D., of Tannington. 

Sir Robert Kemp by his wUl dated 3rd May, 1704,' desires that the 
manor after mentioned may remain in his name and family. " I do therefore 
will and bequeath all my manor or lordship of Ubbeston and the lands &c. 
situate in Ubbeston or adjoining towns, which I lately purchased of Henry 
Heron, Esq., and Abigail, his wife, or either of them, and also all my 
Rectories and impropriations, Tythes, lands, and hereditaments situate 
in Dunwich to Robert Kemp my eldest son and his heirs male, with remainder 
to William Kemp my youngest son and his heirs male, with remainder to my 
right heirs for ever." 

Sir Robert died 26th Sept. 1710, and was buried at Gissing, were there 
is an inscription to his memory on a mural monument of white marble 
against the north wall. The inscription refers to his children as three 

'Proved 1710. 



172 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

sons and two daughters, and adds, " Both these Ladies were very prudent 
and pious, few exceeded the former, and scarce any the latter." 

The manor passed to the eldest son. Sir Robert Kemp, 3rd Bart., who 
resided at Ubbeston. He married four times— ist Letitia, daughter of 
Robert King, of Great Thurlow, and widow of Sir Robert Kempe, of Finching- 
field, CO. Essex, by whom he had one daughter only who survived, Mary, 
married to Sir Edmund Bacon, of Garboldisham, co. Norfolk, Bart. ; 
2ndly Elizabeth, daughter and heir of John Brand, of Edwardston, by whom 
he had Sir Robert his successor, John, Isaac, Thomas, and Benjamin, and 
five other children ; 3rdly Martha, daughter of William Blackwell, of 
Mortlake, co. Surrey ; 4th]y Amy, daughter of Richard Phillips of Edward- 
ston, widow of John Burrough, of Ipswich. Sir Robert Kemp died i8th 
Dec. 1734,' and the manor passed to his eldest son. Sir Robert Kemp, 4th 
Bart. 

By a bargain and sale dated 7th April, 1741, made between Sir Robert 
Kemp of the ist part, Edward Ventris of the 2nd part, and George Prety- 
man of the 3rd part, and recovery suffered in Easter Term, 14 Geo. II., the 
said Sir Robert Kemp barred the entail. The description of the property 
in the deed is " all that the Manor of Ubbeston, with its rights, &c., and 
also all that capital messauge or mansion-house called Ubbeston Hall, 
otherwise Harefield House, with Ubbeston Wood and Stubbing Wood, and 
other lands, &c." 

. Sir Robert Kemp, who was M.P. for Oxford from 1730 to 1734, died 
unmarried 15th Feb. 1752, and was succeeded by his brother. Sir John, 5th 
Bart. Sir Robert had by indenture, dated ist and 2nd Oct., 1742, granted 
the manor and also that of Cratfield Le Roos to his brother John, who is in 
the deeds described as a citizen of London, upon trust to lease, mortgage, or 
sell for payment of debts, reserving to himself (Sir Robert) an annuity of 
£200. Sir John Kemp married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Mann, and 
widow of Isaac Brand Colt, of Brightlingsea, co. Essex, but died without 
issue, 25th Nov. 1761. 

By his will dated 26th March, 1761, he devised all his estates to his 
wife. Dame Elizabeth Kemp, and Eleaza Davy in trust to pay funeral 
expenses, debts, and legacies, and subject thereto to his nephew John Kemp 
and to his niece Mary Kemp in fee. The title passed to the nephew. Sir 
John Kemp, who died during his minority and unmarried i6th Jan. 1771,° 
but the manor went under the will to Dame Elizabeth Kemp,^ and on her 
death the manor passed to Mary Kemp, sister of the last Sir John Kemp. 

Mary Kemp made her will i8th March, 1782, and devised her lordship 
to the Rev. Peter PinneU, D.D., Thomas Birch, and Ingham Foster in 
trust to sell the same and to pay the rents or income to her mother (Priscilla, 
widow of Rev. Thomas Kemp), the wife of Anthony Merry for life, and 
then £1,000 to Susan Merry, daughter of the said Anthony Merry, if living, and 
an annuity of £200 to Anthony Merry, during pleasure of trustees, and after 
certain other gifts the whole property to be at the disposal of her mother 
by will. This will, with a codicil made the following year, was proved 15th 
July, 1784, the testatrix having died unmarried. An attempt was made 
to sell the manor, 'and also that of Cratfield Roos, privately in Sept. 1783, 
the property then consisting of 963 acres at the yearly rental of £722. los., 

'Will 1733. ^She with her co-trustee held a court 

'Admin. i6th May, 1771. 23rd Oct, 1766. 



UBBESTON. 173 

and also the advowson of the Vicarage of Ubbeston, worth yearly ;^i 10, and 
was offered by public auction 13th Oct. 1784.' 

The property was purchased by Joshua Vanneck^ afterwards Lord 
Huntingfield, who died in 1816, and from him it has descended to the 
present J. C. Vanneck, 4th Baron Huntingfield, of Heveningham Hall, 
in the same course as the Manor of Heveningham, in this Hundred. Fines 
were levied of the manor in 1552 and 1588, the former by John Browne 
against Hamo Claxston and others, and this included the rectory of Ubbeston,^ 
and the latter by Simon Cook against the said John Browne and others.^ 

Arms of Kemp : Gules, three Garbs, within a Bordure engrailed. Or. 



^Ipswich Journal, 14th August, 1784. ^ Fine, Easter, 30 Eliz. 

'Fine, Mich. 6 Edw. VI. 



174 



THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 




UGGESHALL. 

|HREE manors are mentioned as such here in the Domesday 

Survey. The main manor was that of Earl Hugh. This 

had been held in the Confessor's day by Osketel, a freeman, 

who had 2 carucates of land. There were 5 bordars, i serf, 

3 ploughteams in demesne and i belonging to the tenants, 

and 2 acres and a half of meadow. There was also a church, 

likewise a millj a salt pan and 24 hogs, all valued at 40s. 

By the time of the Survey the value had come down to 30s., the 

mill had disappeared, and the ploughteams in demesne were i less. The 

manor was then held by R. de Curcun of Earl Hugh. Attached to the 

manor was a man included in the same land and valuation. 

The size of the holding was a league and a half long and i league 
broad, and it paid in a gelt 6d. Over this land, and indeed over all the 
other land of Osketel, the priest, Ralph the Staller had soc and sac' 

The second manor was that of Roger Bigot. It had belonged to 
Goodrich, who held 2 carucates of land with 5 villeins, 5 bordars, 3 plough- 
teams belonging to the tenants, and i acre of meadow, valued at 20s. At 
the time of the Survey it was held by R. de Curcun under Roger Bigot, and 
it formed part of the land of which William Malet was seised.^ 

The third great holding in this place was in the soc of the Abbot of 
St. Edmunds, and under the abbot Godwin held a carucate of land. There 
were 3 villeins, 12 bordars, 1 ploughteam in demesne and 3 belonging to 
the tenants, wood sufficient for the support of 3 hogs, 2 acres of meadow, 
4 beasts, i hog, and 80 sheep. And a freeman and a half held 2 J acres of 
land by commendation, having i bordar, i ploughteam, and half an acre of 
meadow. 

This manor was valued at 605., and the freemen at 4s. 8^.^ 
The only other holdings mentioned in the Survey in this place were a 
villein Uluric, with 20 acres and half a ploughteam, under Gilbert the Engineer,* 
and one under the head of invasions upon the King, where it is noted 2 
freemen, Norman held Ketel, with 18 acres and a half ploughteam, valued at 
3s., which it is stated Berengar, Saint Edmund's man, invaded, and was in 
the King's mercy. He was sick, and could not come to plea, and at the 
time of the Survey the lands were in the Sheriff's custody.' 



Uggeshall Manor. 

The three manors of Domesday appear to have coalesced, the main 
holding of Earl Hugh overshading the others. In 1239 it was held by Peter 
fitz Roger, and in 1275 by his son, Roger fitz Peter Osbert, of Somerleyton, 
who had both the lordship and advowson.^ He claimed free warren, view 
of frankpledge, and assize of bread and beer here in the time of Edw. 17 

He was summoned to Parliament in 1294. He appears to have married 
twice, ist Sarah, sister and heir of John de Creke, lord of Creke, co. Norfolk.^ 
His 2nd wife bore the name of Catherine. He died^ without issue about 



' Dom. ii. 2996. 

*Doni. ii. 3316. 

3 Dom. ii. 371 6. 

*Dom. ii. 4446. 

*Dom. ii. 449. 

6H.R. 147, 198- 

'H.R. ii. 148, 198; Q.W. 729. 



^ Banks supposes her to have been his ist 
wife, as Catherine was his widow, 
and amongst other lands held the 
Manor of Carleton, co. Norfolk, in 
dower. Blomefield, Norfolk.'ii. p. 46. 

9I.P.M., 34Edw. I. 58. 



UGGESHALL. 175 

1302/ leaving the manor and advowson to Catherine his wife for life^ upon 
whose decrease in 1338/ they devolved upon Isabella, eldest sister and 
coheir of the said Roger, and wife of Sir Walter Jernegan, of Stonham, 
Jernegan, Knt., and widow of Sir Henry de Walpole, ancestor of the Earls 
of Oxford. His sister and coheir Alice married Sir John Noyoun, Knt. 
whose son, Sir John, dying without issue her portion of the Fitz Osbert 
estates reverted to the Jernegans. 

It is said that Sir Peter Jernegan of Somerleyton, Knt., son of Isabella 
and Sir Walter Jernegan, succeeded on the death of his mother to this 
manor, as part of her share in the large possessions of the Fitz Osbert family, 
and in 1334 sold this manor to Sir Edmund de Sortelee or Sorterlee, Knt. 

It is difficult to see that he could have sold any more than the remainder 
or reversion, as Catherine the widow of Roger, son of Peter, son of Osbert, 
did not die till 1338. Probably the sale was somewhat later. But a fine 
of the manor and advowson, it is true, was levied as early as 1320, when the 
said Edmund de Sorterle was pit. and Peter Jernegan and John Noyoun, 
of Uggeshall, were deforciants,^ so this may have been the date of the passing 
of the property. 

The manor was no doubt at this time held of the Earl of Norfolk, as 
overlord, for we find on the Close Rolls in 1339 an order to the Escheator to 
deliver to Mary, late wife of Thomas, Earl of Norfolk, in dower 4 fees in 
UggeshaU, which the heirs of " Robert son of Osbert " held, extended at 
£20 yearly.* 

In 1343 Roger, son of Sir Edmund de Sotelee and Joan his wife, granted 
the whole of this manor to the lady Joan his mother for life, on the con- 
dition of her claiming no dower in the Manors of Sotterley in this county 
and Stody in Norfolk. Upon the Lady Joan's death the manor passed 
to Roger, and on his death to his son, Edmund de Sotelee, subject to his 
mother Joan's interest. 

Amongst the Additional Charters in the British Museum is the counter- 
part of an indenture made in 1378, whereby " Esmon de Soterlee " being 
about to make a pilgrimage to Rome, enfeoffed John de Argentein, Esmon 
de Well, parson of Beccles, William dil Hill, parson of Soterlee, and others, 
in his manor and advowson of Uggeshall, directing them how in case of his 
death to settle his estate for the benefit of Margaret his wife, and of Roberd, 
Roger, Thomas, Esmon, and Elizabeth, his children,^ in order to secure the 
manor and advowson of Soterlee, according to the entail. The deed is 
dated the Tuesday after S. Peter in Cath. i Rich. II., and is in French with 
six seals.® 

Edmund de Sotelee died about 1380, when the manor was enjoyed by 
his widow Margaret,^ and subsequently by their son and heir Robert. "^ 
By indenture dated the Saturday after the feast of St. Michael the Arch- 
angel, 9 Rich. II. [1385] William Joce and William dil Hill, parson of the 
Church of Sotterley, no doubt the surviving trustees under the above 
assurance, granted to Robert, son of Edmund de Soterlee, the manor and 
the advowson in fee tail with remainders over.' 

' See Manor of Somerleyton, in Lothingland ^ Add. Ch. 10,376. 

Hundred (see I.P.M., 30 Edw. I. ^I.P.M., 6 Rich. II. 49. 

1194 ; 36 Edw. I. ix. ^ It is however said that Joan, the widow 

^ I.P.M., 12 Edw. III. 15. of Sir Edmund de Soterlee did not 

3 Feet of Fines, 14 Edw. II. 8. die until 1384. 

* Close Rolls, 13 Edw. III. pt. i. 33. ^Add. Ch. 10380. 
'A son, Walter, seems to be omitted. 



176 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

The manor was then held as of the Castle of Framlingham. Robert 
de Soterlee died in 1403/ when the manor passed to his brother Walter 
Soterlee, who had to provide aid for the marriage of the eldest daughter of 
the King in respect of this manor in 1403/ 

Walter died in 1408, and the manor passed to his son and heir Edmund^ 
who died the same year without issue/ leaving his brother and heir Thomas 
an infant, for we find on the Pat. Rolls, 3 Hen. VI., that a presentation 
was made to the living by the King by reason of his having custody of the 
heir of Walter " Sotevile," who died holding a knight's service of John^ 
Earl Marshall, then a minor, tenant in chief of Hen. IV."* 

The infant, Thomas Soterlee, proved his age in 1429,' and died in 
1468,^ but this manor is not mentioned in his inquisition post mortem. 
We next find the manor vested in Thomas Playters'' of Sotterley, who died 
2ist Sept. 1479.^ He lies buried in Sotterley Church towards the upper 
end of the chancel, where, on a large gravestone with two full proportioned 
pictures in brass is this inscription : — 

" Orate per Animabus Thome Playters, Armigeri, nuper 
hujus Ecclesiae Pat roni, et Anne, Uxoris ejus, et Sororiset Heredis, 
Roger Denay, nuper de Tadington, Armigeri, qui quidem Thomas, 
obiit xxi. Die Mensis Septembris, Anno M.CCCC.LXXIX. et 
predicta Anna, obiit x Die mensis Octobris, ex tunc prox. sequent. 
Quorum Animabus propitietur Deus, Amen." 

By Anne, sister and heir of Roger Denny, of Tadington, he left issue 
William Playters, son and heir, who succeeded, and died 11 Nov. 1512,^ 
and is also buried in Sotterley Church under a tomb of free stone, covered 
with marble, with this inscription in brass : — 

" Here lyeth buried the Body of William Playters Esquire, 
Sonne and Heire to Thomas and Anne his wife, who married 
Jane, daughter to Sir Edmund Jenny of Knotshall, Knight, by 
whom he had issue divers children, and died the xi Day of 
November, Anno M.D.XH." 

He had five sons, four of whom died unmarried, and Christopher, who 
succeeded his father, and died nth Sept. 1547," seised of the Manors of 
Sotterley, Uggeshall, and Bruisyard, and was buried in Sotterley chancel, 
where there is a tomb with effigies of a man cut in brass, and this inscription 
at his feet : — 

" Here under lyeth buried the Body of Christopher Playters, 
Esquire, true Patron of this Church, Sonne and Heire to WilUam, 
and Jane, his Wife, who had two Wives, videlicet, Dorothy, one 
of the Daughters and Heires of William Aselak, of Carrow, in 
the County of Norfolke, Esquire, by whom he had issue, Thomas ; 
and by Anne, Daughter to William Read, of Becles, Esquire, he 
had issue seven Sonnes and foure Daughters, and he died in the 
yeare of our Lord God, M.D.XLVH." 

'I. P.M., 4 Hen. IV. 30. ''See Manor of Sotterley, in Wangford 

""M. 4 Hen. IV. Pas. Rec. Rot. 17. Hundred. 

3I.P.M., I Hen. V. 42; 7 Hen. VI. 10. ^ipj^f^ j^ g^j^ jy g2. 

*Pat. Rolls, 3 Hen. VI. 6. '? 23th Dec, 15 16 (I.P.M.,9Hen. VIII.84). 

5I.P.M., 7 Hen. VI. 10. '"I.P.M. 2 Edw. VI. 66. 

6I.P.M., 7 Edw. IV. 33. 



UGGESHALL. 177 

He married ist Dorothy, sister and coheir to WiUiam Aslack, of Carrow, 
CO. Norfolk, by whom he had one son, Thomas ; 2ndly Anne, daughter of 
WilHam Read, of Beccles, by whom he had several children. 

Thomas, his son and heir, died gth Sept. 1572, seised of the Manors 
of EUough, Uggeshall, and Sotterley, and lands in those and other 
towns in Suffolk ; and by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Sir Thomas 
Jermyn, of Rushbrooke, Knt., and Anne his wife, daughter of Thomas 
Spring, of Lavenham, had, with other issue, William Playters, of Sotterley, 
who held the Manor of EUough, Uggeshall Manor and advowson, Sotterley 
Manor and advowson, with lands in divers towns in Suffolk, half the Manor 
of Berrys, alias Holkham, in Norfolk, the Manor of Scotts, in Essex, and 
died 6th June, 1584, and was buried 12th June in Sotterley Church. 

He married four times — ist Thomasine, daughter of George Duke, of 
Frense ; 2ndly, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Timperley, of Hintlesham, 
(by Audrey, his wife, daughter of Sir Nicholas Hare, Knt., Master of the 
Rolls) ; 3rdly Thomasine, daughter and coheir of Edmund Tirrell, of Beches, 
CO. Essex ; and 4thly Mary, daughter and coheir of William Drake, of 
Hardley, co. Norfolk ; two of which left no male issue, and the issue of the 
fourth failed after two descents,' but by his 2nd wife, Elizabeth Timperley, 
he had issue. 

Sir Thomas Playters, High Sheriff of Suffolk, 1605, was knighted at 
Newmarket 19th Oct. 1606, and advanced to the dignity of a Baronet 
13th Aug. 1623. 

This Sir Thomas Playters married twice, ist Ann, daughter of Sir 
William Swan, of Southfleet, co. Kent, Knt., by whom he had Sir William, 
his successor. Sir Thomas's 2nd wife was Anne, daughter of Sir Anthony 
Browne, of Elsing, co. Norfolk, Knt., by whom he had several children, 
amongst others Sir Lyonel. Sir Thomas died i8th May, 1638, in his 73rd 
year,^ and was succeeded in dignity and estate by his eldest son by the first 
marriage. 

Sir William Playters, 2nd Bart., who was deputy-lieutenant, Vice- 
Admiral of the county of Suffolk, and Colonel of a regiment of foot till 
turned out by the rebels, married, i6th July, 1615, Frances, daughter and 
heir of Christopher Le Guys, of Billingford, co. Norfolk, by whom he had 
an only son Thomas, often erroneously stated to have been his father's 
successor and 3rd Bart., but who actually died 17 years before his father. He 
was made Colonel of a regiment of Cuirassiers in behalf of Charles L, by 
commission dated at Oxford, 29th July, 19 Car. I., and also was Admiral 
of six English ships, the Eagle, Lion, Spanhee, Hunter, Fortune, and another 
commissioned by Don Juan of Austria in 1650.^ 

He married Rebecca, daughter and coheir of Thomas Chapman, of 
Wormley, co. Hertford (who surviving him was first remarried to Richard 
Lucy, a younger branch of the Lucys of Charlecote, co. Warw., and after- 
wards to Sir Rowland Lytton, of Knebworth, co. Hertford, Knt.), by whom 
he had no issue and died at Messina, in Sicily, 1651,* aged 35. 

' By his first wife he had a son, Drake the church of Hardley, in the 

WilUam Playters, who married chancel whereof is a brass plate to 

Catherine, daughter of Sir Lionel his memory. He had issue four 

Talmarsh, of Helmingham, Bart., sons and two daughters. 

and was father of Talmash Playters. ^ Will 2nd Jan. 1637, proved ist June, 1638. 

Drake William Playters was lord of ^ His commission was dated at Messina, 

Hardley, co. Norfolk, and died the 26th April, 1650. 

5th March, 1632, and is buried in ''Willist Aug. 1649, proved 24th Sept. 1651 



178 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

Sir William Playter's lady lies buried in the chancel of Dickelburgh 
Churchj in Norfolk (according to her desire), with this inscription over her :— 

" Here under lyeth buried the Body of Dame Frances Playters, 
the Daughter and Heir of Chr. Le Grys, of Billingford, in 
Norff.j Esq. She marryed Sir Will. Playters, of Satterley, in 
Sufif., Knt. and Bart., sometimes one of the Deputie Lieu- 
tenants and Vice Adm. of the sd. County, and Justice of the 
Peace & Quorum, & Coll. of a Regiment of Foot, till turn'd out of all 
by the then Rebellious Parliament. She had by him only 
Thomas, who married with Rebeccha, Daughter and Coheir of 
Thomas Chapman, of Woormly, in the County of Hartford, Esq. 
a great Traveller ; high sheriff for the County of Suff. by Com- 
mission from his late Majesty of blessed Memory, 1646, and by his 
Commission, raised a Regiment of Horse at Oxford. In Cicily, 
had the command of a Squadron of 6 ships ; dyed at Messina, 
1651, Aged about 35 years, leaving no Issue. The said Dame 
Frances died at Billingford hall, 9 Sept. 1659, ^^^ by her desire 
buried in this Church." 

Sir William Playters died and was buried at Sotterley, 24th April, 1668,' 
and was succeeded by his brother of the half blood and heir male, Sir 
Lyonel, only surviving son of Sir Thomas, ist Bart., by his second marriage, 
which Sir Lyonel, when the title and estate came to him, was rector of 
Uggeshall, and of whom Mr. Walker says : " His troubles began with the 
rebellion ; for in 1642 they brake open his stable-doors, plundered him of 
two very good horses ; and when he had the confidence to demand by what 
authority they did it, they replyed. Pistol, the parson; and fired two or 
more pistols at him. June 20, 1644, articles were exhibited against him 
before the sequestrators, under the Earl of Manchester ; the substance of 
which, as entered in the proceedings of those sequestrators, was his observing 
the rules and orders prescribed by the church, preaching up submission to 
his majesty, inveighing earnestly against the rebellion, refusing the covenant, 
keeping company with one who afterwards, as it was reported, went to 
the cavalier, popish army, and saying that he had a parcel of hemp to sell, 
and hoped it would bear a good price, because, if the times continued, a 
great many would want hanging ; and that rather than fail, he would give 
it to the king to hang up the round-heads. 

"The sentence of sequestration passed upon him the same day the 
articles were exhibited. On the 24th July following, it was served upon him, 
when Mr. Playters asking the sequestrators what time they would give 
him to remove his family, they answered him, not an hour's time ; and 
accordingly, himself, his wife, and four children were turned out of doors. 
The 30th of the same month they entered on the parsonage barn, the tithe- 
hay, and corn therein ; as likewise upon the glebe (part of which was sown 
with barley, flax, pease, and other grain, with a crop of grass ready to be 
cut), and upon all the tithe of the parish not then gathered in : all which 
they seized into their own hands, and converted to their own use for two 
years together, without ever giving any account, or paying Mr. Playters 
the fifths out of it ; but instead of that, they took care to levy the taxes 
of the months of May and June upon him, notwithstanding they had 
seiz'd almost the whole produce of that year, either in his barns or in the 
fields. Besides which, the poor gentleman had another misfortune befel 

' Will 6th April, proved 28th May, 1668. 



UGGESHALL. 179 

him ; for having buried several of his children in the chancel, he hid in one 
of their graves, on prospect, without question, of those troubles which 
afterwards came upon him, about 200 pieces of gold, which these godly 
reformers, as they were tearing up the rails, and levelling the chancel, 
happened to discover ; and, as zealous as they were against superstition and 
idolatry, made no conscience of committing a robbery very near allyed 
to sacrilege, carrying away every penny of it. He had likewise a temporal 
estate of about 200X a year, which they either put under sequestration, 
or what was as bad, forbid the tenants paying the rent ; whereupon some 
of them quitted their farms, and although by that means the estates lay 
untenanted for two years together, yet they compelled him to pay the 
taxes even of those unoccupied estates. About the year 1646, one Henry 
Younger succeeded in the Hving ; but it pleased God that Mr. Playters 
lived to receive it of him again, on the Restoration, and enjoyed his living, 
as well as the title and estate of his family, for many years after, and con- 
stantly preached in his church till the day of his death. He was a person 
of a meek and peaceable temper, and of a regular conversation.'" 

Interesting memoranda of Sir Lyonel Playters relating to the con- 
dition of the church in the seventeenth century, and in connection with 
certain common place books, will be found in the East Anglian Notes and 
Queries.^ 

Sir Lyonel married Elizabeth, daughter of John Warner, of Brandon, 
CO. Norfolk,^ and had with other issue Sir John, his successor, and Sir 
Lyonel, successor to his brother ; and dying 5th Oct., 1679,'* was succeeded 
by his eldest son. Sir John Playters, 4th Bart., who was twice married, 
ist 31 Jan. 1662-3, to Jane, daughter of Thomas Read, of Bardwell,' by 
whom he had no issue, 2ndly to Isabel, daughter and sole heir of Thomas 
Hall, of London, by whom he had issue one son, and a daughter, who both 
died young. Sir John died without issue, was buried at Sotterley 31st 
Dec. 1720, when he was succeeded by his nephew. Sir John Playters, 5th 
Bart., eldest son and heir of Sir Lyonel Playters, of Ellough, by Martha his 
wife, daughter of Talmash Castel, of Raveningham, co. Norfolk, which 
Lyonel was buried at Sotterley i6th Sept. 1699. The 5th Bart, was High 
Sheriff of Suffolk 1727-28, and 2nd Aug. 1710, married Elizabeth, daughter 
and heir of John Felton, of Worlingham, brother to Sir John Felton, Bart. 

He sold the manor to Sir John Rous, the 2nd Bart, of the family, who 
died in 1730, from whom the same has descended in a like course with the 
Manor of Henham, in this Hundred, and is now vested in the present Earl 
of Stradbroke. 

Arms of FiTZ Osbert : Gules, three bars, gemelle. Or, and a canton, 
Argent. Of Sotterley : Gules, a fesse between three round buckles, 
Argent. Of Playters : Bendy wavy of six, Argent and Azure. 



' Wooton's Baronetage, vol. i., p. 542. * Will 20th Dec. 1694, proved 28th July, 

^Vol. vii., p. 207. 1699. 

3 She died Sept. 1699. ' She died the 30th Nov. 1665. 



i8o 



THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 





WALBERSWICK MANOR. 

JHIS manor has always passed with the Manor of Blyth- 
burgh, and the lords are therefore the same. Walberswick 
or Walderswick is a hamlet of Blythburgh, and was 
formerly populous and wealthy, its church being specially 
held in high esteem. As trade decreasd at Dunwich by the 
alteration of that port, a proportionate increase took place 
at this port, and at one time it had a considerable com- 
mercial connection with other ports. In consequence however, of the 
decay of its fishery, and other adverse circumstances, the town has ceased 
to possess any importance. 

WALPOLE. 

MANOR is not mentioned by name here, but the lordship of 
the place was undoubtedly in Earl Alan at the time of the 
Domesday Survey. In Walpole in the time of the Confessor 
were 7 freemen by commendation and soc and sac, having 
4 carucates of land and 90 acres. There were then 11 viUeins, 
6 bordars, 10 ploughteams belonging to the tenants, and 6 
acres of meadow. There was also wood sufficient for 30 
hogs. By the time of the Great Survey the freemen holding were 17, but 
the villeins had come down to 6, and the bordars to 5, while the plough- 
teams had diminished to 6. 

The extent of this holding of Earl Alan's was 12 quarantenes long and 
II broad, and it paid in a gelt y^d. It was included in the valuation of 
Bramfield, and the King and the Earl had the soc. There was also a church 
with 16 acres and half an acre of meadow, valued at i2d. The Survey 
mentions that others had holdings here.' 

Manor of Walpole. 

The lordship of the place passed to Robert Malet, and on his death 
vested in his widow Pelintha in dower. In 1253 we find it still in the family, 
for two parts were held in dower by JuHana, widow of Geoffrey Tenger, she 
being one of the heirs of Robert Malet. 

The manor possibly passed to the de Vallibus family, for we find in 
1271 free warren here granted to John, son of Alexander de Vallibus,^ 
and that John de Vallibus died seised of land here in 1288,^ and had bortrem 
and held a turn also in this place, which the Sheriff and Bailiff of the Kmg 
were wont to hold.'* 

In 13 II we find the lordship vested in Walter de Norwich, Baron of the 
Exchequer, who in that year obtained free warren of all his demesne lands 
in this parish.' From this time to the time of Wm. de Ufford, 2nd Earl of 
Suffolk, the manor passed in the same course as the Manor of Dalham, in 
Risbridge Hundred.^ 

This manor, however, appears to have been sold, for we find it shortly 
after the death of John de Norwich, 2nd Baron, in 1374 vested in Sir Robert 
Carbonell, Knt., who died in 1397.^ 



' Dom. ii. 2926. 

'Chart. Rolls, 55 Hen. III. 10. 

3I.P.M., 16 Edw. I. 41. 

*H.R. ii. 147, 197. 

5 Chart. Rolls, 5 Edw. II. 44. 



^See also Manor of Parham Hall, in 
Plomesgate Hundred, and Manor of 
Mettingham Castle, in Wangford 
Hundred. 

7I.P.M.,2i Rich. II. 14. Robert Carbonell 
and Margaret his wife. 



WALPOLE. i8i 

On Sir Robert's death' the manor passed to his son and heir, Sir John, 
and on his death about 1425 to his son and heir, Sir Richard Carbonel, Knt., 
who died in 1429. He does not seem to have had the whole manor, or 
possibly there was a sub-manor called "Walpole Chickering," which may 
have been the manor in which Richard le Scott, of Dunwich, had free warren 
in 1265/ for in the time of Hen. VI. we meet with land, or half of the manor 
(as the inquisition puts it), given by William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, 
to the Master of the Chantry in Wingfield Church,^ and in a suit in the 
Star Chamber in the time of Hen. VHI., between Algarth and Coke, the 
Manor of " Walpole Chickering " is said to have been the inheritance of 
William Whytyng." 

The Manor of Walpole was certainly vested in Sir John Heveningham, 
Knt., who died seised in 1453, from which time the devolution of the manor is 
identical with that of the Manor of Heveningham, in this Hundred, and is 
now vested in the present Lord Huntingfield. 

Collections touching town and manor of Walpole will be found in the 
Bodleian,^ and in the Brit. Mus.^ ; also extracts from a Court Roll in 1502 
in the last-mentioned place. ^ A rental of Walpole Manor, 29th Sept. 1682, 
is given in the Davy MSS.* The rents then amounted to £17. los. i\d. 

Manor of Chickering. 

In the middle of the 13th century this manor was vested in William 
de Royng, and on his death about 1289 passed to his daughter Petronilla, 
wife of Sir Robert Rose. It is doubtful whether it subsequently passed to 
WiUiam de Chickering, or was granted by Sir Robert Rose to Sir Robert de 
Ilketshall, Knt., and others, probably as trustees, for we find Edmund 
Rose releasing it in 1387 to Sir Robert Carbonel, Knt., Robert Hotot and 
others. The next dealing we meet with is the grant of the manor (as we 
have already suggested) under the form of half the Manor of Walpole, by 
WiUiam de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, in the time of Hen. VI. to the Chantry 
of the College of Wingfield, from which it passed on the Dissolu- 
tion to the Crown. 

In 1535 (Dec. 4th) a lease of the manor was granted by the Crown to 
John Fisic for the term of 99 years at a rent of £6. 13s. 4^., and the manor 
itself was apparently granted in fee by the Crown to Giles Bridges and 
Robert Harreys by letters patent dated 29th Aug. 1544. In a suit in the 
Star Chamber in the time of Hen. VIII., there is a statement that this 
manor was the inheritance of William Whytyng deceased.^ 

In 1597 we find it vested in Sir Arthur Heveningham, who died in 1630, 
having been granted in 1587 by Edward Heron and John Nicholas to Sir 
Thomas Gawdy, Knt., and Theophilus Adams as trustees. It possibly 
descended in a like way as the main manor, certainly since 1764 the lords 
have been the same. 

A copy of the conveyance of the manor from the executors of Tobias 
Bence to George Dashwood, with the rest of the Heveningham Hall estates, 
is under Kelsale Manor deeds in the Davy MSS. 

' See Manor of Studhagh, Laxfield, in ^ Bodl. 4180. 

Hoxne Hundred and Badingham ^Harl. 639. 

Hall, Hoxne. ''Add. Ch. 17259. 

' Chart. Rolls, 49 Hen. IH. 6. ^ Add. MSS. 19083, p. 50. 

3I.P.M., il. Hen. VI. C. 62. » Algarth v. Cole, Star C.P. Hen. VHI., 
*Star C.P. Hen. VIH. Bundle 33, 35. Bundle 33, 35- 




182 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

WANGFORD. 

I HIS was held by Ralph Baynard at the time of the Norman 
Survey. In the Confessor's time Toret had held the manor 
with 2 carucates of land, having 8 villeins, 13 bordars, 2 
serfs, 2 ploughteams in demesne, and 8 belonging to the 
tenants. 

There was wood sufficient for the support of 60 hogs, 
and there were 2 acres of meadow, a mill, a salt pan, 2 
rouncies, 24 beasts, 35 hogs, 100 sheep, 8 goats, and 5 hives of bees. By the 
time of the Survey the bordars had increased to 21, but the serfs seem to 
have disappeared, as had also the salt pan and the rouncies. The beasts 
had come down to 17, the hogs to a like figure, and the sheep to 80. The 
manor was valued at £4, and was then held by Albold of Ralph Baynard. 
The length of the manor was a league and a quarantene, and the breadth 
9 quarantenes, and it paid in a gelt yd. The Survey adds, " Others have 
holdings therein. The King and the Earl have the 6 forfeitures.'" 

Amongst the lands of the King kept in hand for him by Roger Bigot 
but enumerated under the Half Hundred of Lothingland, is an estate of 
60 acres in this place, said to be in the Hamlet of Melga and in Willingham, 
with 3 villeins, a ploughteam, and wood sufficient for the maintenance of 
40 hogs.^ 

Wangford Manor. 

To Toret the Saxon succeeded Ralph Bainard the Norman, and the 
manor probably passed at the latter's decease to his widow, Juga Bainard, 
who had it in 1104, and in 1106 it passed to Jeffrey Bainard, her son and 
heir, who was a great benefactor to St. Mary's Abbey at York. He was 
succeeded by his son and heir, WiUiam Bainard, who taking part with Helia, 
Earl of Main, Philip de Brasse, William Malet, and other conspirators 
against Hen. I., lost (as mentioned in the account of Shimpling Manor, in 
Babergh Hundred) his barony. 

The manor was on its forfeiture probably granted to Dondo or Dodo 
Assini Dapifer, a steward to the King's household, as he granted the same 
for the foundation of Wangford Priory in 11 60. Weever styles the founder 
Eudo Ansered, of France, but Tanner questions whether he is not the same 
with Eudo Dapifer, the founder of St. John's at Colchester. Richard 
Fitz William confirmed all the gifts of his grandfather Dodo and Sir Geraline 
de Vernun, Knt., and those of his father Ansered. 

Taylor, in his " Index Monasticus " (p. 91) questions whether the Dondo 
Assini, of Leland, and the Eudo Ansered, of Weever, cannot be reconciled 
to mean the same person with Ansered, father of Sir Geraline Vernun and 
Dodo, grandfather of Richard fitz William. 

Being at first an alien priory subordinate to the Abbey of the Cluniac 
order in Thetford,^ it was often seized during the wars, till at length it was 
made denizen in 1393, but subordinate to Thetford as before. 

At the suppression of the religious houses the manor was first surren- 
dered to Thetford Priory,'* and then passed to the Crown, after which it 
was in 1540 granted to Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk.' 

' Dom. ii. 4146. will be found in the P.R.O. (Bundle 

^Dom. ii. 283&. 1127, No. 4). 

3 Pat. Rolls, I Edw. II. pt. i. 18. Ministers' +1540 S.P. 32 Hen. VIII. 211. 

accounts of the Priory, 15 Edw. III. ' 1540 S.P. 942 (43). 



WANGFORD. 183 

Of course, on the attainder of the Duke in January, 1546-7, the manor 
again went to the Crown, but was in 1553 restored to the Duke.' 

On his death in 1554 the manor passed to his grandson, Thomas 
Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, who was beheaded in 1572, when for the 3rd 
time the manor went to the Crown, but was in 1603 restored to Thomas 
Lord Howard, afterwards Earl of Norfolk, grandson of the late Duke, Henry, 
Lord Howard. 

A few years later, in 161 2, the last-named Thomas, afterwards Earl 
of Norfolk^ but then Earl of Arundel and Surrey, had licence to alienate the 
manor to Sir John Rous, Knt., and Sir Henry Yelverton. Sir John Rous 
died seised in 1652, when it went to his son and heir. Sir John Rous, the 
ist Bart., from whom the manor has descended in the same course as the 
Manor of Henham, in this Hundred, and is now vested in the present Earl 
of Stradbroke. 



'See Manor of Framlingham, in Loes 'He was created Earl of Arundel and 
Hundred. Surrey before 6th July, 1603, but 

not Earl of Norfolk until 6th June, 
1644. 




i84 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

WENHASTON. 

|HE entry in the Domesday Survey is linked with Thorington, 
and we are told that Earl Alan held here 6 freemen, with 2 
carucates and a half of land. Also that there were 3 
villeins, 16 bordars, 5 ploughteams, 4 acres of meadow, 
wood sufficient for 16 hogs, i mill, and a church with 10 
acres of free land and half an acre of meadow.' 

There were later two manors here, one known as Wen- 
has ton Manor, and the other as the Manor of Wenhaston Grange. 

Wenhaston Manor. 

The early devolution of this manor is probably identical with Walpole 
Manor, in this Hundred. In 1271 John, son of Alexander de Vallibus, 
exercised manorial rights here, and had a grant of free warren.^ He died 
in 1288.^ 

In 1312 the manor was vested in Sir John de Norwich, Knt., who also 
had a grant of free warren this year here.* On his death in 1316 the manor 
passed to Sir Walter de Norwich, one of the Barons of the Exchequer.' 

On the Close Rolls in 1326 we find a release by Sarah de Brok, late wife 
of Peter de Brok, of Wysett, one of the daughters of Sir Peter de Melles, of 
lands in Wenhaston, to this Sir Walter de Norwich.^ Probably these lands 
were held with the manor in the hands of the grantee, and may have given 
the name of "Mells" to this manor, under which title it seems to be men- 
tioned in Taylor's " Monastica." 

Sir Walter died in 1326, from which time to the time of his great-grand- 
son. Sir John de Norwich, the manor passed in the same course as the Manor 
of Dalham, in Risbridge Hundred, and the Manor of Mettingham Castle, 
in Wangford Hundred. John de Norwich,^ 2nd Baron, founded Ravening- 
ham College, and endowed it with the manor in 1373, the year before his 
death without issue,^ leaving his cousin Katherine De Brews, daughter 
and heir of Thomas de Norwich, his great-uncle, his heir, who in 1375 
released the manor or aU her right therein to Lord John de Norwich and 
others for the use of Mettmgham College.^ 

The College of Mettingham was not however founded until seven 
years later, when Sir John Plazs, Sir Robert Howard, Sir Roger Boys, Knts., 
John Wolferton and Elyas Bynte, clerks, executors of the will of Sir John 
de Norwich, Knt., obtained the King's licence to translate the priests of 
Raveningham College to the castle of Mettingham, and to endow them 
with the said castle and several manors in Suffolk.'" 

The translation, being retarded principally by the opposition of the 
nuns of Bungay, was not fully effected till the year 1393. 

'Dom. li. 2926. "I.P.M., 48 Edw. III. 52. 

== Chart. Rolls, 55 Hen. III. 10. sHarl. MSS. 971, p. 177. 

3 1. P.M., 16 Edw. I, 41. i°One messuage, 40 acres of land, 2 of 

■* Chart Rolls, 5 Edw. II. 44. meadow, and I mill in Wenhaston. 

5 See Manor of Mettingham Castle, in John Plaze and others for 8 chap- 

Wangford Hundred. lains in Chantry of Raveningham, 

6 Close Rolls, 20 Edw. II. X4d. I.P.M., 5 Rich. II. 88. 
^His grandfather had a grant of free 

warren in Wenhaston in 1357 

(Chart Rolls, 31 Edw. III. 2). 



WENHASTON. 185 

Blomefield, the historian of the County of Norfolk, informs us that in 
the 6 Hen. VI. [1428] Robert Sampson and Elizabeth his wife released all 
their right in this and certain other manors, and in all lands late of Sir 
Robert Swillington, to John Hopton in fee, and certainly in 1537 we meet 
with a fine levied of this manor and the manors of Thorington and Westhall 
by Thomas Pope against Arthur Hopton.' 

At the Dissolution, the manor vested in the Crown, and in 1541 was 
granted to Sir Thomas Denny and Sir Anthony Denny. They were 
father and son. Sir Anthony died 5th Sept. 1550,' when his son and heir 
Sir Henry Denny succeeded to the lordship.' We do not find much respect- 
ing this manor subsequently. Davy gives the following information, 
which, to say the least, is not very inspiring : " 166 — Sir John Pettus pur- 
chases a manor here, whether this or the other ? He sold it again." As a 
matter of fact, however, Sir Henry Denny sold the manor in 1563 to 
Nicholas Bacon.* In 1620 the manor was held by Richard Lovelace. 

Court Rolls of the manor will be found in the Public Record Office.' 
The manor seems to have been included in the I. P.M. of Robert Garneys, 
who died 14th May, 1515, leaving John Garneys, his son and heir' and a 
fine was levied of the manor in 1620.' 

Manor of Wenhaston Grange. 

This seems to have belonged to the Abbey of Sibton. The abbot in 
1251 had a quarter of a fee here, and his possessions in Wenhaston are 
mentioned in 1322. Amongst the Additional MSS. in the British Museum 
will be found an extent of the lands in Wenhaston belonging to the abbey 
in 1325-6,' and deeds of the Abbey of Sibton relating to lands in Wenhaston 
will be found amongst the Rawlinson MSS. in the Bodleian.' 

In the time of Hen. VIII., Page, quoting from Wake, informs us that 
the Abbot of Sibton granted the manor to Thomas Daly, of Norfolk. The 
information seems rather vague on the face, as Norfolk is a somewhat 
extensive county, and the name Daly is not uncommon there. 

We would suggest the sale was in truth to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, 
and not to one Daly — possibly the printer was misled. The manor in 1609 
seems to have been vested in Sir Francis Clere, Knt., and in 1800'° was pur- 
chased by John Dresser, and was later vested in Robert Sparrow, of Worling- 
ham, and subsequently in Charles Day. 



' Fine, Hil. 29 Hen. VIII. sRawl. B. 421. 

^I.P.M., i6th April, 4 Edw. VI. 105. "The manor was offered by public auction 

3 See Manor of Ilketshall, in Wangford 24th June, 1800, at the Angel, 

Hundred, for which see also arms Halesworth, with the Manor of 

of Denny. Thorington Hall, the yearly rents of 

*Fine, Trin. 5 Eliz. the two, with the fines taken on an 

5 Portfolio, 203, 7. average of 22 years, amounting to 

^I.P.M., 7 Hen. VIII. 114. £32. is. lo^rf. Ipswich Journal, zi^i 

''KM. Ch. 13700. May, 1800. 
8 Add. MSS. 34560. 



186 



THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 




WESTHALL HALL MANOR. 

|HE three manors in Westhall are Westhall Hall, Empole's, 
and Barrington's. Westhall does not appear in the 
Domesday Survey. The main manor, that of Westhall 
Hall, was in the Crown in the time of King John,' who 
appears to have made a grant of the town of Westhall to 
Nicholas de Donewic or of Dunwich,° and on the Close 
Rolls for 1 215 we find an order to give seisin of the 
same accordingly to the said Nicholas de Dunwich.^ 

The grant of the town, according to the Hundred Rolls, included the 
manor, though it is not easy to understand an entry on the Close Rolls in 
1221, which seems to limit a rent out of the manor in favour of Nicholas de 
Dunwic, which could not well have been done if he held then the manor, 
for a man cannot have a rent issuing out of his own land or manor. The 
entry on the Close Rolls is a pardon for good and faithful services to this 
Nicholas, son of Robert de Dunewic, of ;£i6, annual rent out of the manor.* 

It is not unlikely that the entry may have meant no more than that 
the Crown having granted the manor originally subject to this annual rent 
of £16, in 1221 released the same in favour of the lord. Nicholas is said to 
have sold the manor to Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent,^ who had a grant 
from Hen. HI. of the same by way of confirmation in 1243. There is 
however, a difficulty, that Testa de Nevill, though it states that the manor at 
the date of its confirmation was vested in Hubert de Burgh, states also 
that it was held in socage rent of £16 per annum.* 

On the Close Rolls in 1229 is the recital of a grant by the King to 
Hubert de Burgh of the manor to hold " by service of half a knight's fee."^ 

He appears to have obtained the lordship in exchange for that of Camel, 
in Somersetshire, which he held of the grant of King John, and on his 
(de Burgh's) death in 1247, Westhall Hall Manor passed in dower to his 
widow Margaret, Countess of Kent, daughter of William, King of Scotland, 
and after her death to the Earl's son, John de Burgh, who gave the same 
to Richard de Belhus and Hugh le Parker in 1275.^ Either this grant 
was made to Richard de Belhus in trust for Hugh le Parker, or the latter 
subsequently acquired the whole manor, for he alone held manorial rights, 
according to the Hundred RoUs.^ On the Patent Rolls in 1273 we find an 
action between Helewsia, daughter of John de Towne, against this Hugh 
le Parker and Henry de Hampole (Empole), touching a tenement in Westhall. ' ° 



'T. de N. 294. 

''T. de N. 285. 

3 Close Rolls, 17 John, pt. i. 26. 

♦Close Rolls, 5 Hen. III. pt. i. 19. 

^An account of this celebrated man will 
be found in Nayland Manor, in 
Babergh Hundred. He was the son 
of John de Bourgh, son of William de 
Moreton, Earl of Cornwall, only son 
of Robert, Earl of Moreton, in 
Normandy (who distinguishing him- 
self at the Battle of Hastings was 
in 1068 created Earl of Cornwall) 
by Maud his wife, daughter of Roger 
de Montgomery, Earl of Shrews- 
bury. This Robert, Earl of Moreton, 
was brother of the celebrated 



Bishop of Bayeux, both being sons 
of Harlowen de Burgh by Arlotta, 
mother of William the Conqueror. 
Harlowen was son of John, Earl 
of Comyn and Baron of Tonsburgh, 
in Normandy, who obtained the 
surname of " De Burgh," and took 
as his motto, " Ung roy, ung foy, 
ung loy," from that of Caen, a 
chief town in his jurisdiction. 

"^T. de N. 283. 

^ Close Rolls, 13 Hen. III. 19 Schedule, 
18 Schedule. 

8 H.R., ii. 147, 197. 

9H.R., ii. 147. 

"° Pat. Rolls, 2 Edw. 1. 13, 9, 4. 



WESTHALL HALL. 



187 



On the death of Hugh le Parker his widow Avice or Avis remarried 
John de Sharington or Sharenton, and she held the manor in dower, the 
inheritance belonging to William, son and heir of Hugh le Parker. John 
de Sharenton and Avis his wife claimed view of frankpledge and assize 
of bread and beer here.' 

Wilham, son of Hugh le Parker, succeeded, but in 131 6 Robert Asphale 
held the lordship, and a little later it was vested in William Pannes de 
Naburne, who granted it in 1376 to his uncle. Sir Robert de Swillington,^ 
who died in 1391,^ when a third part of it passed to his widow Margaret in 
dower, and subject thereto vested in his son and heir, Robert de Swillington, 
and from this time to the time of Sir Owen Hopton the manor passed in the 
same course as the Manor of Brent fen in Middleton and Blythburgh Manor, 
in this Hundred. 

The manor is mentioned in the inquisition p.m. of Joan de Swillington, 
who died about 1428,* and in the inquisition p.m. of Sir George Hopton, 
who died 6th July,. 1490, is stated to be worth 10 marks, and to be held of 
Lady Thomasine Hopton, of the Manor of Wysett, by service of i2d. Lady 
Thomasine was the widow of Sir George. 

Sir George Hopton's heir was his son John, aged 2 at his father's death. 
John died 20th Jan. 1490-1, leaving Arthur Hopton aged 11, his brother 
and heir.^ 

A fine was levied of this manor and the Manors of Thorington and 
Wenhaston in 1537, by Thomas Pope against Arthur Hopton,® but this 
was evidently not on a sale, for the manor is specifically mentioned in the 
inquisition p.m. of Sir Anthony Hopton, who died 5th Aug. 1555.^ 

The manor then seems to have vested in William Roberts or Roberds, 
who sold it by deed 20th Sept. 1589, to Thomas Feltham, who conveyed it, 
with the " wind mill lately built," by deed 8th June, 1613, for £300, to 
Edmund Knevitt, who sold it for an annuity of £10, and a gross sum of 
£300 by deed, nth June, 1622, to Edmund Bohun, of Westhall, son of 
Nicholas Bohun. Edmund Bohun had married at Westhall, loth Jan. 
1614, Dorothy, daughter of Stephen Baxter, of Mendham, and on his death 
in Nov. 1658^ his son, Baxter Bohun, who had the 8th July, 1641, 
married Margaret, daughter of William (or Robert) Lawrence, of 
Brockdish, co. Norfolk, and died in bis father's lifetime, in Aug. 1658, 
the manor passed to his (Edmund's) grandson and heir, Edmund Bohun, 
the pohtical writer.^ He was born at Ringsfield, 12th March, 1644-5, 
and became a most voluminous author. He was the owner of Dale Hall, 
in Whitton, near Ipswich, and of lands in Brampton. 

He was admitted a fellow-commoner of Queen's College, Cambridge, 
where he remained about three years, though he took no degree. After- 
wards he resided for 14 years on his estate at Westhall. In 1684 the hope 
of some pubhc employment and other circumstances induced him to remove 
to London, where, devoting himself to literature as a profession, he continued 
to reside during the reign of James II. Mr. Bohun entertained ultra Tory 
opinions, and was equally averse to Dissenters and Catholics. " As for 
popery," he remarks, " I have so great an aversion for it that I never 



'Q.W. 723. 

^Harl. MSS. 1176, p. 120. 
3I.P.M., 15 Rich. II. pt. i. 61. 
*I.P.M., 6 Hen. VI. 52. 
5I.P.M., 5 Hen. VII. 589, 643. 
epine.Hil. 29 Hen. VIII. 



^I.P.M., 2 and 3 Ph. and M. 62. Mr. 
Rix says Nicholas Bohun purchased 
the Manor in 1535, and his son 
Francis built Westhall Hall in 1570. 

8 He was buried at Westhall l6th Nov. 

9D.N.B. V. 306. 



i88 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

willingly conversed with one of that rehgion ; and if God permits me to 
choose my company, I never will." 

However, he acquiesced in the Revolution, and in 1690 was appointed 
licenser of the press. This position was a difficult and a painful one. His 
known opinions and published writings laid him open to a strong suspicion 
of Jacobitism on the one hand, while his avowed allegiance to William and 
Mary exposed him, on the other hand, to a charge of gross inconsistency. 

Bohun held the of&ce only 5 months, his dismissal taking place under 
these circumstances : Several writers, Bishop Burnet among the rest, 
had urged that one ground upon which the scruples of the nonjurors might 
be removed was that William of Orange, while he had no hereditary right 
to the throne of England, and could not succeed to it even though it were 
vacated, yet had possessed himself of the monarchy by right of conquest ; 
and it had been held by the most loyal writers that conquest was a founda- 
tion of right. 

Bohun with the best intention gave his imprimatur to a pamphlet 
which adopted this line of argument. 

The doctrine, however, was peculiarly offensive to both parties, for 
William had expressly abjured the design of conquering this country ; and 
besides, all men felt it a deep dishonour to have been conquered. In 
1698 Mr. Bohun was appointed Chief Justice of South Carolina, where he 
died 5th Oct. 1699.' 

Among his pubUcations were : "A defence of Sir Robert Filmer 
against Algernon Sidney's paper delivered to the sheriffs upon the scaffold," 
1684 ; Filmer's " Patriacha," the second edition, corrected, with a preface 
and postscript, 1685 ; a translation of Jewel's Apology ; the " Method and 
Order of Reading Histories," translated and enlarged from the Latin of 
Degory Wheare, 1685 ; " An Apology for the Church of England against 
the clamours of the men of no conscience, or the Duke of Buckingham's 
seconds," 1685 ; " The Universal Historical BibHotheque : a translation of 
Le Clerc, for January, February, and March," 1686-7 ; "A Geographical 
Dictionary," 1688; "The General History of the Reformation," 1689; 
a translation from Sleidan, with a continuation to the end of the Council 
of Trent ; " The History of the Desertion of James H.," 1689 ; The Doctrine 
of non-resistance or passive obedience, no way concerned in the controversies 
between Williamites and Jacobites," 1689; "The present state of Germany," 
1690, translated from Puffendorf ; " The Character of Queen Ehzabeth 
and of her principal Ministers of State," 1693 ; Historical and geographical 
collections inserted in " The Great Historical, Geographical, and Poetical 
Dictionary," 1694; and Heylyn's Cosmography, with an historical continua- 
tion. "The Diary and Autobiography of Edmund Bohun, Esq., etc.," with an 
introductory memoir, notes, and illustrations by S. Wilton Rix, was privately 
printed at Beccles, 4to, 1853. 

Edmund Bohun was buried in Westhall Church, and the following 
inscription upon a brass there as given by Dawson Turner in a communica- 
tion to the Gentleman's Magazine in 1844 is too interesting to omit. It 
is as follows : — 

" Thomas Plantagenet, Duke of Buckingham and Glocester, sone of 
Kinge Edward the Third, marled Elioner, eldest daughter and heire of 
Homfry Bohun, erle of Hertford, Essex and Northampton, high constable 
of England, whose grandmother was a daughter of kinge Edward the first ; 

'See D.N.B. v. 306. Will pr. 19th Aug., 1701. 



WESTHALL HALL. 189 

the sayd Thomas and EHoner had issue a daughter, named Anne, sole heire. 
She was first maried to ye erle of Stafford, of whom discended the late 
dukes of Buckingham, and the lord Stafford that now is; secondly, she 
was maryed unto Sr. William Bourchier, earle of Ewe, by whom she had 
issue Henry, William, John, and Thomas. Thomas became a priest, 
and was archbishop of Canterburye ; of Henry discended the late earles 
of Essex and others ; of William is discended the earle of Bathe that now 
is : the aforenamed John maried the daughter and heire of the lord 
Barners ; and they had issue Sr Homphry-Bourchier, who maried Elizabeth, 
daughter and sole heire of Sr Fredericke Tylney ; and they had issue John 
Bourchier. And the said Humphry died in the lyfe of his father, and 
therefore lived not to be lord Barners ; and the sayd John Bourchier, lord 
Barners, after the death of his grandfather maried Katherine, daughter of 
Sr John Haward, duke of Norfolk ; and the said lord Barners and 
Katherine had issue a daughter, named Jane, their sole heire ; she was 
maried to Edmund Knivit, serjeant porter of the house of kinge Henry 
the eighth ; and they had issue divers sonnes and daughters, wherof one, 
named Elizabeth, was maried unto Francis Bohun esqmre ; and they had 
issue Nicholas Bohun, that maried Audrie Cooke, sister to Sr Edward 
Cooke, attorney- generall to king James, and the said Nicholas died in the 
life of his father, leavinge behinde him, begotten of the bodie of the said 
Audrie, seaven children, all infants. Novemb. 16, 1602." 

Edmund Bohun had amongst others two children by his wife Mary, 
daughter of William Brampton, of Pulham St. Mary Magd. Norf., whom 
he married 26th July, 1669, viz., Edmund, born 25th March, 1672, and 
William. The manor passed to Edmund, who, however, died 13th Oct. 
1734, without issue, and was buried at Westhall, the manor passing to 
his brother and heir William. 

William Bohun was a Professor of Physic, and held his first court, nth 
June, 1742. He married Prudence, daughter of John Rabett, of Brainfield, 
and widow of John Browne, of Beccles (who had died ist June, 1732, at the 
early age of 22, leaving a son, Le Grice Browne, of Beccles), and by her had 
two children, William and Prudence. 

William died 12th April, 1743, when the manor passed to his son and 
heir, William Bohun, who held his first court this same year. He died 
unmarried at the age of 46, 29th Dec. 1780, and his sister Prudence having 
died 15th Dec. 1762, in her brother's lifetime, the manor passed by his 
will, dated nth June, 1760, to his half-brother, Le Grice Browne, who 
held his first court 7th June, 1783, and in 1787 assumed the name of Bohun, 
and died ist Dec. 1806, the manor passing to his son and heir, the Rev. 
John Francis Browne Bohun, who sold the manor to Alexander Adair, of 
Fhxton, who dying m 1834 the manor has since passed in the same course 
as the Manor of Cratfield Le Roos, in this Hundred, and is now vested in 
Capt. Sir Frederick Edward Shafto Adair, 4th Bart., of Flixton Hall, 
Bungay. 

Abstracts of the custom of the manor (i6th century) will be found 
amongst the Additional MSS. in the Brit. Mus.' 

The mansion-house of the Bohuns was larger than the size of their 
property in Westhall would seem to have warranted. 

It was an erection of the early part of the sixteenth century, a spacious 
square building, flanked at each corner with a small turret and entered by 

'Add. MSS. 31970. 



190 JHE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

Tudor archways, the whole of dull unsightly brick, and altogether destitute 
of any architectural pretensions. One half of it was taken down about the 
year 1808, and the remaining part reduced to the comparatively ignoble 
state of a respectable farm house, and a writer in 1844 observes that "it 
still retains too many decisive marks of its original character to be passed 
without attracting attention." 

Westhall Hall, with 296 acres of land, was offered for sale 4th June, 
1825, S'Hd not sold. It was again put up in 1829, and was sold for £14,000 
to the Hon. William Rous.' 

The Hall was rebuilt about i860, and now belongs to the Earl of 
Stradbroke. 

It is said that the custom of gavelkind prevails in this manor.^ 

Arms of Bohun : Gules, between an orle of martlets, Or, a crescent 
Erm. 

Manor of Empole's. 

This originally formed part of the holding of William le Parker, and 
his son Thomas le Parker released it to WiUiam de Empole, clerk, and 
John de Empole his brother. The Empole or Enepol (the form in which 
we occasionally meet the name) family held lands here prior to acquiring 
the manor, for on the Patent Rolls in 1274 we find an action between 
Helwisia, daughter of John de Toune against Hugh le Parker and Henry 
de Enepol touching a tenement in Westhall,^ and on the same Rolls in 1280 
we meet with an action by William de Cressingham, parson of the church of 
Westhall, against Henry de Enepol and others touching common of pasture 
in Westhall.* 

In 1328 Bartholomew Empole, clerk, and Jeffrey his brother exchanged 
all their lands here for lands in Somerton and elsewhere, with John Empole, 
son of John Empole, which John was succeeded by Thomas Empole, the 
last lord of the manor bearing that name. 

By deed dated " in fest. S. Hillarii," 9 Hen. IV. [1408] Nicholas 
Wychingham enfeoffed Sir John Heveningham, Knt., and Sir John Gemeye, 
Knt., William Apelyerd, Thomas Deschaleres, Henry Inglos, John Bernard 
Radulf, vicar of Uptone, and Robert Kent, as trustees,^ who conveyed the 
manor in 1423 to Thomas Crofts, of Shropham, and in 1453 it passed to his 
son and heir, Thomas, and the feoffees of his father conveyed the same to 
him. Two years later Thomas Crofts settled the manor on himself and his 
wife Joan for life and the life of the longer liver, and subject to their life 
interests to such uses as he might appoint by will, and by deed, ist Sept. 1472, 
the manor was duly conveyed to trustees in trust for the performance of 
the will of the said Thomas Crofts. 

Thomas Crofts, the son, by his will dated 20th April, 1474, gave the 
Manor of Empoles, with all his lands in Westhall except Chevers, to his wife, 
with remainder to Thomas Cause, son and heir of Richard Cause and 
Elizabeth his wife, who was testator's daughter, in fee. The manor 
accordingly on Thomas's death passed to his widow Joan for life, and on 
her death in 1478'^ to Thomas Cause and Elizabeth his wife, from whom it 

^Ipswich Journal, Jan. 24th, 1829, " It is ^Pat. Rolls, 2 Edw. I. I3, 9, 4. 

since said that there is a defect in '*Pat. Rolls, 8 Edw. I. lod. 

the title, and that Mr. Rous has ^Harl. 58 C. 32. 

given up the purchase." ^Will 12th June, 1477, proved 5th July, 
'See E.A. iv. 180. 1478- 



WESTHALL HALL. 191 

devolved on Elizabeth, their daughter and heir who married John Grey, and 
they sold it in 1533 to Nicholas Bohun.' The manor was then held of the 
Manor of Westhall Barrington by fealty and the yearly rent of 17s. 8d. 

Nicholas Bohun in 1555 conveyed the manor during his ;(Nicholas's) 
life to Francis his son, in consideration of an annuity of £15. Francis 
married Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund Knyvet Serjeant Porter to King 
Hen. VHL, by Jane his wife, daughter and heir of John Bourchier, Lord 
Berners. 

Amongst the Chancery Proceedings in the time of Queen Elizabeth 
is an action as to the title to the manor between John Aldham and 
Elizabeth his wife and the last-named Francis and Nicholas Bohun.'' 

On Francis Bohun's death, the manor passed to his grandson, Edmund 
Bohun, son of Nicholas Bohun, who had died in his father's lifetime, by 
Nicholas's wife Audrey, sister of Sir Edward Coke, the celebrated Lord 
Chief Justice of England. 

A lease of the manor in 1623 will be found amongst the Stowe Charters 
in the Brit. Mus.' 

From this Edmund Bohun the devolution of the manor is identical 
with that of the main manor. 

" Empoles Manor " is included in two fines levied against Sir Owen 
Hopton, in 1565 and 1568 the first by Robert Hopton, and the second 
by Owen Tasbourgh and others.* We are not able to explain this. 

Manor of Barrington's. 

This manor was vested in Sir John Barrington, Knt., in 1375. He was 
the son of Nicholas Barrington and Emma his wife, daughter and coheir of 
Robert Board. This Nicholas was the son of Sir Nicholas, the son of Sir 
Nicholas, the son of Sir Nicholas, the son of Sir Humphrey, the son of 
Humphrey, the son of Eustace, the son of Barentine, who lived in the time 
of William the Conqueror, and was the Keeper of Hatfield Regis Forest. 
Shortly after Sir John Barrington's death, the manor was released by his 
widow Margaret, daughter and heir of Sir John Blomville, Knt., in 1378, 
to her son and heir, John Barrington. He married Alice, daughter and 
coheir of Thomas Battle, younger son of Sir John Battle, of Ongar Park, 
CO. Essex, Knt., and on his death the manor passed to his son and heir, 
Thomas Barrington, who was High Sheriff of Essex and Herts in 1452. He 
married Anne, 2nd daughter and coheir of Sir John Holbeach, Knt., by 
the daughter and coheir of Sir John Rochford, of Lincolnshire, and dying 
8th April, 1472, two days after his wife, the manor devolved upon his son 
and heir, Humphrey Barrington, who married Margaret Bretton, and dying 
it passed to his son and heir, Nicholas Barrington, married to Anne, daughter 
of Thomas Darcy, of Tolshunt Darcy, co. Essex. 

By deed dated 15th Feb. 1482-3, Thomas, Marquess of Dorset, Anthony, 
Earl of Rivers, and others as trustees enfeoffed this Nicholas Barrington 
and Anne his wife, and the heirs of their bodies lawfully begotten, and in 
default to the right heirs of Humphrey Barrington. Nicholas Barrington 
died 27th Sept. 1505, and his elder son Richard having died the same year, 
but in his father's lifetime, without issue, the manor passed to Nicholas's 
younger son, Sir Nicholas Barrington, married to Elizabeth, daughter of 
— Parker, and dying it devolved on his son and heir. Sir Nicholas Barrington, 

"Fine, Hil. 25 Hen. VIII. ^ Stowe Ch. 20. 

"C.P. i. I. * Fines, Hil. 7 Eliz. ; Trin. 10 Eliz. 



192 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Brocket, of Brocket Hall, co. 
Herts. He made his will 22nd July, 1515, and it was proved in October, 
1521. . - 

The manor passed to his son and heir John Barrington, who was an 
infant of eight years of age at the time of his father's death. -John married 
twice, 1st Ahce, daughter of Henry Parker, Lord Morley, by whom he had 
an only child, Elizabeth, who married Edward Harris ; and 2ndly Winifred, 
youngest daughter and coheir of Henry Pole, Lord Montagu, widow of Sir 
Thomas Hastings, by whom he had a son. Sir Francis Barrington, who was 
created a Baronet. The manor however did not pass to him, for it was 
sold by his father, Thomas Barrington and Winifred his wife, and conveyed 
by fine in 1562 to Francis Bohun. It was then stated to consist of 20 
messuages, 4 tofts, 60 acres of land, 10 of meadow, 40 of pasture, and ;£io 
rent. The manor was held of the Hundred of Bly thing by fealty and 
rent of 6s. 8d., payable to the Hundred every seventh year for all manner 
of services in the name of a Juredaynes fee ; from which time it passed 
in the same course as the Manor of Empoles, and later as the main manor 
of Westhall. 

Manor of Bacon's al. Wingfield. 

This manor seems to have been the inheritance of Simon Bacon, of 
Westhall, who recovered 10 acres of land here in 1305 of William Attecruch, 
and Thomas Attecruch,' and in 1318 we meet with a fine levied of the manor 
of Westhall, but probably of this manor, between Adam Bacun, clerk, pit., 
and Robert de Ulverton and Agatha his wife (John son of Robert de Ulver- 
ton and John son of Robert de Ulverton app. clam.).'' In the reign of 
Hen. IV., the manor became vested in the Wingfield family. Property 
was held here by this family as early as the time of Edw. II., for we find 
on the Patent Rolls in 1311 a commission issued on the complaint of Roger 
de Wyngefield that Martin Lone, of Westhall, with Adam and John his 
brothers, and others carried away his goods at Westhall.^ 

Sir John Wingfield, Knt., held the manor before 1400, and at his death 
it passed to his son and heir. Sir Robert Wingfield, from which time to the 
time of Sir Anthony Wingfield, who held his first court for this manor in 
1520, the manor devolved in the same course as the Manor of Thorpe Hall, 
in Hasketon, in Carlford Hundred. The manor is specifically mentioned 
in the inquisition p.m. of Sir John Wingfield, who died in 1481.* 

By deed dated ist July, 1482, John Sulyard, serjeant-at-law, and others, 
according to the wiU of the said Sir John Wingfield, enfeoffed Thomas, 
Archbishop of York, John, Bishop of Ely, and others in the manor held of 
the gift and grant of Edward Fitz William and WiUiam BlaxhaU, to hold 
to the use of Sir John Wingfield and Anne his wife, and the heirs male of the 
said John Wingfield. But if Sir John Wingfield died without male issue then 
to the heirs male of John Wingfield, his late father, and in default to the 
right heirs of the said Sir John. 

In 1534 a first court for the manor was held by Andrew Manfeld, 
M.D., and others, feoffees, and the following year the said Andrew Manfeld 
and others, at the request of Sir Anthony Wingfield, Knt., enfeoffed the 
said Anthony Wingfield, John Fyske, of Holton, and Roger Baldrye, of 
Letheringham, in the Manor of Westhall, in Westhall, which manor they 
lately had conjointly of the livery and confirmation of Charles, Duke of 

'0. 33 Edw. I. 22. 3 Pat. Rolls, 5 Edw. II. pt. ii. I2d. 

^Teet of Fines, 12 Edw. II. 13. *I.P.M., 21 Edw. IV. 59. 



WESTHALL HALL. 193 

Suffolk, William Gierke, clerk, and John Ingold, by deed bearing date 4th 
April, 24 Hen. VHL [1533], to hold to the sole use of the said Anthony, his 
heirs and assigns. The same year, namely, 1535, the manor was disposed of 
to. Nicholas Bohun, and he, William Brampton, William Duke, and others 
held their first court, and a fine was levied of the manor in 1538 by Nicholas 
Bohun against Sir Anthony Wingfield.' 

The manor was conveyed by Nicholas Bohun in 1563 to his son and 
heir, Francis Bohun, in consideration of an annuity of £20 for life. The 
rents of this manor were then about £1. 16s. i^d. From Francis the 
manor passed to his grandson, Edmund Bohun, as mentioned in the account 
of Empole's manor, and from him has passed in a like course of devolution 
with the main manor of Westhall. 



'Fine, Easter, 13 Hen. VIII, 
AI 




194 THE Mx\NORS OF SUFFOLK. 

WESTLETON. 

jHERE were two manors in this place in Saxon times. The 
one held by Aki was of considerable extent, consisting of 
4 carucates of land. It was 2 leagues and 2 quarantenes 
long, and 2 leagues broad, and paid in a gelt y^d. There 
were attached to it 13 villeins, 14 bordars, 4 serfs, 3 plough- 
teams in demesne, and 10 belonging to the tenants. There 
was wood sufficient for 7 hogs, and also 3 acres of meadow, 

3 beasts, 20 hogs, 60 sheep, 24 goats, and 2 hives of bees. The value was 
loos., which remained the same at the time of the Great Survey, though the 
serfs had come down half ; there were no ploughteams in demesne, and but 
5 belonging to the tenants. There was also a church with 20 acres valued 
at 20d. 

To this manor were attached 14 freemen and a half, with 103 acres 
and a half. They had in Saxon times 6 ploughteams reduced to 3 at the 
time of the Survey, while the value remained at 20s. This manor was held 
by Gilbert le Blund of Robert Malet as the Domesday tenant in chief.' 

The second was a small manor held under commendation by a freeman, 
with 30 acres, of which the King and the Earl had the soc. In Saxon times, 
and indeed in early Norman days, there was a ploughteam, but this had 
gone by the time of the Survey. There was an acre of meadow, and also 
a church with 3 acres. The value of the holding was in the Confessor's 
time 8s., and when Robert Malet took it in hand it was let for 20s., but by 
the time of the Survey the value had receded to 8s. again. This manor 
was held by Fulchred of Malet.'' Amongst the lands of Robert Malet a 
villein with 6 acres is mentioned as being held by Gilbert le Blund. The 
only other holding in Westleton mentioned in the Survey is that which 
Brunar the priest had in the Confessor's time, consisting of 2y^ acres, and 
half a ploughteam valued at 4s. Robert le Blund was the Domesday 
tenant in chief, apparently by way of exchange.^ 

In later times, of course before the statute of Edw. I. which prevented 
the creation of fresh manors, there were eight distinct manors in Westleton : 
I, Westleton with the members ; 2, Westleton Grange ; 3, Minsmere or 
Scot's Hall ; 4, Lenwale's or Lembalde's or Lymbold's ; 5, Claydon's ; 6, 
Cleeve's or Cliff's, or Hernethorne ; 7, Valeins ; 8, Rysing's. 

The Domesday Survey has 4 entries under Minsmere, no doubt relating 
to the manor of this name in Westleton. Three are small holdings of Robert 
Malet, and the fourth of freemen under Roger Bigot. Malet's holdings 
were 12 acres of free land valued at i2d. ; 2 freemen with 8 acres, valued 
at i2d. ; and 12 acres which Leuric Cock held valued at i2d. Over all these 
holdings the King and the Earl had the soc* The fourth holding was of 

4 freemen having 45 acres, three of the freemen under commendation to 
Norman, and the fourth under commendation to one himself under com- 
mendation to Norman. There was one ploughteam, and the value of the 
holding was 13s. 4^., the King and the Earl having the soc' 

Manor of Westleton, with the members. 

This was the manor held in Saxon times by Aki, a freeman, and at the 
time of the Great Survey by Gilbert le Blund of Robert Malet. The manor 

'Dom. ii. 312, 313&. ■'Dom. ii. 314. 

^Dom. ii. 314. 5Dom. ii. 334. 

^Dom. ii. 440. 



WESTLETON. 



195 



from Gilbert descended to William le Blund,' and in 1264 King Hen. III. 
took homage of William de Criketot, one of the heirs of William le Blund, 
as to lands in Westleton and elsewhere, and gave order to the Escheator to 
accept security for relief for one knight's fee here.^ William de Criketot 
died seised in 1269.^ But we do not find the manor mentioned either in 
the order to the Escheator or in the inquisition. The first mention of the 
manor we have been able to discover is toward the end of the 13th century, 
when we find it vested in Peter de Donewico, who had a grant of free 
warren here in 1298.* 

The number of manors in Westleton, and consequently various juris- 
dictions caused difficulties in the time of Edw. I., and in 1302 we meet 
with a suit by this Peter de Donewico against Thomas de Bavent and nine 
other tenants of Westleton Manor for hindering him as lord of Westleton 
Manor from holding his court and exercising other rights, the defendants 
alleging that Roger de Huntingfield, William de Bo veil, John de Rysing, 
Augustine CruU (? del Clif), and the heirs of Thomas de Lymworth were 
lords of some parts of the said town, and ought to hold courts along with 
the said Peter.' 

This manor subsequently passed to the family of Swillington, and Sir 
Robert Swillington, Knt., died seised in 1391,® when it passed to his son 
and heir, Sir Roger Swillington, who died in 1417 or 1418. A third part 
passed in dower to his widow Joan, who died in 1428,' and subject thereto 
went to Sir Roger's son and heir. Sir John Swillington, passing in the same 
course as the Manor of Blythburgh, in this Hundred, to the Hoptons, and 
through the Hopton family to the time of Sir Owen Hopton. 

The manor is mentioned in the inquisition p.m. of John Hopton,* 
of Sir George Hopton,' and Sir Arthur Hopton, who died 15th Aug. 

Amongst the proceedings in the Star Chamber in the time of Hen. VIH., 
will be found reference to the manor as the estate of Arthur Hopton, a ward, 
in an action between Sir Robert Curson and Anne his wife and Sir 
Robert Clere and William Eyre." 

Sir Owen Hopton sold the manor to Robert Brooke in 1592." He died 
in 1600, when the manor passed to his son. Sir Robert Brooke, who, dying 
in 1646 it passed to his 2nd son, John Brooke, who married Jane, daughter 
of Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston, of Kedington, and died in 1652 without 
issue, when it went to his widow Jane, who took as a second husband 
Sir William Blois, of Grundisburgh. 

Martha, the daughter of Sir Robert Brooke, and sister of John Brooke, 
married Sir William Blois, Knt., and their only son, Sir Charles Blois, of 
Grundisburgh, succeeded to this lordship on the death unmarried of his 



'See Manor of Ixworth in Blackbouin 

Hundred. 
^'Fine Rolls 48 Hen. HI. 3. 
3I.P.M. 53 Hen. HI. 17. 
•♦Chart. Rolls 26 Edw. I. 8. 
^Abbr. of Pleas, 30 and 31, Edw. I. Mich. 

83. 
«I.P.M. as of Castle of Eye. Robert de 

Swillington and Margaret his wife. 

15 Rich. II. pt. i. 61. 
7I.P.M., 6 Hen. VI. 52. 
8I.P.M., 19 Edw. IV. 70. 
n.-PM., 5 Hen. VII. 589, 643. 
" I. P.M., 2 and 3 Phil, and M. 62. 



"Star C.P. Hen. VIII., Bundle 17. 336 
vol. ix. 241. See further. Star 
C.P., Hen. VIII. vol X. 48, 49, 
Hen VIII. 38, Bundle 26, 83. As 
to the title to this Manor and the 
Manors of Westhall and Thoring- 
ton, see the action in the Star 
Chamber, Sir Robert Clere and 
William Eyre, plaintiff, against 
Sir Robert Curson and Anne, his 
wife, defendants. Hen. VIII., 
Bundle 25, 144. 

" See Manor of Aspal in Hartismere 
Hundred. 



196 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

aunt Mary, the only surviving child of Sir Robert Broke, 8th Oct. 1693. 
From this time to the time of Sir Charles Blois, 9th Bart., of Cockfield 
Hall, Yoxford, the manor passed in the same course as the Manor of 
Blythburgh, in this Hundred. Sir Charles sold the manor to H. S. Montagu, 
who held in 1855. 

In 1885 it appears to have been vested in Lord Huntingfield, and is 
now vested in S. Patteson. 

Westleton Hall is now scarcely to be traced, but is supposed to have 
been on the farm belonging to the family of Day, on which is now a barn 
and cottage called " Old Hall," and the field adjoining called " Old Hall 
Field." 

Manor of Westleton Grange. 

This manor also formed part of the lands held by Robert Malet, and at 
the time of the Domesday Survey was held of him by Fulchred. It 
apparently was given at an early period to Sibton Abbey for the Abbot 
held the manor and the advowson in 1299.' 

But earlier than this we learn from the Hundred Rolls that the Abbot 
of Sibton held 30 acres in Westleton of the fee of the Earl of Cornwall.^ 

With the abbey the manor remained until the Dissolution, when it 
vested in the Crown, and was granted in 1536 to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk. 
In the following year the manor belonged to John Soone, but in 1547 it 
passed from him to Edmund Rouse, who four years later disposed of it 
to John Harbottle, merchant. The 6th May, 1635, the manor was con- 
veyed by Sir Harbottle Grimstone, Bart., to William Hart. In 1651 it 
became the property of John Fiske, and in 1710 was conveyed by James 
Fiske and Mary his wife to Mary Woods, widow. She was probably the 
widow of John Woods, who died 7th Oct. 1703, and daughter of James 
Knapp, of Winfarthing, co. Norfolk. She died 19th Sept. 1720. 

In the Woods family the manor continued for several generations. On 
the death of Mary Woods the manor passed to her son, Everard Woods the 
elder. By deeds dated 30th and 31st Maxch, 1734, he mortgaged the manor 
to Edward Ventris, Of Sproughton, for £600, which was transferred by deed 
28th Feb. and ist March, 1736, on a further advance of ;^57o, to John 
Clayton. Everard Woods the elder married twice — ist Margaret, daughter 
of — Osborne, who died 28th March, 1725, and 2ndly Sarah, who died 9th 
May, 1743. By a settlement dated 20th Nov. 1740, the manor was con- 
veyed to trustees to the use of Everard Woods the elder for life, with 
remainder to his eldest son Everard Woods the younger for life, with 
remainder in tail male, with remainder to the daughters of the said Everard 
Woods the younger, as tenants in common, with remainder to the right 
heirs of the said Everard Woods the elder for ever. On Everard Woods the 
elder's death ist May, 1741, the manor passed to his only son, Everard 
Woods the younger, and on his death to his only son and heir, Alexander 
Woods. By virtue of indentures dated the loth and nth Jan. 1777, and 
a recovery suffered the manor became vested in the said Alexander Woods 
in fee. He died the 13th Jan. 1783. Alexander Woods held in 1809. 
From him the manor passed to his son and heir, Samuel Alexander Woods, 
who sold it in 1852 to H. S. Montagu. 

'Harl. 83 F. 12. 'H.R. ii. 148. 



WESTLETON. 



197 



In 1885 the manor was vested in Lord Huntingfield, in 1896 in D. 
Parry-Crooke, of Darsham House, and it is now vested in Mr. George Frederick 
Beaumont, of The Lawn, Coggeshall, Essex. 

Particulars of the land belonging to this manor, with rough outline 
plan, will be found amongst the Rawlinson MSS. in the Bodleian.' In 
this manor the custom of Borough English prevails, the youngest son 
and youngest brother being heirs. 

Manor of Minsmere or Scot's Hall. 

This manor was held at the time of the Domesday Survey by Roger 
Bigot of Robert Malet. In 1264 the manor was held by Richard le Scott, 
of Dunwich, who had a grant of free warren here.'' In 1289 he recovered 
seisin against Andreas, son of Augustine, of 22 shillings and 6 pence rent 
in Westleton.^ 

On his death in 1300 " Claricia," his widow, claimed dower of John, 
the son of Richard le Scott. Davy mentions an action in 1300 between 
Roger de Huntingfield, jun., and Joyce his wife, and Richard de Tudenham 
and Joan his wife, being a plea of dower of the said Joan in a tenement in 
Westleton, and in 1303 makes Roger de Huntingfield lord; but Davy 
probably obtained his information from the inquisition p.m. of this Roger 
Huntingfield and Joyce his wife taken this year, when the Manor of Westle- 
ton is mentioned and an extent given.'* 

It does not seem clear however that this is the manor of which 
Roger Huntingfield was lord ; particularly as the same manor is men- 
tioned in the inquisition p.m. of Roger de Huntingfield in 1329,^ when 
this manor was clearly in the Scott family. A fine was levied of part of 
this manor under the head "Mynmysmere Manor" in 1346 by John Scott 
and Isabella his wife against Nicholas de Lay, parson of the church of 
St. Margaret's de Burgh in Flegg, and John de Dunwich.^ Further we 
find Davy himself stating a little later that John Scott and Catherine his 
daughter and heir had the lordship, and that he (but who he refers to is not 
clear) sold the manor in 1363 to Peter Bedingfield, Knt., who died in 1371, 
and from this time to the time of Edmund Bedingfield, who died in 1583, 
the manor passed in the same course as the Manor of Hesteley Hall, in Thorn- 
don, in Hartismere Hundred.^ A fine of this manor, under the name of 
"Mynmysmere manor in Westleton," in 1385 will be found amongst the 
Additional Charters in the Brit. Mus.^ 

The fine does not support Davy's statement exactly, for by it Peter 
Dowe, of Bedingfield, and Katherine his wife, acknowledge that the manor 
is the right of Robert Bacoun,of Hadleigh, and John Cook, of Bedingfield.^ 
Of course, this might have been a transfer of mortgage. 

The manor is specifically mentioned in the inquisition p.m. of Sir 
Thomas Bedingfield, who died without issue 15th March, 1538.'° From 
Edmund Bedingfield, who died in 1583, the manor probably went in the 
same course as the Manor of Bedingfield Hall, in Hoxne Hundred, to the 
death of Sir Harry Bedingfield in 1609. 



'Rawl. D. 1481. 

== Chart. Rolls, 49 Hen. III. pt. i, 6. 

^O., 17 Edw. I. 25. 

•*I.P.M., 31 Edw. I, 31. 

5I.P.M., 3 Edw. III. 42. 

6 Feet of Fines, 20 Edw. III. 37. 



'See, too. Manor of Gt. Bealings, in 

Carlford Hundred. 
8 Add. Ch., 7288, 9241. 
'Add. Ch. 7288, 9241. ; Feet of Fines, 

8 Rich. II. 12. 
"I.P.M., 31 Hen. VIII. 5. 



igS 



THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 



There is in existence the record of a suit in 1571 in which William 
Yaxley and Walter Norton recovered seisin of this manor against Edmund 
Bedingfield. The manor is in the pleadings called " Mynysmere alias 
Skotes.'" However, the manor seems to have been vested in Edmund 
Bedingfield at the time of his death in 1583. 

The manor afterwards belonged to the Cokes until sold by Thomas 
Coke, Earl of Leicester, to Sir Joshua Vanneck, Bart., who died seised of it 
in 1777, and from him it has descended in the same course as the Manor 
of Heveningham, in this Hundred, to 1885, when it was vested in Lord 
Huntingfield. 

By i8g6 the manor had passed to Charles Capon, and it is now vested 
in Edwin M. Caines. 

Manor of Lenwale's or Lembalde's or Lymbold's. 

This manor was in the time of Hen. IH. vested in Thomas de Lym- 
worth, and in the middle of the 14th century vested in Thomas de 
Hemington, from whom it was acquired in 1377 by Sir Robert de Swillington, 
Knt.,^ who died seised of it in 1391, from which time to the time of John 
Hopton the manor passed in the same course as the Manor of Blythburgh, 
in this Hundred. It is specifically mentioned in the inquisition p.m. of 
Joan Swillington, who died in 1428/ and is mentioned in the conveyance 
with Westleton Clay dons and Rysings and other manors in 1471, in the 
deed referred to in the account of Brent fen Manor, Middleton, in this 
Hundred.'* 

The manor is specifically included in a fine levied in 1579 by John 
Wentworth against Sir Owen Hopton and others.^ 

Manor of Claydons. 

This manor was vested in William Claydon, who died seised of it in 
1330, M^hen it passed to his son and heir, John Claydon, who died in 
1350,^ when the manor passed to his daughter and heir, Eleanor. The 
manor shortly afterwards became vested in Sir Robert Swillington, who 
died in 1391, after which it devolved in the same course of descent as the 
Manor of Lenwale's, and ultimately passed with the main manor, forming 
one of its members. 

Precipe on a covenant concerning this manor, and also the Manors of 
Westleton, Rysings, and Valans (sic) in 1592, will be found amongst the 
Additional Charters in the Brit. Mus.^ 



Manor of Westleton, Cleeve's, or Cliff's, Hernethorne. 

In 13-16 this manor was vested in Augustine del Chf of Dunwich. He 
was the son of John de Donewyco, and reference to an action by him against 
William de Criketot and others touching a tenement in Westleton will be 
found on the Patent Rolls for 1275.* Augustine seems to have died before 
1329, for this year we meet with a fine levied of the manor by Peter de 
Donewyco, parson of Westleton Church, and John, son of Roger de Done- 
wyco and Thomas his brother, pit., against Clement Thorald, parson of 



'Add. Ch. 12670. 

"^Feet of Fines, 51 Edw. III. 30. 

3I.P.M., 6 Hen. VI. 52. 

■*Harl. 45 F. 41 and 42. 

5 Fine, Hil. 21 Eliz. 



«I.P.M., 24 Edw. III. 80. 
'''Add. Ch. 25440. 

8 Pat. Rolls ; 3 Edw. I. 2id, 7 Edw. I. l2i 
(22). 



WESTLETON. 199 

Wrentham Church, deforc, in which John, son of this Augustine del Clif, 
of Dunwich, and Thomas, son of WiUiam Austyn, of Dunwich, were app. 
clam.' 

We meet with another fine levied of the manor in 1348 by Augustine, 
parson of Brampton Church, and Beatrice, who was wife of John del Chf, 
against Peter del Clif and Robert Burghard, chaplain.'' John del Clif held 
the manor, dying seised thereof in 1343, and under the name of " Herne- 
thorne manor in Westleton " it is mentioned in his inquisition p.m.^ 

The manor seems to have then vested in Edmund del Clif, and on his 
death passed to his sister and heir married to William Chestan. In 1374-5 
the manor seems however to have been vested in Peter Codon, for a rental 
for this year is still preserved amongst the Additional Charters in the Brit. 
Mus.* 

The family of Chestan or Chedestan had held land in Westleton at a 
much earlier date, for in 1310 we meet on the Close Rolls with a notification 
that James de Chedestan sought to replevy to Augustine de la Faleyse (no 
doubt the same with Augustine del Clif of Dunwich, lord of the Manor of 
Cleeve's in Westleton), the said Augustine's land in Westleton.^ On the 
death of Wm. Chestan and his wife the manor vested about 1425 in their 
son and heir, William Chestan. In 1435 the manor was in Thomas, Duke 
of Exeter, Robert de Willoughby, and others, as feoffees, for this year 
they held their first court for the manor. In 1484 the lordship was held by 
Thomas Wetherby, son and heir of John Wetherby and Agnes his wife, and 
John Bokele, son and heir of William Bokele and Alice his wife, Agnes and 
Alice being coheirs. 

An inquisition p.m. in 1493 shows how this was. John Russe held in 
right of his wife Christine j a son Robert died without issue, and on Christine's 
death J ohn held as tenant by the curtesy. On his death the manor descended 
to Agnes, wife of John Wetherby, aged 50, and Alice, late wife of William 
Bokele, aged 40, as sisters and heirs of the said Christine."^ In 1504 Sir 
Thomas Howard, Lord Howard, held his first court as a purchaser from 
Thomas Wetherby of a moiety, and in 1506 the other moiety was held by 
John Bokele, son of William. In 1506 the Howard moiety was vested by 
purchase in William Jenney, son and heir of Sir Edmund Jenney, Knt., 
who this year held a court in respect of this moiety. In 151 6 John Jenney 
held his first court for a moiety, and in 1528 Joan, relict of John Bokele, 
held her first court for the other moiety, which later passed to her son and 
heir, John Bokele, who died in 1531,'' when it passed to his son and heir, 
a third John Bokele. 

In 1530 John Jenney and Anne his wife held their first court for the 
Jenney moiety, and John dying 6th Oct. 1532,^ it passed to his son and heir 
Henry. In 153^8 John Bokele, son and heir of John, held his first court 
for the Bokele moiety, and in 1567 Christopher Jenney and Robt. Reve in 
right of OUve, his wife held the lordship. 

Amongst the Chancery Proceedings in the time of Queen Elizabeth will be 
found an action by Christopher Jenney in support of title against Robert 
Brooke and William Green as to sheepwalk and lands in Westleton, formerly 

'Feet of Fines, 3 Edw. III. 2. ^ Close Rolls, 4 Edw. II. 22d. 

"Feet of Fines, 21 Edw. III. 31. «I.P.M., 8 Hen. VII. 794. 

3I.P.M., 17 Edw. III. 17. 7I.P.M., 23 Hen. VIII. 275. 

*Add. Ch. 17632. n,VM., 25 Hen. VIII. 26. 



200 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

the estate of Francis Clovell.' We next meet with a fine of " Cleyffys 
Manor " in 1545, levied by Nicholas Hussey against a Francis Clovyle and 
others.'' 

The Jenney moiety then seems to have vested in John Barker al. 
Chapman, sen., for in 1569 we find the lordship to be in John Reeve, son 
and heir of OUve Reeve, widow, and the said John Barker. They held 
their first court 19th April 11 Khz. The 13th April, 1577, Henry Grene 
held his first court, having purchased from John Reeve and John Chapman 
al. Barker in 1577.^ Grene vested the manor in Richard Soane, merchant, 
who held his first court 8th Oct. 1583, and 11 years later, 10 Oct. 1593, 
a first court was held by WiUiam Grene, who however, does not appear to 
have acquired the legal estate until 1594, when we meet with a fine 
levied by him against Richard Soane and others,* but the manor was shortly 
afterwards acquired by William Bence, merchant,^ who held a first court 
26th March, 1599, ^"^ ^^^^ i^ 1606. In this year, 15th Oct., John Bence 
held his first court. One of the Bences named Priscilla, 9th Dec. 1686, 
married a John Snell, of Chediston, who held his first court 13th April, 
1687, and on his death Priscilla held the lordship up to 1694. In 1702 
Edward Wright held the lordship in right of his wife, the said Priscilla, 
and in 1708 Priscilla Wright, widow, was lady of the manor, but she seems 
to have died this or the following year, for 30th Dec. 1709, we find Martha 
Snell, spinster, then holding her first court. The following are the names 
of the succeeding owners, as given in the Davy MSS. : — 

171 4. William Ingham, ist court 4th Dec. 

1734- Thomas Wharton, first court 21st Sept. 

1737. Thomas Wharton and Priscilla his wife. 

1748. Priscilla Wharton, widow, first court 9th Nov. 

1770. John Garneys and Elizabeth his wife, first court 7th July. 

1800. Elizabeth Garneys, widow, first court ist Oct. 

1809. Elizabeth Woodcock, widow. 

James Reeve, whose representatives after his death sold 22nd 
May, 1827, to Richard Girling, of Westleton. The manor at that time on an 
average of 21 years produced annually about ^^27. ys. xid. With the 
manor was a farm of 183 acres, then let at £300. On the death of Richard 
Girling, the manor was again sold, and was acquired by one Cutts. In 
1855 the manor was vested in John Crabtree, of Halesworth, and in 1896 in 
Henry Edwin Garrod, of Diss, in whom it still remains. 

Arms of Snell : Quarterly, Gu. and Az., a cross floree Or. 

Manor of Valeins. 

The manor probably derived its name from the family of Valoynes, who 
held land in Westleton in the time of Hen. III. On the Close Rolls in 
1228 we find a replevin of land which Walter de Valoynes held of William 
Blundus (no doubt William le Blund, the descendant of the Domesday 
holder) in Westleton.^ 

Little more is known of this manor than the fact that it was vested 
in the time of Hen. III. in William de Valence, Earl of Pembroke. It is 
mentioned as held of Clare Honor, and an extent is given in the inquisition 
p.m. of Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, and Maria his 3rd wife in 
1323-' 

'C.P. ii. 92. 5 Pine, Mich. 42-43 Eliz. 

'Fine, Mich. 37 Hen. VIII. « Close Rolls, 12 Hen. III. 9. 

3 Fine, Mich. 19-20 Eliz. 'I.P.M., 17 Edw. II. 75. 

*Fine, Easter, 36 Eliz. 



WESTLETON. 201 

Manor of Rysings. 

This manor was in 1300 and 1316 vested in John de Rysing. Towards 
the end of this century it came to Sir Robert SwiUington, Knt., who died 
in 1391, when it passed to his son and heir, Sir Roger, after which it 
apparently passed in the same course of descent as the main manor, forming 
one of its members. This manor was conveyed with Westleton, Lembaldes, 
and Claydon in Westleton, and other manors, in 1471,' by Robert Banyard, 
probably a trustee to John Hopton, as already shown in the case of Lenwales 
Manor. The manor was included in the release by Robt. Sampson and 
Elizabeth to John Hopton in 1428, mentioned in the account of Brent fen 
Manor, Middleton, in this Hundred. 

Extracts from the Court Rolls of Westleton Manor, and also of the 
Manors of Rysings, Claydons, and other manors in Westleton, will be 
found as follows amongst the Additional Charters in the British Museum : 
1413, Add. Ch. 10384 ; 1438, Add. Ch. 7303 ; 1447, Add. Ch. 10387 ; 
1454, Add. Ch. 10389 ; 1456, Add. Ch. 10390 ; 1506, Add. Ch. 7312, 10397 J 
1508, Add. Ch. 10398 ; 1514, Add. Ch. 7317 ; 1527, Add. Ch. 7322 ; 1530, 
Add. Ch. 7323, 7325 ; 1534, Add. Ch. 7327, 7329 ; 1539, Add. Ch. 7332 ; 
1550, Add. Ch. 7337 ; 1559, Add. Ch. 7340 ; 1563, Add. Ch. 7345 ; 1569, 
Add. Ch. 10404 ; 1570, Add. Ch. 7352 ; 1573, Add. Ch. 10406 ; 1576, 
Add. Ch. 10410 ; 1577, Add. Ch. 7356 ; 1581, Add. Ch. 10414 ; 1600, Add. 
Ch. 10426 ; 1602, Add. Ch. 16428. A collection of grants of lands and 
some rolls of Manors of Westleton t. John to Chas. I., will be found amongst 
the Additional MSS. in the Brit. Mus.' 



■ Harl. 45 F. 41, 42. ^Add. 9235, 9236, 9238, 9241, 9251. 

9252, 9275, 9281. 

B I 




202 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

WISSETT. 

IN the time of Edward the Confessor a manor was held here 
by Ralph the Staller, consisting of 4 carucates of land. This 
at the time of the Survey was held by Earl Alan in demesne. 
There were also 10 villeins and 10 bordars, 2 ploughteams 
in demesne and 5 belonging to the tenants, wood sufficient 
for the support of 300 hogs, 4 acres of meadow, 4 rouncies, 
20 beasts, 60 hogs, 63 sheep, and 51 goats, and in Saxon times 
2 serfs. The value in the Confessor's time was ;^8, later 15s., at the time 
of the Survey 20s. 

There were also 14 freemen under commendation, holding 4 carucates 
of land, 15 bordars, 8 ploughteams, 2 acres of meadow, and wood which 
in the Confessor's time had been sufficient to support 300 hogs, but which 
at the time of the Survey was sufficient for the support of 60 only. Earl 
Alan was the Domesday tenant in chief.' Amongst the invasions upon the 
King we find an entry that to Earl Alan's manor here belonged a freeman 
with 4 acres, which were attached to Northales, valued at 8^. This 
Robert de Curwun invaded, and this freeman Earl Ralph held when he 
made forfeiture, and of this he gave security. Also that there was another 
freeman valued at i6d. over whom the predecessor of William de Varennes 
had commendation in the Confessor's time. And that he had it as part of 
his land by reason of the exchange. These, too, Robert invaded with the 
above-mentioned 4 acres. ^ 

Under the lands held by Earl Alan here, mention is also made of a 
church with 2 carucates of free land. It is stated that there were always 
12 villeins, 16 bordars, and 6 ploughteams, wood for 130 hogs, and 3 acres 
of meadow, and that adjacent to this church were 5 villeins with 52 acres, 
4 ploughteams and a half, and an acre of meadow. Also that in this church 
were 12 monks, and under it a chapel, the whole being included in the above 
valuation of the Wissett holding of Earl Alan of £20.^ 

Manor of Wissett. 

In 1325 we find the manor in the inquisition p.m. of Cecilia de Ufford, 
widow of Sir Robert de Ufford, Knt., and one of the daughters and coheirs 
of Sir Robert de Valoines, Knt., Lord of Walsham, being held by the service 
of 56s. and castleguard of Richmond. Davy says the manor was the 
lordship of Walter de Norwich, who died in 1328, when it vested in his son 
and heir. Sir John de Norwich, who died in 1364. It is quite true the manor 
is mentioned in the inquisition of Walter de Norwich,'' but it is possible 
this was the manor of Blenche's in Wissett. Sir Walter de Norwich did 
not however die in 1328, but in 1326, neither did Sir John de Norwich die 
in 1364, but in 1362.^ The manor does not, however, seem to have gone 
to the grandson of John de Norwich, who became the 2nd Baron and died 
in 1374 without issue, and to whose estate William de Ufford, 2nd Earl 
of Suffolk, son and heir of Robert de Ufford, ist Earl of Suffolk, and 
Margaret his wife, daughter of Sir John Norwich, ultimately succeeded, 
for the manor will be found specified and an extent given in the inquisition 
p.m. of Robert de Ufford, ist Earl of Suffolk, who died in 1369.'' 

'Dom. ii. 293. 5 See Manor of Dalham, in Risbridge Hun- 
='Dom. li. 449. dred, for full account of this family. 

3Dom. ii. 293. ^I.P.M., 43 Edw. III. pt. ii. 38. 
n,P.M., 3 Edw. III. 58. 



WISSETT. 203 

In 1382 we meet with two fines levied of " Wissett Manor," but it 
does not seem clear of which of the three manors of Wissett. Page 
apparently claims one of these fines for the Manor of Wisset le Roos, for he 
says that manor passed after 1375 to John, son of Peter de Brews, Knt., 
and Margery, his wife, who was a Nerford. One of the fines referred to 
is levied by Sir John de Cobeham, of Coulyng, Sir Robert de Swylyngton, 
John Haylesden, of London, Ralph de Forthyngton, clerk, and Robert 
Grethede, clerk, pit., against John, son of Sir Peter Brewes and Margaret 
his wife, deforciants.' The second fine was levied the same year by Henry 
Burne and Thomas Wryght, of Ilketshall, pit., against Nicholas Hunte, of 
London, jun., and Agnes his wife.'' 

Sir Robert de SwiUington held the lordship, and died in 1391,^ when it 
passed to his son and heir Sir Roger de SwiUington. At that time the 
manor seems to have been held of the Castle of Eye. On Sir Roger 
Swilhngton's death, a third of the manor passed to his widow Joan in dower, 
and on her death in 1428'* the whole manor passed to their only daughter, 
Margaret, wife of Sir John Gra, who died without issue in 1430.' Thomas 
Hopton, natural son of Sir Robert SwiUington, sen., had issue John, and he 
in 1420, by virtue of an entail made on Thomas and his heirs obtained con- 
siderable property, the inheritance of the house of SwiUington, in the county 
of Suffolk and elsewhere.* In 1440 Sir John Gra, of South Ingleby, in 
Lincolnshire, released to him certain property he held in right of Margaret 
his wife, heiress of the Swillingtons, and John Hopton died seised of 
this manor in 1479,^ when it passed to his widow Thomasia, who died 
in 1499, when it went to her great-grandson. Sir Arthur Hopton, who died 
in 1555, when the manor vested in his son and heir. The subsequent 
descent of the manor is identical with the Manor of Wisset le Roos. 

The manor was included with the Manor of Wisset le Roos in ' the wUl 
of John Hopton, for the pardon found on the Patent RoUs 18 Edw. IV., 
for having acquired from John Hopton that manor, as mentioned later in 
the account thereof, relates also to this manor. 

Court RoUs of the manor for the 17 Rich. II. will be found in the 
Pubhc Record Office.** 

Manor of Wisset, now called Wisset le Roos. 

This was the manor held by Ralph the Staller in the Confessor's time, 
and by the Earl of Brittany and Richmond under WiUiam the Conqueror. 
On the Earl's death in 1089 the manor passed in the same course of 
descent as the Manor of Nettlestead in Bosmere and Claydon Hundred, to the 
time of Margaret, Countess of Brittany, widow of Conan le Petit, 5th Earl 
of Richmond and Duke of Brittany. In 1205 the manor is said to have been 
exchanged for Reddeshall with Roger Bigot, 2nd Earl of Norfolk. There 
is an entry on the Close Rolls' in 1215 of an order to give seisin to Walter 

'Feet of Fines, 6 Rich. II. 16. from Joan SwiUington, 6 Hen. VI. 

^Ib. 6 Rich. II. 14. to John Hopton 19 Edw. IV., may 

^l.P.M., 15 Rich. II. pt. i. 61. relate to the Manor of Wisset le 

**I.P.M., 6 Hen. VI. 52. Roos, and not to this manor or to 

'Extent of manor and fair in same, I. P.M., both. Wisset le Roos is certainly 

8 Hen. VI. 40. - the manor mentioned in the 

^See Manor of Brent Fen, Middleton, in inquisition. 

this Hundred. ^ Portfolio, 204, 25. 

7I.P.M., 19 Edw. IV. 70. It should be '7 John, pt. i. 15, 

noted here that the devolution 



204 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

le Neve of land in Wissett, which the King gave to Roger le Bigot, and 
which was in the King's hands with the Honor of Bretagne. Roger 
Bigot apparently died seised of this manor in 1220, and was succeeded by 
his son and heir Hugh Bigot, 3rd Earl of Norfolk, who died in 1225. How 
the manor became vested in the Crown is not clear, but in 1227 we find on 
the Close Rolls an order to give to Hugh de Vivon seisin of the manor 
formerly held by Peter, Earl of Bretagne/ 

This was merely however as steward for the King, as we learn from an 
entry on the Close Rolls in the following year, where there is the recital of 
King John having granted the manor to Roger le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, 
and an order for full seisin to be given to Roger, son and heir of Hugh le 
Bigod, son and heir of the said Earl Roger, coupled with a further order to 
Hugo de Vivon, "in whose hands the same was as bailiff of the King.'" 
The manor however was included in the grant made in 1241 to Peter de 
Savoy, uncle of Queen Eleanor, with the Honor of Richmond, under the 
title of "the Manor and Soke of Wischete,in Suffolk," to hold of the Crown 
by knight's service.^ Peter de Savoy, however, wisely fearing that his 
power and influence in this country might be displeasing to the English, 
the following year resigned his possessions and left the country, when 
Hen. in. granted this manor to his son, afterwards Edw. I., who gave it 
in 1267 to Sir John de Vallibus or Vaux, to whom a grant was also made 
of a market and fair here the same year.* He claimed view of frank- 
pledge and assize of bread and beer in the time of Edw. I.^ 

It appears from a petition of John de Dreux, Earl of Richmond and 
Duke of Brittany, to ParUament in 1292, that in 1267 the Manor of Wissett 
was still vested in that family, for on the grant to John de Vallibus the King 
granted to the then Earl Peter a recompense.* It is not easy to see how 
this could have been the case, as Peter de Dreux died about 1250, and in 
1267 John, his son, was Earl of Richmond and Duke of Brittany. 

A Chartulary of the estates of this John de Vallibus, and of his daughter 
Petronilla and her husband William de Nerford, from the time of Hen. III. 
to Edw. II., will be found amongst the Stowe MSS. in the Brit. Mus.^ And 
a grant by Matilda, wife of Nicholas de Breton, to "Sir John son of Oliver 
de Vaux " of sixpence of annual rent in Wissett c. 1270-80, amongst the 
Bodleian Suffolk Charters.^ 

Sir John de Vallibus died in 1288,' when the manor passed to his 
daughter and coheir Petronilla, married ist to a Holbroke and 2ndly to 
William de Nerford. 

This William de Nerford was probably the son of Robert de Nerford 
and Alice hi? wife, daughter of John Pouchard, which Robert was Governor 
of Dover Castle in the first year of Hen. III. under Hubert de Burgh. 
William took part with the rebelUous Barons against King John, and had 
his lands seized, but they were subsequently restored. Having married 
Petronilla without Hcence, he had to pay a fine of £230 for the offence to 
the Crown. In 1294 he received command with others to attend the King 
upon the great affairs of the nation, and was summoned to Parliament 
as a Baron in the 22nd and 23rd years of Edw. I. but never afterwards. 

'Close Rolls, II Hen. III. 2 ; Chart. Rolls, ^g.w. 730. 

12 Hen. HI. pt. i. II; Bodl. 4166. ^R.P. i. 78. 

^Close Rolls, 12 Hen. HI. 65. ''Stowe MSS. 776. 

3 Chart. Rolls, 46 Hen. III. pt. i. 3. Add. ^Boii. Suff. Ch. 1213. 

MSS., Brit. Mus. 5702. si.P.M., 16 Edw. I. 41. 
♦Chart. Rolls, 51 Hen. HI. 7. 



WISSETT. 205 

Petronilla obtained this manor charged with £14 rent per annum on 
the partition in 1298 of the large possessions of her father. This ;^I4 a 
year had to be paid to Sir WiUiam le Roos, who had married her sister 
Maud, the other coheir of John de Vallibus. 

Sir WilUam de Nerford held the manor of the King in capita as of the 
Honor of Richmond by the service of one knight's fee. 

Amongst the Suffolk Charters in the Bodleian, 1274, we meet with a 
quit claim of John Redhed, of Wissett, to this William de Nerford and 
Petronilla his wife of all right and claim in 4 acres of land in Wissett/ 
and a grant in 1310 by Robert Dilhegg, of Wissett, to the Lady Petronilla 
de Nerford and her heirs of a capital messuage in Wissett, with arable lands, 
&c.^ 

After the death of William de Nerford, who died in 1301,^ and Petronilla, 
who died in 1326,'* the manor passed to their son, John de Nerford, who 
does not appear to have been summoned to Parliament. He and Agnes his 
wife in 1328 settled the manor on themselves and their heirs male in tail. 
This Agnes was a daughter of William de Hereford, sister and heir of 
Edmund de Bereford, widow of Sir John Argentein, and after Nerford's 
decease remarried Sir John Mautravers. Subject to Agnes the widow's 
life interest, the manor on the death of John de Nerford in 1329, without 
issue, vested in Thomas de Nerford, his brother. Neither he (who died in 
1344) nor his son. Sir John de Nerford, Knt., who was slain in the wars in 
France in 1364, leaving an only daughter and heir Margery de Nerford, 
ever enjoyed possession of the manor, for Agnes Mautravers retained it 
under the above-mentioned settlement until her death in 1375. 

In 1329 there is an order to the Escheater on the Close Rolls not to 
interfere further with and to restore the issue of the manor to this Agnes, 
as she and her husband John de Nerford were jointly enfeoffed by fine.' 

The manor at that time is stated to have been held of the King as of 
the Honor of Richmond by the service of one knight's fee. This order was 
evidently made on the death of John de Nerford.® Two years later there is 
an order on the Patent Rolls which shows that Agnes the widow had then 
remarried John Mautravers the younger. It purports to be a grant of the 
manor to Agnes, wife of John Mautravers the younger, a " rebel," extended 
as of the value of £22. i6s. 2d.^ On the OriginaUa Rolls is a sale by the King 
of all the corn in the manor to the said Agnes.^ 

It is quite true that the manor is mentioned in the inquisition p.m. of 
John de Nerford, son of Thomas, in 1364,^ but all he was seised of was the 
reversion. 

On the death of Agnes in 1375," the nianor passed to Margery, the only 
child of Sir John de Nerford, and on the Rolls of Parhament in 1378 will be 
found a petition by her mother Alice, widow of Sir John de Nerford, who 
had married Sir John Nevill, of Essex, respecting the forcible seizure of 
this Margery, her daughter, from the house of her grandmother Alice, fe., 
mother of Sir John de Nerford, father of the said Margery. 

Against this Margery a fine was levied in 1388, said to be of " Wissett 
Manor," in which Sir John de Cobeham, of Coulyng, Sir Robert de Swylling- 
ton, John Hailesdon,of London, Ralph de Forthyngton, clerk, and Robert 

'Bodl. Suff. Ch. 1214. ^Pat. Rolls, 5 Edw. III. pt. i. 21. 

*Bodl. Suff. Ch. 518. 80., 5 Edw. III. 11. 

3I.P.M., 30 Edw. I. 56. n.V.M., 38 Edw. III. 31 ; see too I.P.M., 

*She was buried at Penthey, in Norfolk. 50 Edw. III. 46. 

5 Close Rolls, 3 Edw. III. 18. "I.P.M., 49 Edw. III. pt. ii. 17. 

6I.P.M., 3 Edw. III. 9. 



2o6 



THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 



Grethed, clerk^ were pit., and the said Margery de Nerford was deforc' 
Margery died unmarried in 1417. Page, copying from the Davy MSS., 
says that on the death of Alice Mautravers, the manor passed to John, 
son of Peter de Brews, Knt., and Margery his wife, who was a Nerford, 
and that in 1383 Sir John settled it on trustees, and the following year 
Sir Thomas Roos, of Hamlake, Knt., and Beatrice his wife, descended from 
Maud, the other daughter and coheir of Vaux, had it. 

As early as 1363 we meet with an order on the Originalia Rolls for the 
acceptance of security from Thomas de Roos, of Hamelake, late brother 
of William, son of William de Roos and Margery his wife, for a reasonable 
relief for 5 messuages, 100 acres, and lOOs. rent in Wissett." 

No doubt Thomas de Roos acquired ultimately the whole manor, 
and died seised of it in 1383 or 4,^ when it passed to his widow Beatrice for 
life, and then to their son John, Lord Roos, of Hamlake. On the Patent 
Rolls in 1390 we find a pardon to John de Notyngham for acquiring for life 
from Beatrice, Lady de Roos, without licence, the manor by the description 
of " all the lands, tenements, rents, and services with appurtenances which 
the said Beatrice held in Wycet, Speksall, co. Suffolk.* In 1394 Margery 
de Nerford released and conveyed all her right to William de Roos and his 
heirs. 

In 1401 we meet with a fine levied of the manor in which the said 
John de Notyngham, Robert de Caverham, William Gemeys, John de 
Chestan, Rich. Drewe, Robert de Knayton, clerk, and Roger Cawod, clerk, 
were pit., and the said Beatrice, Lady Roos, was deforciant.^ Four years 
later we meet with a release amongst the ancient deeds in the Exchequer 
and Treasury of the receipt in the Pubhc Record Ofi&ce by John de Chestan 
to William Gerveys and Richard Drewe (no doubt trustees) of all his right 
in the manor. ^ A little later Sir Roger Swillington held, and from him a 
third passed in dower to his wife Joan, and subject thereto vested in his 
daughter, married to Sir John Gra. 

The manor was in the time of Hen. VI. vested in John Hopton, son 
and heir of Thomas Hopton, and we meet with a fine levied of this manor 
in 1440, in which he is plaintiff and Bartholomew Whitefeld and EHzabeth 
his wife were deforciants.^ And on the Patent Rolls in 1478 we find a 
pardon to William Calthorp, Sir Thomas Brews, William Pykenham, 
clerk, Roger Tounesend, John Fulyard, William Gurney, John Jermyn the 
younger, Esq., William Yarmouth, and Thomas Grygges, for having acquired 
the manor from John Hopton, deceased, and having at his request demised 
it to him and Thomasia his wife, and said William Pykenham, Roger, 
John, and John having released their estate in the manor to the said WiUiam 
and Thomas ; and there is on the same Rolls a licence to grant to Sir Thomas 
Mountgomery and others to fulfil the will of John Hopton.^ 

Thomasia the widow seems to have held the manor until her death in 
1499, when it passed to Sir Arthur Hopton, Knt., who died 15th Aug. 1555,' 
when it devolved on his son and heir. Sir Owen Hopton. He, with his son 
Arthur, sold the manor in 1588 to WiUiam Roberts, town clerk of Yarmouth, 
an attorney at Beccles,'" who held his first court for the manor this same 
year. Amongst the Chancery Proceedings in the time of Queen Elizabeth, 



'Feet of Fines, 11 Rich. II. 26. 

"O., 37 Edw. III. 12. 

3I.P.M., 7Rich. 11.68. 

"Pat. Rolls, 14 Rich. II. pt. ii. li: 

'Feet of Fines, 3 Hen. IV. 14. 



^7 Hen. IV. A. 5359. 
='Feet of Fines, 18 Hen. VI. 21. 
8 Pat. Rolls, 18 Edw. IV. pt. ii. 
9I.P.M., 2 and 3 Ph. and M. 62. 
"Fine, Mich. 31-32, Eliz. 



WISSETT. 207 

will be found a suit between William Roberts to protect his title to the 
manor, which sets forth his purchase from Sir Owen Hopton and Arthur his 
son.' 

On his death, the manor passed to his sister and heir, who married 
Simon Smith, a descendant of Sir Thurston Smith, of Cratfield, Knt., in 
which family it continued until the decease of Thomas, son and heir of 
Sir Owen Smith, Knt., in 1639, whose daughter and sole heir, Frances, 
married Charles, son of Major-General Charles Fleetwood, the Cromwellian 
soldier. 

Amongst the State Papers in 1655 is a petition of Charles Fleetwood, 
then Lord Deputy of Ireland, to the Protector, to be released from the 
purchase of the manor, he having the reversion by entail and Act of Pariia- 
ment, and having contracted for the purchase of Sir Ralph Hopton's life 
interest, who was then 60 years of age, and having died at the time the 
second half of the purchase money was to be paid."" 

Page says that in 1648 SimonSmith,of Winston, in Norfolk, settled the 
entire estate of the Smiths on them (that is, the Fleetwoods and their 
heirs). From the Major-General the manor passed to his son and heir, 
Smith Fleetwood, whose will is dated 1697. Smith, the 2nd son of Smith 
Fleetwood, resided at Wood Balling, in Norfolk, where he died, and was 
buried in 1726. Elizabeth his only child married Fountain Elwin, of 
Thurning, in Norfolk. On her death in 1732 the manor devolved on her 
three aunts, daughters of the said Smith Fleetwood — Frances, CaroUne and 
Jane. In 1761 Jane, the youngest daughter, still a spinster, was lady of 
the manor. On the death of Jane Fleetwood, the manor passed by devise 
to her kinswoman, Anne, only daughter of Joseph Henlock, by Anne his wife, 
daughter and sole heir of Sir John Hartopp. 

She married Edmund Bunney, who assumed the surnames of Cradock 
and Hartopp, and on her death the manor passed to her son, Sir Edmund 
Cradock-Hartopp, Bart., of Freathby, in the county of Leicester, created 
a Baronet 12th May, 1796. Sir Edmund died loth June, 1833, and his eldest 
son, George Harry William, M.P. for Dundalk, having died unmarried in 
his father's lifetime in 1824, the manor passed to his 2nd son. Sir Edmund 
Hartopp, 2nd Bart., who married the Hon. Mary Jane Eden, daughter of 
Morton, ist Lord Henley, by whom he had no issue, and dying 3rd April, 
1849, the lordship passed to his brother. Sir William Edmund, 3rd Bart., 
who married Jane Mary, eldest daughter of Henry Bloomfield Keane, 
and had with other issue a son John William. Sir William Hartopp died 
i6th Oct. 1864, and the manor passed to his eldest son. Sir John William 
Cradock Hartopp, of Freathby, co. Leicester, 4th Bart., who married 
Charlotte Frances, eldest daughter of Edward Gyles Howard, nephew of 
Bernard Edward, 12th Duke of Norfolk. Sir John seems to have sold the 
manor, for in 1875 it was vested in F. Charsley, and in 1896 in Henry 
Calthorp Hollo way Cal thorp, of Stanhope Hall, King's Lynn, co. Norfolk, 
son of Lieutenant-Col. James HoUoway, D.L., and J. P. for Norfolk, and 
Mary Esther his wife, daughter of John Calthorp, of Stantive HaU, J. P., and 
D.L. Mr. HoUoway assumed the name of Calthorp on succeeding to his 
maternal grandfather in 1877 ^^^ ^^ ^^79 married Wilhelmina, youngest 
daughter of David Rabston, of Bothwell, N.B. 

Arms of Hartopp : Sa, a chevron, Arg., between three others passant Arg. 
Of Cradock : Per saltire Gu. and Arg. crusilly and three boars' heads, 

'C.P. ii. 372. == State Papers, 1655, p. 314. 



2o8 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

two and one, couped, counterchanged. Of Holloway-Calthorp : Quarterly 
1st and 4th chequy Or. andSa, a fesse nebuly between two bars gemel Erm. 
(for Calthorp), and 2nd and 3rd Gul. between four crescents, three in chief 
and one in base Or, on a fesse of the last three pallets Sa. 

Manor of Blenche's. 

This is stated to have been the lordship of Henry Blench in 1275. 
In 1574 it was held by Edward Wilkinson, from whom it passed that year to 
Francis Windam.' It then passed to the Norton family, and Robert 
Norton, of Halesworth, is said to have died seised, and in 1561 we meet 
with a fine levied of the manor in 1584 by Henry Norton against Robert 
Hurth and others."" But it is stated that on the death of Robert Norton the 
manor passed to his son and heir Walter Norton, of Chediston, at whose 
death in 1609 ^^ went to his son and heir, Henry Norton, on whose death 
in 1638 it vested in his son and heir Walter Norton.^ 

Rentals for this manor in 1656, 1690, and 1714 are given in the Davy 
MSS." In 1656 the rents were £2. i6s. -^d., in 1690 £2. 14s. lod., and in 
1714 £2. 14s. Ad. 



'Fine, Easter, 16 Eliz. ^See Manor of Bavents, in Chediston, in 

^ Fine' Easter,' 26 Eiiz. this Hundred. 

*Add MSS. 19083, p. 172. 




WRENTHAM. 209 

WRENTHAM. 

JHE whole of the land in this place was at the time of the 
Great Survey held by William de Varennes. There are six 
several manors mentioned and the details given are very 
minute. Most of the manors consisted of about 2 carucates, 
but the largest of 3. This largest manor was held in the 
Confessor's time by Halden, a freeman, and there were 
attached to it 6 villeins, 11 bordars, 3 serfs, 3 ploughteams 
in demesne, 2 belonging to the tenants, 2 acres of meadow, wood sufficient 
for 40 hogs, valued at £4. By the time of the Survey the value was £3, 
the villeins had come down to 4, and the serfs to i, but the bordars had 
increased to 13, and there were in addition 7 beasts, 24 hogs, 80 sheep, and 
30 goats. This manor was then held by William, son of Rainald, of the 
said WiUiam de Varennes. 

The second manor, consisting of 2 carucates of land, was held in the 
Confessor's time by Edric, a freeman, and there were 5 villeins, 11 bordars, 
6 serfs, a ploughteam and a half in demesne, 3 belonging to the tenants, 
wood sufficient for the support of 20 hogs, 2 acres of meadow; also a 
church with 40 acres. The value was the same in Saxon and Norman times, 
viz., 40S., but at the time of the Survey the serfs had come down half ; 
there was an additional half-ploughteam in demesne, but one less belonging 
to the tenants. Additionally, too, by this time there were attached to this 
manor 13 beasts, 12 hogs, 113 sheep, and 20 goats, and 5 hives of bees. 

A third manor was held in the Confessor's time byTurchil, with 2 caru- 
cates. There were 5 villeins, 11 bordars, 2 ploughteams which could be 
made up on the demesne, but only i when William de Varennes took over 
the manor, 2 acres of meadow, and wood sufficient for the support of 20 hogs, 
all valued at 40s. 

A fourth manor was held in Saxon times by Woolrich, a freeman, with 
2 carucates. There were 5 villeins, 11 bordars, i ploughteam in demesne 
(but another might have been made up) and 2 belonging to the tenants, 2 
acres of meadow, wood sufficient for 20 hogs, all valued at 40s. There 
was also a church with 8 acres. 

These last three manors were held by Robert de Petroponteof Wm. de 
Varennes, and he also held here 20 freemen with 360 acres and 2 bordars, 
having 6 ploughteams in demesne, valued at 60s. Over one of these men 
Earl Alan had half commendation and half the land and soc and sac, and 
over all the land the soc and sac lay in Blythburgh Hundred. 

The fifth manor was held by a freeman holding half a carucate, and under 
him he had two freemen with 10 acres and a bordar. There was to this 
manor one ploughteam in demesne and half a ploughteam belonging to the 
tenants, wood for 4 hogs, half an acre of meadow, 2 rouncies, 6 beasts, 10 
hogs, 30 sheep, and 20 goats, valued at los. 

The sixth manor was that of Aluric, of Sanford, consisting of 50 acres 
to which manor were attached 2 bordars, i ploughteam in demesne, an 
acre of meadow, i rouncy, 4 beasts, 8 hogs, 60 sheep, and 7 goats, 
valued at 105. 

The only other holding in this place was that of 8 freemen, who had 
a carucate and a half and 10 acres of land, and one bordar with 2 plough- 
teams in demesne, always valued at 12s. The last two manors mentioned 

CI 



210 



THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 




WRENTHAM. 211 

and the 8 freemen were all held at the time of the Domesday Survey by 
William, son of Rainald, of WiUiam de Varennes the tenant in chief/ 

Both the manors of Wrentham known as South Hall and North Hall, 
and held respectively by the families of Pierrepoint and Poynings, were 
held by them of the family of the Earl of Pembroke." In the year 1325 
we find an order on the Close Rolls to deliver to Mary, late wife of Aymer 
de Valencia, Earl of Pembroke, two fees in Wrentham and Cove, which 
Michael de Poynynges holds of the yearly value of £10, assigned in dower,^ 
and a like order at the same time as to two fees in Wrentham and Covehithe, 
held by Simon de Pierpoint of the yearly value of £io^ 

Manor of Wrentham, Perpounds, al. South Hall. 

This was the manor held by Edric in Saxon times, and the estate of 
WiUiam de Warennes in the time of the Conqueror, being held at that time 
of the latter by Robert Pierpoint, from whom it passed to his son and heir, 
William de Pierrepoint, and from this time to the death of Gregory, loth 
Lord Dacre, probably passed in the same course as the Manor of Benacre, 
in this Hundred. 

From the Quo Warranto Rolls we learn that Robert de Pierrepont had 
free warren and wreck of the sea here,^ and that Simon claimed the same.^ 
In 1331 a fine was levied of this manor in which Nicholas de Cantebrigg, 
parson of Ferditton Church, and Clement Torald, parson of Wrentham 
Church, were pit. against this Simon de " Perpunt."^ 

The manor is mentioned in the inquisition p.m. of Joan, widow of Sir 
Richard Fienes, Lord Dacre, who died in 1486,^ when Thomas Fienes, jun.. Lord 
Dacre, her grandson and heir, succeeded to the lordship. His will is dated 
1531, and on his death in 1534 ^^^ manor passed to his grandson and heir, 
Sir Thomas Fienes, the elder Lord Dacre, who was executed in 1541. 
Davy states that he left the manor to his cousin Thomas Fienes, and in 1539, 
he makes Thomas Fienes, Lord Dacre, son and heir apparent of the cousin, 
lord. This however does not seem to be correct, for Thomas Fienes, Lord 
Dacre in 1539, was the grandson of the Thomas, Lord Dacre, who died in 
1534. He did no doubt have the lordship, and on his execution in 1541, 
as mentioned in the account of the Manor of Benacre, in this Hundred, his 
widow, Lady Mary, the daughter of George, Lord Abergavenny, obtained 
the manor, and held a court for it in 1553, with her 2nd husband, Francis 
Thursley, and the manor passed on her death to her son Gregory, Lord 
Dacre, loth Baron, the last of the Fienes name, her eldest son, Thomas, 
having died young. This Gregory, Lord Dacre, in 1570 had licence to ahenate 
the manor to Roger Manwood and his heirs as trustee. 

Under the settlement or assurance of 1570 the manor seems to have 
vested in Sir Henry Norris, Lord Norris, of Rycot, son of Henry Norris by 
Mary his wife, daughter of the Thomas Lord Dacre, who died in i534, for 
he and his wife Margery held their first court for the manor in 1572, and 

' Dom. ii. 399. = H R. ii. 148. 

"See I.P.M., Adomarus de Valencia, E. ^Q.W. 724. 

of Pembroke and Maria his wife, ''Feet of Fines, 5 Edw. III. 38. This fine 
17 Edw. II. 75. included the advowson also of the 

3 Close Rolls, 18 Edw. II. 14. Churches of Wrentham and Ben- 

*Ib acre and Henstead. 

8I.P.M., 2 Hen. VII. 190. 



212 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

three years later had Hcence to alienate to Humphrey Brewster, which 
alienation was effected by fine levied in 1576.' 

Amongst the Chancery Proceedings of the time of Queen Elizabeth 
will be found an action by Thomas Butts against this Humphrey Brewster 
and others respecting lands in Wrentham, held of the Lord Dacre as of 
his Manor of Southall, freeholds and copyholds, Brewster then being 
lord.^ 

Humphrey Brewster^ died in 1593, when the manor passed to his son 
and heir, Francis Brewster. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert 
SneUing, of Whatfield, and died in 1644, when the manor passed to his son 
and heir, Robert Brewster. He was a member of the Long Parhament 
which dethroned the Monarch, being the representative for the Borough of 
Dunwich in the place of Henry Coke, disabled for his loyalty. 

The writ issued for his election by vote of the House bears date Sept. 
2nd, 1645. The Brewsters were in a good position for some time prior 
to the purchase by Humphrey Brewster of this manor, but they appear to 
have attained their highest elevation, as Mr. Page observes, during the 
Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, to whose party Robert Brewster, the then 
possessor of Wrentham Hall, was a warm advocate. 

In the Candler notes amongst the Tanner MSS. in the Bodleian it is 
said that Brewster's estate was about £700 per annum, and after his pur- 
chase of Ludham, the seat of the Bishop of Norwich, about ;fi,ooo per 
annum. He married a sister of Sir John Corbet, of Sprowston, in Norfolk, 
Knt. and Bart. Candler also mentions that he had a brother, Francis 
Brewster, also Hving in Wrentham, who was a counsellor at law and justice 
of the peace. Robert Brewster died in 1663, and the manor passed to his son 
Francis, who married Cecily, daughter and coheir of Sir Charles Crofts, of 
Bardwell, Knt. 

On Francis's death the manor passed to his cousin, Phihp Brewster, 
who died in 1710, when it went to his son and heir, Humphrey Brewster, 
who died in 1735, when it devolved on his son and heir Philip, who dying in 
1765, it passed to his son and heir, Humphrey, who died unmarried in 1797. 

On the sudden death of Humphrey Brewster, the estates passed to 
Frances Meadows, widow, and John Wilkinson, aunt and first cousin of the 
deceased, by whom they were sold in 1810 to Sir Thomas Gooch, of Benacre 
Hall.'* He took down the Hall which had been erected by the Brewsters 
in the time of Edw. VL, and sold the materials by public auction in August, 
1810. 

Sir Thomas Gooch died in 1826, and was succeeded by his son and 
heir. Sir Thos. Sherlock Gooch, Bart. According to Kirby, Page and Davy, 
the lordship subsequently became vested in the Earl of Stradbroke, 
but this does not seem to be the case. It has descended in a like course 
with the Manor of Benacre, from the purchase in 1810 by Sir Thomas Gooch, 
and is now vested in his representative. Sir Thomas Vere Sherlock Gooch, 
loth Bart., of Benacre. 

Amongst the Chancery Proceedings of the time of Queen Elizabeth 
will be found an action by Adrian Smythe against Thomas Morsse for relief 

'Fine, Hil. 18 Eliz. entries of Brewsters, with other 

^C.P. i. 78. interesting information respecting 

3 Davy gives extracts from the parish them Brit. Mus. Add. MSS. 19083, 

registers of Wrentham between p. 218. 

1602 and 1797, and there are 92 ''See Benacre Manor, in this Hundred. 



WRENTHAM. 



213 



against a fraudulent contract touching three closes of land in Wrentham, 
in the Manor of SouthalL' 

The " Manor of Wrentham " is included in a fine levied of Northals 
Wymples in Thorington, Covehithe, Benacre, &c., in 1564, by Sir Richard 
Sakevyle and others against Philip Fynes." 

Arms of Brewster : Sable, a chevron Ermine betw. 3 stars of 6 points. 
Or. 

Manor of Wrentham, Northall, or Poinings. 

This manor was that held by William, son of Rainald, of William de 
Varennes or de Warein at the time of the Domesday Survey. In 1292 it 
was vested in Luke or Lucas de Poynings, who had a grant of free warren 
here that year.^ 

In the next reign we find Luke de Poynings claiming assize of bread 
and beer here,* and in 1273 there was an action between him and Robert 
de Perpoint, the lord of Southall Manor, touching a tenement in Wrentham.^ 

In 1294 Michael de Poynings was lord, and his holding in Wrentham 
consisted of two fees. The 8th June this year he received summons 
amongst the great men to attend the King touching the important affairs 
of the realm, and served first in France and subsequently in the wars in 
Scotland in the retinue of John, Earl of Warren. He was mostly engaged 
in warfare during the latter years of the reign of Edw. I. and the beginning 
of Edw. II. In 131 1 a fine was levied of the manor by Michael de " Ponyngg" 
and Margaret his wife, against Thomas de " Ponyngg," which included the 
Manor of Smalebrigg.* 

Michael was succeeded by his son and heir Thomas de Poynings, 
who (summoned to Parliament 23rd April, 1337), having married Agnes, 
one of the coheirs of John, the son of Bartholomew de Cryol, was slain in the 
great sea fight with the French at Sluse in 1339,'' being succeeded by his son 
and heir, Michael de Poynings, then 22 years of age. 

There would appear to be something wrong about the age if what 
Dugdale^ says be correct. Referring to Michael, slain in the battle at Sluse, 
he says: " Losing his life therefore in that perilous encounter, the King by 
his letters patent bearing date at Mont-martin upon the 14th of the same 
month, acknowledging his great valor and eminent merits, and that he 
was slain in his service, received the homage of Michael his son and heir, 
though then under age, and in recompense of those his father's sufferings, not 
only granted unto . him livery of his lands, but the full benefit of his 
marriage, taking security for the payment of his relief." 

This Michael served with distinction in the wars in Flanders, and later 
in Brittany, with 15 men at arms Like himself, four knights, 10 esquires, 
and 12 archers, having an allowance of 21 sacks of the King's wool for their 
wages in that service. In 1344 he was in the wars in France and was 
present at the great battle of Cressy. In 1352 he granted a yearly rent 
of £20 out of the manor to Joan, late wife of William le Band, and 
Miles le Frenshe, and Joan's heirs.' In 1366 he gave 1,000 marks to 
Queen Phihppa for the wardship and marriage of William, son and heir of 
John, Lord Bardolph, with the object of marr5dng him to his own daughter 
Agnes. 

'C.P. iii. 41. 

^Fine, Hil. 6 Eliz. 

3 Chart. Rolls, 56 Hen. III. i. 

*Q.W. 728. 

5 Pat. Rolls, 2 Edw. I. 14. 



^Feet of Fines, 4 Edw. II.|2o. 
^Extent, I.P.M., 13 Edw. III. 37. 
^Vol. ii. 134. 
9 Close Rolls, 26 Edw._^III. zd. 



214 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

By his will dated Friday next after the feast of St. Matthew the 
Apostle, 1368, he bequeathed his body to be buried at Poynings, in Sussex, 
near the grave of his mother, southward, and gave towards the building of a 
new church there 200 marks. To him who should be his heir he bequeathed 
a ring of ruby, which ring was called the " Charter of Poinings," with the 
furniture of his chapel and all his armour, which his father had formerly 
bequeathed to him. Also a pair of " basyns " and ewers of silver twelve 
new dishes, and 12 saucers of silver. To Margaret, his daughter, 400 marks 
to her marriage. He also appointed that two annets should be sung for 
his soul, the one at Poynings, the other at Slagham, and gave to the Friars 
Carmelites at Shorham towards the building of their church ;£20, con- 
stituting Joan his wife one of his executors. 

He died 7th March, 1369,' leaving by Joan his wife, widow of Sir John 
de Molyns, Knt., a son and heir, Thomas, aged 20, to whom the lordship 
passed. There is an extent of the manor under the name of Northalle, 
and it is included in an escheat of William de Elyngton in 1377.^ 

Joan, the widow, by her will, which is dated the Friday after Ascension 
Day, 1369, desires to be buried in the Church of Poynings, in Sussex, near 
her husband Michael, Lord Poynings, towards the north. She also gave to 
the new building of that church 100 marks, and to Thomas her son 100 
marks, until he should be of full age, and then to be also given towards the 
buildings of the same church. To Elizabeth, her daughter, a drinking cup 
of silver, with a cover enamelled and gilt, as also an ewer of the same sort. 
To Richard, her other son, two basins, and two ewers of silver, and further 
to the said Thomas and Richard, and also to Agnes her daughter, four 
pieces of silver of one pattern. She died i6th May following. 

Thomas, the year following his father's death, did homage, and had 
livery of his lands. He made tus will dated St. Simon and St. Jude's Day 
(28th Oct.), 1374, directing his body to be buried in the midst of the Quire 
of the Abbey of St. Radegunds, in Kent (of which he was patron), before 
the High Altar, appointing that a fair tomb should be placed over Ms grave, 
with the image of a knight thereon, made of alabaster, and 100 pounds to 
be given to that abbey, part for the tomb and the remainder to be disposed 
of in masses and prayers for his soul. He gave to Blanch de Mowbray, his 
wife, the third part of his goods, and with all his plate and household stuff, 
excepting a cup of gold for the Lady Bardolf his sister, and another for the 
Lady Dacom, his other sister. To Richard his brother he bequeathed 12 
dishes, and as many saucers of silver, with all his armour, appointing that 
10 annets and trentals of Gregorie should be sung in the Churches of Poyn- 
ings and Slagham within one year of his death. He died in 1375,' without 
issue, leaving Blanche de Mowbray, his wife, surviving, to whom a third 
of the manor passed in dower, and Richard his brother and heir, subject to her 
interest, took the manor. 

Blanche did not die, as alleged in the Davy MSS. in 1378, but 
remarried Sir John de Worth, Knt., and a fine was levied of one third part 
of the manor in 1380 by Sir Richard de Poynings, Knt., against this John 
de Worth and Blanche his wife deforciants.^ This same year Richard 
made proof of his age, when he did homage and had livery of his lands. 

He married Isabel, daughter and heir of Robert Lord Fitz Pain, and 
also heir to her mother, Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir Guy de Brian. 



'I.P.M., 43 Edw. III. pt. ii. 14. n.I>M., 49 Edw. III. pt. ii. 27. 

'I.P.M., 51 Edw. III. 2nd nos. 28. ^Feet of Fines, 4 Rich. II. 34. 



WRENTHAM. 215 

Richard, 4th Lord Poynings, by his will dated loth June, 1387, 
bequeathed his body to be buried in the parish church of Poynings, on the 
right hand of the tomb of Thomas, Lord Poynings, his brother, and gave 
10 marks for the celebration of 20 trentals for his soul and all Christian souls 
within the space of one year after his death. To Joane, his daughter, for 
her marriage, 200 marks. To the infant wherewith his wife was then with 
child, in case it should be a daughter ;^ioo, appointing that if he should dye 
in such a place as that his body could not be buried at Poynings, to the end 
that his friends afar off might take notice thereof, there should be a stone 
of marble provided with a shield of his arms, and a helment under his head, 
with an inscription declaring his name and the time of his death. He 
declared that the Lady Isabel his wife should have the Manor of 
Wrentham called Northalle, during her Hfe. He died the same year, and 
his will was proved 26th Sept. 1387.' 

Upon the death of Isabel, nth April, 1394/ the manor passed to her 
son Robert. He was a minor at the time of his father's death, and also at 
the time of his mother's death, not having livery of his lands until 10 Hen. IV. 

Robert, 5th Lord Poynings, was engaged in the wars in France during 
the reigns of Hen. IV., V., and VI., and had also summons to Parliament 
from the 5th of Hen. IV. to the 23rd of Hen. VI. inclusive. 

In 1436 a fine was levied of the manor in which John Frank, clerk, 
William Chauntrell, Robert Cavendyssh, John Hody, Thomas Lysores, clerk, 
Richard Coroner, clerk, John Fooche, clerk, William Clerk, clerk, Thomas 
Groveherst, and John Norton were pits., and Sir Robert " Ponynges " was 
deforciant.^ Sir Robert married Elizabeth or Eleanor, daughter of Reginald, 
Lord Grey de Ruttyn, and was finally slain at the siege of Orleans, 2nd 
Oct. 1446,'^ when his son Richard Poynings, having died in his father's 
lifetime, leaving by Alianore his wife, daughter of Sir John Berkeley, of 
Beverstone, Knt., an only daughter and heir Eleanor, she became heir to 
her grandfather, and it is said ultimately succeeded to the lordship. Page 
styles Eleanor the " cousin " instead of the granddaughter of Robert, Lord 
Poynings, and says the manor descended to her. But this seems doubtful, 
and the greater probability is that it passed to Sir Robert's 2nd son, Robert 
Poynings, for he held what is said to be his first court for the manor in 1446. 
There seems to have been some transaction in the time of this Robert not 
known to us, for the manor is found mentioned in the inquisition p.m. of 
John de Mowbray 3rd Duke of Norfolk, and Eleanor his wife, in 1461,' and 
there is the exemplification of the tenour of an assignment of the manor in 
1469 on the Patent Rolls. "^ Robert died 17th Feb. 1469-70, and the manor 
passed to his son and heir, Edward Poynings. A first court however for the 
manor was in 1469 held by Thomas Stailord and others, probably as trustees, 
for the first court of Sir Edward Poynings was not held until the year 1489. 
He was a most active and expert soldier, and adhering to the Earl of Rich- 
mond against Rich. III., was after the victory at Bosworth made one of the 
Privy Council, and in 1490 was one of the chief commanders sent in aid of 
Maximillian the Emperor, against the French. In 1504 he was appointed 
Constable of Dover Castle. He was the third of eighteen counsellors 
bequeathed by Hen. VII. to his son, with his kingdom, a privy council in 
which it is said there was not one lawyer, and a complete body of active 

•I.P.M., II Rich. II. 43; 15 Rich. II. *I.P.M., 25 Hen. VI. 24. 

pt. i. 33. =I.P.M., I Edw. IV. 46. 

'I.P.M., 17 Rich. II. 46. 6 Edw. IV. pt. ii. 4, 3. 

3 Feet of Fines, 14 Hen. VI. 24. 



2i6 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

and knowing men in their own orb. In 1513^ being then a Knight of the 
Garter^ he was with the King at the siege and taking of Theronene of which 
he was left governor. He is described as having " a serious and plodding 
brow, that bespoke his deep prudence, and a smart look which denoted 
the resolved valour." 

He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Scot, Knt., but had issue 
one son only, John, who died in his father's lifetime. Sir Edward Poynings 
died in 1523, when the manor passed, according to Davy, to Henry Percy, 
Earl of Northumberland, son and heir of Alianore or Eleanor, the heiress 
of her grandfather, she having married Sir Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of 
Northumberland, who was slain at Towton Field, 29th March, 1461. 

Of course, this is absurd, as the son and heir of Alianore had been in his 
grave for over 30 years in 1523. The manor did go to the Ear] of 
Northumberland, but it was to the 5th Earl, Henry Algernon Percy, who 
had, as it is said, " the happiness to die in his bed, which not one of the 
preceding Earls had done," in 1527. Upon the 5th Earl of Northumber- 
land's death the manor passed to his eldest son, Henry Algernon Percy, 
6th Earl, K.G., who married Mary, daughter of George Talbot, Earl of 
Shrewsbury, and sold the manor in 1529 to Robert Ratcliffe, Viscount 
Fitz Walter,' who married ist Elizabeth, daughter of Henry, Duke of 
Buckingham ; 2ndly Lady Margaret Stanley, daughter of Thomas, Earl 
of Derby ; and 3rdly, Mary daughter of Sir John Arundel, of Lanherne, 
in Cornwall. His lordship seems in his lifetime to have given this manor 
to his 3rd son, Sir Humphrey Ratcliffe, Knt., as in 1536 he held a first court. 
He is described as of Elnestow, in the county of Bedford, and left issue a 
son, who eventually succeeded to the title as 4th Earl of Sussex ; but it 
seems that on the death of Sir Humphrey in the lifetime of his father this. 
particular manor reverted to his father, Robert Ratcliffe, Earl of Sussex. 
Possibly there had never been any assurance from father to son. 

The ist Ratchffe, Earl of Sussex,^ was a favourite both with Hen. VH. 
and Hen. VHL, and an account of him is given under Shimpling Manor, in 
Babergh Hundred. He died 26th Nov. 1542,^ leaving a son. Sir Henry 
Ratcliffe, who succeeded as 2nd Earl of Sussex. He died 17th Feb. 1556, 
leaving three sons who were successively Earls of vSussex. The eldest son, 
Sir Thomas Ratcliffe, became 3rd Earl of Sussex. Sir Robert Naunton, 
in his " Fragmenta Regalia," describes him "as a goodly gentleman, 
of a brave noble nature and constant to his friends and servants," and 
goes on to state " that there was such an antipathy in his nature to that of 
the Earl of Leicester's, that being together at court, and both in high 
employments, they grew to direct forwardness, and were in continual 
opposition, the one setting the watch and the other the sentinel, each 
on the other's actions and motions ; for this Earl of Sussex was of great 
spirit, which, backed with the queen's special favour, and supported by a 
great and antient inheritance, could not brook the other's empire, inso- 
much as the queen, upon sundry occasions, had somewhat to do to appease 
and attain them until death parted the competition and left the place to 
Leicester." Upon his death-bed his lordship is said by the same authority 
thus to have addressed his friends : "I am now passing into another 
world, and I must leave you to your fortunes and the queen's grace and 

'Fine, Trin. 21 Hen. VIII. n.VM., 34 Hen. VIII. 118. 

*See Shimpling Manor, in Babergh Hun- 
dred. 



WRENTHARI. 217 

goodness ; but beware of the gipsey (meaning Leicester) for he will be too 
hard for you all ; you know not the beast as well as I do." The Earl in 
1567 sold the lordship to Arthur Chute or Choute/ who sold it in 1577 to 
Humphrey Brewster." Humphrey Brewster died seised in 1593, after 
which the devolution is identical with the other manor of Wrentham 
we have already traced. " Wrentham Manor " is included in a fine levied 
in 1560 by Carohne Gryce against Sir Humphrey Radchff and others.^ 

Arms of Poynings : Barry of six, Or and Vert, a bend Gu. 



'Fine, Mich. 9 Eliz. ^Fine, Mich. 2Ehz. 

'Fine, Mich. 19-20 Ehz. 

DI 




2iS THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

Y OXFORD. 

jHERE were two manors here in the time of King Edward the 
Confessor, one of considerable extent, being lo quarantenes 
long and 7 broad. This large manor was held in Saxon 
times by Manning, and contained 5 carucates of land. 
There were then 12 villeins, 2 bordars, i serf, 2 ploughteams 
in demesne, and 3 belonging to the tenants, wood sufficient 
for 30 hogs, 20 acres of meadow, i rouncy, 7 beasts, and 
30 hogs, all valued at 40s. By the time of the Survey the value was placed 
at 60s., but there are no indications of increased prosperity. On the 
contrary, the villeins had come down to 9, and the bordars had all 
disappeared. This holding paid in a gelt -^d., and was the estate of Robert 
de Todeni as Domesday tenant in chief.' 

The other manor belonged to Roger Bigot, having been held in the 
Confessor's time by Norman the Thane with 100 acres. There were 4 
villeins, 7 bordars, i serf, 3 ploughteams in demesne and 3 belonging to the 
men, 5 acres of meadow, 3 rouncies, 5 hogs, and 12 sheep. It was valued 
always at 40s. By the time of the Survey one of the ploughteams in 
demesne and one of those belonging to the tenants had disappeared, and 
there was one rouncy less, but an addition of 7 beasts. The manor was 
then held by Hugh de Corbun of Roger Bigot. To the manor had been 
added 5 freemen, over whom in the Confessor's time the said Norman had 
commendation, and they had 14 acres and half a ploughteam, valued at 2s. 
Over all the said Norman had the soc. There had been also added to the 
manor two freemen from the King's soc, nam_ely, Algar and Edwin, under 
commendation to Aylward, the King's provost in the Confessor's time, 
with 7 acres and a team of two oxen, valued at i.^d.' 

Manor of Yoxford, since called Yoxford with the Members. 

This manor extends into the parishes of Yoxford, Middleton, and 
Sibton, and was held in Saxon times by Norman the Thane, and in the 
Conqueror's day by Hugo de Corbun under Roger Bigot. Shortly after 
the Great Survey William de Pirnho, who held under Roger Bigot lands 
of Pirnho, in Norfolk, settled here, and held the lordship. He was succeeded 
by a William de Pirnho in the time of Hen. I., who was a person of con- 
siderable account at Court, and witnessed a charter of that King to the 
Abbey of Ramsey with Gilbert Fitz Richard and others of note. He was 
succeeded by another William de Pirnho, and he by his son Reginald de 
Pirnho, who by a charter, undated, confirmed to the monks of Sibton all 
the lands which Robert Aldred had given them in Stikingland. 

He was succeeded by his brother, Wilham de Pirnho, who in 1239 
released to Roger Bigot, Earl of Norfolk, by fine, his right of fisheries 
from the Mill of Cliff and the Bridge of Bungay, the Earl granting him a 
fishery from Bungay Bridge to the Earl's vineyard. 

In 1250 it appears from a fine then levied that Roger Bigot had the 
custody of Sara, the daughter of this William de Pirnho, then deceased. 
Sara married James de Creke, and they had in 1257 this Manor of Yoxford 
conveyed to them by fine from Geffrey le Neve, of Yoxford, and Catherine 
his wife, it being the inheritance of William de Pirnho, her father.^ James 

'Dom. ii. 4296. 3 Feet of Fines, 41 Hen. III. g. 

*Dom. ii. 334&. 



YOXFORD. 



219 



de Creke held " bortrem " here/ and claimed warren, view of frankpledge, 
and assize of bread and beer in Yoxford." There is a bequest of goods 
in Yoxford Manor, Gilb. de Crek, in 1282, amongst the Campbell MSS.in 
the Brit. Mus/ 

In 1286 Alice, daughter of William de Pirnho, released to John de 
Creke, son of James, her right in certain messuages and lands in Yoxford, 
Burgh and Grundisburgh, and four years later William, son and heir of 
Sara de Pirnho, granted by fine two parts of the lordship of Yoxford, 
Middleton, and Burgh, and the reversion of the third part, which Joan, 
late wife of John de Creke held in dower to Robert, son and heir of Hugh 
de Swillington and Helewise his wife, and his heirs. This Sara and Helewise 
were sisters. Amongst the Patent Rolls of the time of Edw. I. will be 
found an entry of an action between Alice, daughter of William de Pirnho 
and James de Crek, as to possessions in Yoxford.* 

The documents above show this descent. 

William de Pirnho 

t. Will. I. 
William de Pirnho 

t. Hen. I. 

William de Pirnho 

I 



I 
Reginald de Pirnho 



William de Pirnho 



Sara= James de Creke Alice 
I 1257 



Helewise= Hugh de Swillington 



I 
John de Creke = Joan 
d.s.p. 



William Robert de Swillington. 



In 1294 the manor was held by Robert de SwilHngton, who had a 
grant of free warren here that year.^ From this time to the time of Sir 
Arthur Hopton, who succeeded his father in 15 91, the devolution of the 
manor is the same with that of the Manor of Blythburgh, in this Hundred. 

In the inquisition p.m. of Sir Roger SwiUmgton, jun.,in 1418,^ the manor 
is called "Stykeland Manor," as it is also in that of Joan his wife in 1428,' 
where an extent of the manor is given. An extent is also given and the 
manor named in like terms in 1430 in the inquisition p.m. of Margaret, 
wife of Sir John Gra.^ 

In 1597 the manor was acquired by Sir Robert Brooke, Knt.,^ alderman 
of London, who died in 1600, and was buried in the Church of St. Mary, 
Woolchurch. There seems to have been a dif&culty and disagreement 
over this sale. Amongst the Chancery Proceedings of Queen Elizabeth we 
find an action by Arthur Hopton against Robert Brooke and Robert Brooke 
his son, to whom he had sold the lands of his father. Sir Owen Hopton, 
Arthur Hopton charging the defendants with fraud.'" 

There is also amongst the same Proceedings a bill by the said Arthur 
Hopton against Arthur Mylls to redeem certain manors and lands." The 
action does not appear to have had the effect of setting aside the sale, for 
we find that on the death of his father. Sir Robert Brooke, in 1600, Sir 
Robert, the son, succeeded, holding a court 7th Oct. 1636, and on his death, 
loth July, 1646, the manor passed to his widow, Elizabeth, Lady Brooke, 



'H.R. ii. 147, 197. 
"Q.W. 722. 
•^Campb. iii. i. 
-•Pat. Rolls, 9 Edw. I. 
5 Chart. Rolls, 22 Edw. I. 
6I.P.M., 5 Hen. V. 46. 



ir. 



7I.P.M., 6 Hen. VI. 52. 

n.PM., 8 Hen. VI. 40. 

5 See Aspal Manor, in Hartismere Hun- 
dred. 
"C.P. ii. 13. 
"C.P. ii. 62. 



220 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

daughter of Thomas Culpepper, of Wigsale, who held her first court for the 
manor 7th Oct. 1646. 

She died 22nd July, 1683, at the age of 82, and was buried at Yoxford. 
A funeral sermon delivered at this ceremony was printed at Ipswich in 1684, 
and an account of her life and death added. The sermon was by Nathaniel 
Parkhurst, the then vicar of Yoxford. Her eldest son, Sir Robert Brooke, 
had died in France, being drowned in the Rhone in 1669, having had by his 
wife Anne Margaret, daughter of Sir Henry Mildmay, of Wansted, co. Essex, 
Knt., a daughter, of which her mother died in childbirth, both being placed 
in one grave at Yoxford 7th Jan. 1666. Her 2nd son, John, of Westwood 
Lodge, had died in 1652 without issue.' The manor consequently passed to 
her daughter, Mary Brooke, who held her first court 29th May, 1684, and 
died 8th Oct. 1693, when it passed to her nephew. Sir Charles Blois, son of Sir 
William Blois and Martha his wife, younger daughter of Sir Robert Brooke, 
of Cockfield Hall, who held his first court 7th April, 1694. The Blois family 
had been seated at Norton in this county from an early date, and had removed 
to Grundisburgh in the time of Henry VH. A Galfridus de Blois held lands 
in the time of Rich. I. 

The above-mentioned Sir William Blois, who married Sir Robert 
Brooke's daughter, was the great -great-grandson of the Richard Blois who 
settled at Grundisburgh, and died in 1559. Sir Charles Blois served in 
Parliament for Ipswich in 1690, and for Dunwich in 1701, being created a 
Baronet 15th April, 1686. 

From this time to the present the manor has devolved in the same 
course as the Manor of Blythburgh, in this Hundred, and is now vested in 
Sir Ralph Barrett Macnaughton Blois, 9th Bart., of Cockfield Hall. 

The quit rents of the manor in 1733 amounted to ^^31. 2s. qd., the 
leet fee was 2s. 4^^., and there were several rents in the lord's hands 
amounting to los. rod. In 1741 the quit rents were ^31. 15s. 2\d. Sir 
Charles Blois held his first court 15th July, 1738, the Rev. Ralph Blois 
7th April, 1760, and Sir John Blois 4th April, 1763. 

Manor of Cockfield Hall, now one of the Members of Yoxford. 

This manor was the manor of Manning in Saxon times, and formed 
part of the great holding in Yoxford of Robert deTodeni. In the latter 
part of the 13th century John de Creke conveyed this manor to Simon de 
Cokefeud, who had view of frankpledge hereand assize of bread and beer in the 
29th Edw. I.^ He died in 1318, and was succeeded by his son and heir, Sir 
Henry de Cokefield, at whose death in 1341 the manor passed to Sir Richard 
de Cokefield. A little later in 1359 we find the lordship vested in John 
de Norwich, who died in 1362, and was succeeded by his grandson and heir. 
Sir John de Norwich, who died without issue in 1374.^ In 1421 the manor 
was vested in John de Norwich, who in 1428 gave it to be sold. This seems 
to have been done, for in 1439 we meet with Sir John Fastolf, Knt., John 
Bernay, of Redeham, and John Lynford, of Stalham, as lords. In 1452 
Sir John Savile, Knt., released the manor to William Sharpie, and in 1462 
the manor seems to have vested in John Hopton, who died in 1480, and 
was succeeded by his son and heir. Sir John Hopton, who died in 1489, 
and was succeeded by his son, Sir WiUiam Hopton.* In 1508 Robert 

' He was buried at Yoxford, 6th Oct. 1652. * See Manor of Blythburgh, in this 
'Q.W. 732. Hundred. 

2 See Manor of Dalham, in Risbridge 
Hundred. 



YOXFORD. 221 

Cleere and others, feoffees, were lords of the manor, as trustees no doubt 
for the Hoptons, for the equitable interest appears to have been vested in 
Sir George Hopton, the son and heir of Sir William, and on his death in 
1490 passed to Sir Arthur Hopton, and on his death in 1555 vested in Sir 
Owen Hopton, who sold the manor to Sir Edmund Duke. In 1597 the 
manor was acquired by Sir Robert Brooke, citizen and alderman of London, 
and it has since devolved in the same course as the main manor, and the 
Manor of Blythburgh, in this Hundred, being now one of the members of 
Yoxford. In 1819 Sir Charles Blois told Davy that when Mr. Arcedeckne 
hired Cockfield Hall of his (Sir Charles's) father, there were a number of 
pictures in one of the garrets there, which being an incumbrance to the 
tenant were, with the consent of Sir John's trustees, sold by auction. 
Amongst them probably was the picture of Queen Catherine Parr, later in 
the possession of Dawson Turner. 

Sir John Blois was a diminutive person, and said to be equally so in 
mind, and being fond of play lost money, the greater part to a Mr. Fitzgerald, 
a well-known Irishman. His losses obhged him to let the Hall and reside 
on the Continent, where he remained several years. His principal creditor, 
however, Fitzgerald, having been hanged in Ireland for a murder committed 
at his instigation. Sir John was enabled to return to England, where he died 
in 1810. 

There is a fine of Yoxford, Cockfield, Meverell and Stikingland Manors 
levied in 1590 by William Robertes against Arthur Hopton and others ; 
but in the light of the deductions of title given, one can hardly regard this 
as effected on a sale of the beneficial interest.' 

Manor of Murrills, now one of the Members of Yoxford. 

Manorial rights were held here at the close of the 13th century by Adam 
de Muryel," and in 1349 Richard de Muriel died seised of lands here. This 
manor in the time of Richard II. became vested in Sir Robert de Swillington. 
" Murielhall," in Yoxford, is mentioned by name in the inquisition p.m. of 
this Robert de Swillington and Margaret his wife in 1391,^ and has since 
devolved in the same course as the main manor of Yoxford, certainly from 
1 60 1 having been regarded as one of its members. 

Amongst the Chancery Proceedings of the time of Queen Elizabeth 
is a claim by Robert Smyth in 1587 against Richard Spere and wife for 
discovery of lease, &c., as to messuages in Yoxford, parcels of the Manors of 
Cockfield, Brent fen and Muriells." 

Amongst the Tanner MSS. in the Bodleian we meet with a particular 
of " Kellshall Manor at Yoxford, in the County of Suffolk."^ 

Manor of Stikingland. 

A considerable amount of land is in the Domesday Survey entered 
as Stikingland. This is in Yoxford, and the land there was in three manors. 
Alwin here in King Edward's time held a carucate of land and 40 acres as 
a manor. There were 2 villeins and 4 bordars, and 40 acres, i ploughteam 
in demesne and i belonging to the men, 3 acres of meadow, i rouncy, 4 
beasts, i hog, and 16 sheep, all of the value of 25s. 

'Fine, Trin. 32 Eliz. ^CP. iii. 67. 

*H.R. ii. 197; Q-W. 722. 'Tanner, xcviii. 60. 

3I.P.M., 15 Rich. II. pt. i. 61. 



222 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

By the time of the Survey the value had risen to 30s., and there were 11 
bordars, and 2 ploughteams and a half belonging to the tenants. Over this 
lordship the predecessor of Robert Malet had commendation in Saxon times, 
and at the time of the Survey the lands were in the hands of Roger Bigot 
for the King.' 

The second manor was held by Robert Malet, and consisted of 40 acres 
which had been held as a manor in the Confessor's time by Stanwin, 2 
bordars, i ploughteam, and i acre of meadow of the value of los. This 
manor at the time of the Survey had only half a ploughteam, and the value 
was 8s. The King and the Earl had the soc, and the manor was held by 
Walter de Caen. There was also in the lordship a half freeman under 
commendation, with 8 acres valued at i2d. Here also was a freeman 
Talcha, under commendation in the Confessor's time, holding 10 acres 
valued at 20d.' Edric, a freemen, held 40 acres, with i bordar, and formerly 
I ploughteam, but at the time of the Survey none, of the value of 6s. M. 
This was held by Gilbert the Blond of Robert Malet.' 

The third manor in Stikingland was held in Saxon times by Suarthng, a 
freeman, and at the time of the Survey by Cus and Akile Sufreint, two 
freemen under Roger Bigot, and consisted of 80 acres. There was a plough- 
team in demesne and one belonging to the men, 6 bordars, 2 acres of meadow, 
4 beasts, 8 hogs, and 24 goats, always valued at i6s. This manor was a 
league long and 5 quarantenes broad, and it paid y^d. in a gelt. The King 
and the Earl had the soc. 

There were also here 5 freemen, who were Ulf's men — Goode, Alfwin 
his brother, Aluric son of Bond, Osketel, and Bond the smith. These 5 
held 60 acres and 2 acres of meadow, i bordar, and 2 ploughteams ; and a 
free woman, over whom Norman had commendation, held 20 acres. There 
was a bordar and also half a ploughteam, an acre of meadow, and a half 
freeman, with 8 acres of land. Likewise a church with 24 acres and i acre 
of meadow, valued at 19s. The King and the Earl had the soc, and Hugh 
de Curbun at the time of the Survey held of Roger Bigot. ^ Amongst the 
lands of the freemen under Roger Bigot are mentioned 9 acres here. 

The several manors of Stikingland gradually merged into one. The 
early history of this manor is not clear. We find Yoxford Manor mentioned 
in the inquisition p.m. of Alicia, wife of Roger de Evenyngham, in 1322,' 
of Edward le Despenser and Elizabeth his wife, daughter and heir of 
Bartholomew de Burghersh in 1375,^ and in that of Joan, wife of Henry 
Heveningham in 1394,^ and it is quite possible that the Manor of 
Stikingland may have been included or intended. 

The manor is mentioned by name in the inquisition p.m. of Roger 
Swillington, who died seised of it in 1417, when it passed to his wife Joan, 
in whose inquisition p.m. in 1428 an extent of the manor will be found. ^ 
The manor on Joan's death passed to Margaret, wife of Sir John Gra, 
daughter and heir of the above-mentioned Roger Swillington.^ The manor 
subsequently passed in the mode in which the other manors of Yoxford 
did to John Hopton, who died in I489, and passed on as did these manors to 
Sir Owen Hopton, and is expressly mentioned in the suit in which Arthur 

'Dom. ii. 2826. ^l.VM. 49 Edw. III. pt. ii. 46. 

^Dom. ii. 312, 313&. 'I.P.M., 18 Rich. II. 23. 

3/6. n.VM., 6 Hen. VI. 52. 

*Dom. ii. 3346. 9I.P.M., 8 Hen. VI. 40. 
5 1. P.M., 16 Edw. II. 36. 



YOXFORD. 



223 



Hopton charges the Brookes with fraud on their purchase. From the year 
1600, when Sir Robt. Brooke the elder died^ this manor has been described 
as a member of Yoxford, and, of course, passed with the main manor. 



An only entry in the Domesday Survey not included under any 
manor is the entry under Varley, and to make the Domesday entries under 
Blything complete this is given. It was a manor consisting of 50 acres, 
held in the Confessor's time by a freeman, having 4 bordars, i ploughteam, 
4 acres of meadow, and wood sufficient for 12 hogs, valued at js. The soc was 
in the Hundred, and the manor was held at the time of the Great Survey 
by Goodrich the Steward.' 




CocKFiELD Hall. 



'Dom. ii. 356. 



BOSMERE AND CLAYDON HUNDRED. 



Stmhnx,-. 



asfnU 
■unhrn 






Hehmru/lmy* 



H, 






<fflf 



' ' „ ilfl , V '3ramfi>ri 



SAXTON, 
1576. 




■••iiiiA/iJi'V' 



.5fcm?»i 






SPEED, 
1600. 



,-,Hl Hilrranjltan'' /' 

Tte .. B O 5 - -^ 

'Gnfttmy: \^J ^.:Bx 















f.^«T^ 






f& 









BOWEN, 
Mil. 



UlM.'H 






. - ■n-IB. ) - 







V 



BOSMERE AND CLAYDON HUNDRED. 




jHIS Hundred is bounded on the north by Hartismere and 
Thredling Hundreds, on the east by Thredling and Carlford 
Hundreds, on the south by the Borough of Ipswich and 
Samford Hundred, and on the west by Cosford and Stow 
Hundreds. It is in the Union to which it gives name, in the 
Deaneries of Bosmere and Claydon, and in the Arch- 
deaconry of Suffolk and Diocese of Norwich. It contains 
48,159 acres of land, and has generally a clayey soil well suited to the growth 
of corn. It is crossed by the river Gipping, which at Ipswich takes the 
name of Orwell, and assumes the character of a broad estuary. The 
Hundred derives its name from the parish of Claydon, and a mere or lake 
near Needham Market. It was called before the Conquest the Hundred of 
Gepes. The fee was in Saxon times in Gurth, Earl of Kent. It passed to 
the Crown, and is in the government of the Sheriff and his officers. In 1319 
King Edw. II. gave the custody of this Hundred, with its appurtenances, to 
Aylmer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, to hold during the Sovereign's 
pleasure, under the annual rent of £20.' 

In 1331 a grant was made for Ufe to Queen Philippa in dower of the 
Hundred, then estimated to be of the value of i^ao." In 1381 a grant was 
made for life to Queen Anne, as part of her dower, and the annual value of the 
Hundred was then stated to be £1^} Likewise we find a grant in dower 
to Joan, wife of Hen. IV., and it is included in the inquisition taken after 
her death in 1436.* An assessment of a subsidy in the time of Queen 
Elizabeth on the Hundred will be found amongst the Additional Charters 
in the Brit. Mus.^ and also in 1628 and 1629 amongst the MSS. in the same 
depository.* 

The Hundred was incorporated in 1765, and its Union formed in 1835. 

The Hundred contains 33 parishes and 79 manors. 



Parishes. 


Manors. 


Parishes. 


Manors. 




Akenham. 




r Crake's Hall al. Hel- 


Akenham . . 


Rous or Rice Hall. 




mingham Hall al. 




( Stoneham. 




Cressy's al. Joyce's 


Ashbocking. . 


1 Ashbocking. 

1 Harney s or Herveys. 


XT 1*1 


Bockings. 
Cadleys. 


Badley 


Badley. 


Helmmgham 


Bromberry al.lRz.yns- 


"R Ji rln c\ m 


Barham. 




brough al. Blom- 


±jaiL LLCLLll . ■ 


Shrubland. 




vile's al. Sulyards. 




Barking - cum - Need- 




Burehall or Bury 


Barking 


ham. 




Hall or Beryshall. 




^ Overhall. 




- WillowesandSidhall. 



'O., 13 Edw. II. I. 

^Pat. Rolls, 5 Edw. III. pt. ii. 26. 

3 Pat. Rolls, 5 Rich. II. pt. ii. C. 5. 

E I 



"I.P.M., 15 Hen. VI. 48. 
'Add. Ch. 1009- 1557. 
*Add. MSS. 21037-21039. 



226 


THE MANORS 


OF SUFFOLK. 


Parishes. 


Manors. 


Parishes. 


Manors. 




/ Battisford or Bishop's 


Hemingstone 


Hemingstone. 




Hall. 


Henley 


Henley, 


Battisford . . ■ 


Lyngges or Lings. 




' Mickfield. 


Commandry of St. 


Mickfield . . 


Hammonds. 




John's. 


■ FledeHall. 




I Milding Hall. 




, Wolney Hall. 


Baylham 


Baylham. 


Nettlestead. . 


Nettlestead. 


Blakenham 
(Great) . . 


Great Blakenham. 


Offton 


j Offton Castle. 
\ Offton Monks. 


Blakenham 

(Little) .. 


Little Blakenham. 




Ringshall. 
Charles Hall. 




Bramford or Carlton. 


Ringshall . . 


Rawhns. 




Lovetot. 




Rockell's or Willes- 




Norman's with 




ham and Rackells. 


Bramford . . 


Beverlies. 
^ Overtye. 


Somersham. . 


Somersham. 
Woodhouse. 




Fricketts. 




' Stonham Aspall al. 




VVeyland's. 




St. Antegan. 




Kenton. 




Stonham Aspal, 


Bricett (Gt.) 


Great Bricett 




called Broughton, 


Bricett 


Little Bricett or Tal- 




Manor de Brough- 


(Little) . . 


mach Hall. 




ton's Hall al. 


Claydon 


Claydon or Claydon 
Hall. 




Easke Stonham al. 
StonhamAntgayne 




- Denney's with Sack- 




al. Stonham Ed- 




vill-Rents. 




munds al. Brough- 




Vesseys al. Veises, 


Stonham 


tons. 




otherwise called 




Earl Stonham. 




the Priory or the 




Greeting apud Mon- 


Coddenham 


" Manor of Cod- 




tem al. Derebolt's. 




denham Vicarage. ' ' 




Stonham Parva or 




Bridge Place. 




Stonham Jerne- 




St.John of Jerusalem. 




gan's. 




Pipps. 




Flude Hall, or Flede 




. New Hall. 




Hall cum Wal- 




Greeting All Saints. 




thamHallor Wal- 


Greeting 


■ Greeting St. Mary. 




ham Hall. 




Greeting St. Olave. 


^^xrill'i'nrl 


Swilland. 
Newton Hall. 


Crowfield . . 


Crowfield. 
1 Booking Hall 


OWilldllU. , , 


Wester field. . 


Westerfield. 




Darmsden. 




■ ? Whitton with 


Darmsden . . 


] Darmsden Hall (? or 


Whitton 


Thurlston. 




( Tuston Hall.) 


with 


- Barnes al. Bernes. 


Flowton 


1 Flowton. 
1 Archers. 


Thurlston. . . 


Dale Hall al. Dales- 
. hall. 




r Gosbeck or Gosbeck- 


Willisham . . 


WilhshamHall. 


Gosbeck 


with-Newton. 
Childs. 
[ Ketsalfield. 








AKENHAM. 227 

AKENHAM. 
|N Saxon times there were 4 small manors in Akenham. 
Godwin the priest, a freeman, held in Edward the Con- 
fessor's time a carucate of land and 20 acres as one manor. 
In demesne there were 2 ploughteams, 4 acres of meadow, 
2 rouncies, 7 beasts, and 6 hogs. Also three fourth parts of 
a church with 12 acres. This by the time of the Domesday 
Survey was held by the daughter of Roger de Rheims of 
her father. The ploughteams in demesne had been increased by one, but 
the value was the same, 24s.' A second manor was held by Godwin, a freeman 
under Gurth, and consisted of 100 acres. Formerly there had been 3 
bordars, but in Norman times there was but 1,1 ploughteam, and two acres 
and a half of meadow, the whole valued at i6s. in Saxon times, but igs. ^d. 
at the time of the Domesday Survey. Amongst Roger de Rheims' estates here 
were 40 acres, i ploughteam, and i acre of meadow, valued at los., which 
had formerly been valued at 6s. %d., and held by Aluric, a freeman, under 
commendation to Sachs, the predecessor of the little piper. Also amongst 
the lands of Roger de Rheims here were 203 acres and a half, and 2 acres 
of meadow, held by 35 freemen. To this holding, formerly valued at 40s., 
belonged 7 ploughteams, but at the time of the Survey half a team only, 
though the value had risen to ^^5. 9s. It paid in a gelt 20^.'' 

A third manor belonged in the Confessor's days to Gurth, who held 
Sunwin, a freeman, by commendation with 26 acres. In those times there 
was one ploughteam, and also an acre and a half of meadow, valued at 6s. 
The fourth manor consisted of 30 acres only, and was held in Saxon times 
by Turbin the priest, a freeman. It had one ploughteam and one bordar, 
and was valued at 5s., which value in Norman times was raised to los. Tod. 
The King and the Earl had soc and commendation. 

Another holding in Akenham was i socman under Stigand, who had 
30 acres, formerly with i ploughteam, but at the time of the Survey half 
a team only. There was one bordar and one acre of meadow, all valued 
at 5s. This estate was at the time of the Survey in the keeping of William 
de Noers for the King.^ Roger de Poictou had three small holdings here — 
I, Leuold, a freeman, with 20 acres, in the King's soc and commendation, 
valued at 4s. ; 2, a freeman, Aluold, with 6 acres, in the Abbot's soc and 
commendation, valued at X2d. ; 3, 3 freemen, with 16 acres, half a plough- 
team, and half a church with 5 acres, valued at 32^., of which the soc was 
in the King and the Earl.* The only other holdings were two of Walter 
the Deacon, the first 2 freemen, Swain and Lewin, with 50 acres, valued at 
5s., held by Thurstin of Walter and Bernard, as of Tedric's fee, and 4 
freemen with 32 acres of land and i ploughteam, valued at 5s. This Roger 
held of Walter, and the King and the Earl had the soc.^ 

All the above manors were by the time of the Domesday Survey vested 
in Roger de Rheims as tenant in chief, who had come in at the Conquest, 
and had had the honour of the Barony of Raines or Reynes, consisting of 
ten knights' fees in Essex, conferred upon him. From him descended the 
family of Reams in Overstrand, who according to Blomefield, in Tasburgh 
were anciently called De Raims.^ Morant says the name appears to be 
taken from Rayne or Little Rajme in Essex.'' 

'Dom. ii. 422&. 'Dom. ii. 4266, 4276. 

*Dom. ii. 422b. ^Blom., v. 216, viii. 143. 

^Dom. ii. 289. 'Morant's Essex, ii. 403. 

■*Dom. ii. 352fc. ; 



228 



THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 



Akenham Manor. 

Davy treats this as one with the Manor of Rous Hall or Rice Hall, and 
mixes up the lords together. It is extremely difficult to trace the two as 
distinct, and it is hoped it will be understood that the writer merely attempts 
the separation with much diffidence, and offers what he conceives to be the 
most probable devolution of each, after much consideration of the difficulties. 
It is conceived that the four manors of Akenham in process of time came 
into two, and that at an early period this manor was held by the Brewse 
family, but Rice Hall was held by the family of Rous. This continued 
imtil the marriage in the reign of Hen. III., when Richard de Brewse, the 
son of WiUiam, married AUce, daughter of WiUiam le Rus, who then held 
Rice Hall, when William de Brewse exchanged the Manor of Akenham with his 
son Richard and Alice le Rus for the Manor of Bromly, in Surrey. Thus 
the two manors of Akenham came into one hand, and so continued probably 
until the time of William Brewse, who succeeded his father. Sir Thomas 
Brewse, on his death in 1482, when the Manor of Rice Hall apparently passed 
to the Barnard family, which for some generations was seated there. 

Page says : " In the 56 year of King Henry III. William de Brewse 
granted by fine to Richard and Alice the Manor of Akenham and advowson, 
with those of Claydon and Hemingston ; he granting to William and Mary 
his wife the Manor of Bromley in Surrey, &c." 

Sir Richard de Brewse seems to have died seised of Akenham Manor 
in 1296, and Alice four years later,' leaving Giles, son and heir, who died 
in 1310.^ 

The Davy MSS. refer to John and Richard his sons, and make John 
Bakun lord of this manor in 1316. They also make Mary, wife of William 
de Brewse, who died in 1325 lady, and then Sir Richard de Brewes, son of 
Sir Giles, and state that Sir Richard died in 1323. 

The sons of Sir Giles seem to have been infants at their father's death, 
and no doubt John Bakun and Mary de Brewes were merely guardians. 
On Sir Richard's death he was succeeded by his brother Robert, who died 
a minor, and without issue in 1325,' when the manor passed in dower to 
Robert's widow Katherine, and there is an order on the Close Rolls to the 
Escheator to deliver to her the manor, which had been taken into the 
King's hands on the death of Robert's father, Giles de Brewse, the same 
having been assigned to Katherine in dower.* 

Subject to this life interest in the widow Katherine, the manor passed 
to Robert's brother. Sir John Brewse. He became lord on Katherine's 
death in 1344, from which time the manor passed in the same course as 
the Manor of Hasketon Hall, in Carlford Hundred, to the death of William 
■Brewse, 29th Oct. 1489. 

This manor is specifically mentioned in the inquisition p.m. of Sir 
Thomas Brewse in 1482,^ and in 1456 it is included in a fine levied by the said 
Thomas Brewse and EUzabeth his wife against Thomas Gardiner, chaplain.^ 

William Brewse left two daughters, Thomasine, wife of Thomas Han- 
sard, and Amy, wife of Sir Roger Townsend. 

Sir Roger Townsend made a feoffment dated 28th July, 29 Hen. VIII. 
[1537] to Sir John Shelton, Knt., and others in fee to the use of himself 



'I.P.M., 29 Edw. I. 52. 
-Extent, I.P.M., 4 Edw. II. 40. 
3I.P.M., 19 Edw. II. 95, Extent. 
••Close Rolls, 19 Edw. II. 30. 



^I.P.M., 22 Edw. IV. 50. 

^Feet of Fines, 34 Hen. VI. 14. See lease 

to Elizabeth, 22 Edw. IV. Stowe 

Ch. 233. 



AKENHAM. 229 

the said Sir Roger Townsend and his wife, for their lives, and the life of the 
survivor, and after their decease to the use of John Townsend, their sen and 
heir apparent, for life, and after his decease to the use of Richard Townsend, 
son and heir of the said John and Catherine, the wife of the same Richard, 
and the heirs of the said Richard, and for default of such issue to divers 
other uses. 

Sir Roger and Amy his wife by deed 26th Oct. 4 Edw. VL [1550], 
leased the site of the manor and divers parcels to the said Richard Townsend, 
and he by his will appointed Thomas Townsend his executor. 

Richard had issue Roger, and all died in the Ufetime of Amy and her 
husband. Sir Roger Townsend.' Am}^ died 25th July, 1551.^ 

When Sir Roger Townsend died, his great-grandson, Roger Townsend, 
son of Richard, son of John, became (subject to the great-grandmother's 
interest) lord, and was under age, the manor being then held of the King 
by knight's service. 

Roger Townsend sold the manor in 1586 to John Aylmer, Bishop 
of London.^ The Bishop was tutor to Lady Jane Grey, who spoke of him 
in most affectionate and friendly terms. He was very rigid against both 
papists and puritans, and a warm-tempered and irritable man. He was 
rather a man of business than a theologian, and died very rich. This 
estate was thought to have been worth ;^i,2oo a year. He married Judith 
Buers, of the ancient family of that name of Acton, and had seven sons 
and some daughters. Samuel, the eldest, was bred to the law, and was 
sometime styled of Claydon Hall, in this Hundred. Theophilus, the second 
son, D.D., was Archdeacon of London and chaplain to King James. The 
3rd son, John, for eminent services was knighted and styled Sir John Aylmer, 
of Rigby, in the county of Lincoln, Knt. The Bishop died 5th July, 1594, 
at Fulham, and by the inquisition p.m. taken at Bury St. Edmunds 13th 
Dec. 41 Eliz., Samuel Aylmer, then aged 28 and upwards, was found to be 
his son and heir. 

John Aylmer was found to have died seised of the manor of " Akenham 
als Akingham," formerly held of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, and then in the 
hands of the Queen for half a knight's fee and los. rent for castleward. 
He was also found to have died seised of the Manor of Brampton, held of 
Thomas Playters as of the Manor of Uggeshall, for a quarter of a knight's 
fee, and the Manor of Playford, held of the Queen as of the Duchy of Lancaster, 
also at a quarter of a knight's fee, and in 1598 we meet with a fine levied 
by Robert Bures and others against Samuel Aylmer,* " the eldest son and 
heir of the Bishop." 

Samuel Aylmer, who was High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1626, and was also 
chosen Sheriff of London, hved in Akenham Hall, and died 12th June, 1635, 
and the entry in the Register of Akenham is as follows : " Samuell Aylmer 
Esqre Lo. and patron of Akenham and Claydon, died xij.th day ot January 
in Akenham Hall, and was buried in Claydon chancell the xij day at night, 
1635." He left the manor to his 2nd son, Edward Aylmer, clerk, D.D., 
who compounded for delinquency in 1646,^ and sold to Thomas Arras, M.D. 
and M.P. for St. Albans in 1661. 

Akenham Manor extended over 2.000 acres, with the copyhold estates 
containing 200 acres, and paying a fine at the will of the lord on death or aliena- 
tion, was offered for sale in 1815. The copyhold rents amounted to £7. 8s. 

' Plowden's Rep. iii. Ii6. ■'Fine, Mich. 40-41 Eliz. 

='I.P.M.,7Edw.VI.67. sg.p., Cal. of Comp. 1309. 

3 Fine, Easter, 28 Eliz. 



230 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

and free rents to £i. 165.5^. per annum. There were also offered for sale 
AkenhamHall Farm and New Farm, containing 314 acres and 186 acres/ 

Akenham Hall was purchased in 1817 by John Orford, of Brook's 
Hall, Ipswich, from Mr. Weeble. John Orford was succeeded by his son 
Robert Baker Orford, who resided at Akenham Hall. He married Elizabeth, 
only daughter of William Cockerell, of Claydon. The property subsequently 
passed to James Clarke. 

Arms of Aylmer : Argent, a cross Sable, between 4 Cornish choughs 
ppr. 

Manor of Rous or Rice Hall. 

This was the lordship of Arnold Ruf us, Rus or Rous in the time of Hen. II., 
being held by him with the Manors of Hasketon and Clopton of the Bigods, 
Earl of Norfolk, as of the Honor of Lancaster, by the service of two and a 
half knight's fees and 20s. yearly to guard of Lancaster. From Arnold 
Rufus the manor passed to his son Hugh le Rus in the time of King John. 

He was admitted a freeman of Ipswich, and paid a fine for freedom 
from toll for himself and his villeins in Akenham, Hemmingston, Hasketon, 
and elsewhere. From this family the hall had its name, now corrupted 
into Rice Hall. William le Rus died seised about 1260,^ leaving an only 
daughter, AUce, then aged 14 or 15, his heir, who subsequently married 
Richard de Brewse. 

From this time to the death of Sir Thomas Brewse, who died in 1482, 
the manor passed in the same course as the Manor of Akenham. Probably 
in the lifetime of Sir Thomas, Rice Hall Manor passed into the possession 
of the Barnard family, who apparently held from the time of Edw. IV. to 
the reign of Elizabeth. William Barnard^ married EHzabeth Weller, of 
Ramsholt, and had three sons and two daughters. On his death the manor 
passed to his son and heir Philip Barnard, who married ist Anne Robsert, 
daughter of Sir William Carew, of Bury St. Edmunds, Knt., and 2ndly 
Alice, daughter of Richard Bishop, of Yarmouth. 

On Philip's death the manor passed to his son and heir, Francis Barnard. 
The Manor of Rice Hall or Ryse or Rous Hall is included in a fine levied 
in 1555 by Henry Wysey against the said Francis " Barnarde."^ He married 
Jane, daughter of John Bassett, of Chishall, co. Essex, and widow of Robert 
Darcy, but dying without issue the manor passed to his two sisters and 
coheirs, Margaret and Mary. 

Margaret married ist Robert Whetstone, of London, and 2ndly Robert 
Browne of Northampton. Mary married William Bramford, of Felixstowe, 
Serjeant at Arms. The manor was sold, and was acquired by Edmund 
Withypole, who died seised i6th May, 1582,^ and was succeeded by his 
grandson Paul, who died 3rd April, 1585, without issue. ^ 

Page says the manor continued in the Whitypole family for three 
descents, when vSir William Whitypole, Knt., sold it to John Hawes, 
town clerk of Ipswich. There were two of this name, town clerks of 
Ipswich. The first held the office from 1563 to 1591, and was the son of 
John Hawes, of Weston. He married Ann Page. WiUiam Hawes was 

^ Ipswich Journal, Aug. $th, 1815. ^Fine, Trin. 3 Mary i. 

^I.P.M., 44 Hen. III. 15, or file 23 (17). n.VM., at Ipswich, 5th June, 24 Eliz. 

3 Pedigree of Barnard, with Arms. Add This manor then said to have 

5524, 5578 ; Harl. 155, 1103, 1177, been of the value of £20. 

1449, 1560 ; Rawl. B. 422. ^The value was then again stated to be 

£20. 



AKENHAM. 231 

elected town clerk 1608, and he was probably a relation of the above John. 
The 2nd John Hawes, town clerk, held office from 1625 to 1642, and again 
in 1650. 

John Hawes, the town clerk, is said by Page to have died in 1657, 
and to have been succeeded by his son. On the other hand, the Davy 
MSS. state that John Hawes (apparently the town clerk) held in 1657, 
and sold to Robert Maidstone of Framlingham, who resold to WiUiam 
Hawes, the son of John, and that he, WiUiam, died in 1724,' and was 
succeeded by his son and heir Henry. There is evidently confusion in both 
accounts, for the second John Hawes was town clerk of Ipswich, as we have 
said, from 1625 to 1642, and again in 1650. He is stated to have been 
buried at Framlingham 8th Oct. 1677.'' 

But this date seems doubtful, for the entry in the town books on his 
resignation is 1642, 35 years earlier than this date of his burial is. " John 
Hawys, Town Clerk, now grown into years, and his sight decayed, at his 
request is discharged of town clerk." Page says the town clerk died in 
1657, and this seems far more probable ; possibly a son named John Hawes 
was buried in 1677. 

There were probably several John Hawys in succession — John Hawys, 
the owner of the manor in the time of Charles H., certainly sold to Robert 
Maidstone (son of Robert Maidstone, of Bexsted, in Essex), who had amassed 
a fortune during the civil wars, and as it is said, " ambitious of having a 
handsome seat of his own," soon after the restoration of Charles H. Maid- 
stone gave the sum of £1,000 and an estate of his own in Framlingham. 

John Hawys having sold Rice Hall, went to reside on the estate in 
Framlingham which he had taken in exchange from Robert Maidstone. 
He married ist Mary, daughter of William Lodge, of Nettlestead, and 2ndly 
Sarah, one of the sisters of Sir John Coell, of Debden, Knt. He had issue 
John and Thomas, who both died unmarried, William, who married Elizabeth, 
daughter of Henry Goodhew, of London, merchant ; Walter, a bachelor ; 
Susan, married to Thomas Berry, of London ; and Sarah to Thomas Smith 
of Marlesford. 

Their father died at Framlingham, and was buried in the chancel 
there 8th Oct. 1677, but Sarah his wife survived him, and lived a widow 
several years in Framlingham, until her son William Hawys repurchased 
Rice Hall and returned to the seat of his ancestors, when she accompanied 
him and died there in 1689, and was buried in the south aisle of Akenham 
Church in the family vault. 

William Hawys died in 1724, when the manor passed to his son and 
heir, Henry Hawys. 

In 1764 the manor belonged to William Plummer, and was later 
purchased by Thomas Woodward, of Sproughton, who on his death was 
succeeded by his son and heir, Thomas Woodward. 

Arms of Barnard : Arg. a Bear saliant Sable, muzzled Or. Of Hawes : 
Az. a fesse wavy, between 3 lions pass., Or armed and langued Gules. 

Stoneham Manor. 
A manor of this name in Akenham is mentioned in the inquisition p.m. 
of Lady Elizabeth Crewe in 1354.^ 



' He was buried at Akenham, i2th October. ^ Duchy of Lancaster. I. P.M., 28 Edw. III. 
' Bacon's Annals of Ipswich 143. 




232 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

ASH BOC KING. 

^N Saxon times there were 4 small manors in Ashbocking, 
and in the time of the Confessor one was held by Uluric, 
a freeman, with 60 acres. There were 2 villeins and i soc- 
man with 7 acres, 2 bordars, and i ploughteam in demesne, 
half a team belonging to the men, and 2 acres of meadow. 
The value was then 20s., but by the time of the Great 
Survey it had risen to 30s. The soc was in the King and 
the Earl. Another manor was in King Edward's time held by Iric, a free- 
man, with 60 acres and 2 bordars. There was a ploughteam, and also an 
acre of meadow, and the value was 30s. 

Edric, another freeman in King Edward's time, also held 40 acres 
as a manor, in which were a ploughteam and an acre of meadow, valued at 
20S. This manor was increased in King William's time by one Phin 
adding to it 8 freemen with 35 acres, and a socman with 12 acres, who it 
was said could not take themselves out of the lordship of Saint Etheldreda, 
and among them they had 3 ploughteams, which by the time of the Survey 
had come down to 2. In Saxon times the value was 15s., but in Norman 
days 20. The whole of this manor was held by Osbern de Wancey, but 
Richard claimed it as belonging to Phin's fee. The Survey adds : "Two of 
these freemen, Roger de Rheims claims as of his fee, and he was seised 
thereof. The whole is 6 quarantenes in length and 2 broad, and pays 
6d. in a gelt. Of all this Phin had nothing in King Edward's time." 

All the three manors were held by Richard, son of Earl Gislebert, as 
tenant in chief, and in all the King and the Earl had the soc' The fourth 
manor was held by Almar, a freeman, with 93 acres of land and 20 acres of 
pasture. Formerly there had been 3 bordars, but at the time of Domesday 
vSurvey there were 6. There were i ploughteam, 3 acres of meadow, and 
half a church, with 16 acres. The value had been 30s. but it had come 
down to 20s. 6d. There was also a church with 3 acres, valued at 6d. 
" Over all these," says the Survey, " the fair Edith had soc and com- 
mendation in King Edward's time ; and they render 4 pounds to the farm 
of Norton and they were added in the time of Earl Ralph." 

This manor was at the time of the Survey described as lands of Earl 
Ralph, which Godric the Steward kept in hand for the King.^ The only 
other holdings enumerated in the Domesday Survey were those of the Abbot 
of Ely and Humphrey the Chamberlain. The former had here a free- 
woman named Listeva under commendation with an acre valued at 2d., 
and a freeman by commendation holding only half an acre valued at id. 
The King and the Earl had the soc of the holding of the abbot. ^ Humphrey 
the Chamberlain merely held a freeman named Alwin with 4 acres, valued 
formerly at i6d., but at the time of the Survey at only 8d.'^ 

Ashbocking Manor, Ash Hall or Booking Hall Manor. 

The main lordship is said to have been granted by the Conqueror to 
Roger Bigot, Earl of Norfolk, but this seems to be doubtful. Davy states 
that Ralph Guader, Earl of Norfolk, was lord in the time of WiUiam I., and 
that on his forfeiting the Conqueror gave all his lands to William de 
Albini Pincerna, his butler. It was later held of the Honor of Clare. 
In 1281 Philip Hervey was lord, and on his death his son Edmund succeeded. 

'Dom. ii. 394. ^Dom. ii. 383. 

'^Dom. ii. 285. •• Dom. ii. 4336. 



ASHBOCKING. 



233 



It then passed to the Weyland family, for as early as 1290 we find Margery 
de Weyland and Richard her son suing for £10 rent in Ash-bocking and else- 
where/ and the manor is included m the inquistion p.m. of John de Wey- 
land in 1312.'' 

It then probably passed to his brother, or possibly son, Richard, and 
on Richard's death to Bartholomew, Lord Burghersh, who had married 
Richard's only daughter Cecily. 

It seems in 1342 to have been acquired by Sir Ralph de Bockyng by 
virtue of a fine levied this year against Thomas de Felsham and John 
Horold.^ Sir Ralph de Bocking had other land at the time in the parish, 
and in respect of which he had had a grant of free warren as early as 1328. 
On his death the manor passed to his son and heir William de Bocking, 
who died seised of it in 1369.* 

Wilham was succeeded by his son John de Bocking, and he by his son 
and heir Phihp de Bocking, and he in 1375 by his son and heir Ralph de 
Bocking, who was living in 1389. Edmund de Bocking had the manor in 







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ASHBOCKING Old Hall. 



the early part of the i6th century. He married ist Jane, daughter of John 
Talmache, of Helmingham, and 2ndly Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John 
Arundel, and on his death 8th Oct. 1551, the manor passed to his son and 
heir Richard Bocking. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Alleyn<.>, of 
Icklingham, Baron of the Exchequer, and died in 1557, when the manor 
passed to his son and heir Edmund Bocking, against whom a fine was levied 
of the manor in 1583 by Sir John Heigham and others.^ Edmund Bocking 
married twice, ist Frances, daughter and coheir of Sir Thomas Tey, Knt., 
of Brightwell, and widow of William Bonham ; and 2ndly Mary, one of the 
daughters and coheirs of Thomas Payne, of Great Dunham, in Norfolk. He 
died loth August, 1585, aged 57, and was buried in Ashbocking Church, 



' Abbr. of Pleas, 18 Edw. I. Trin. 62. 

^^LP-M., 6 Edw. II. 34- 

3 Feet of Fines, 16 Edw. III. 31. 

FI 



''I.P.M., Extent as of Honor of Clare, 43 

Edw. III. pt. i. II. 
' Fine, Mich. 25-26 Eliz. 



234 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

where there is a brass to his memory, mounted on a wooden frame and 
fixed in an elevated position on the north wall of the nave, having been 
probably moved from the floor. There are brass figures of a man and his 
two wives and two daughters, being five separate plates. The man — 
Edmund Booking — is in armour, bareheaded, his wives in Elizabethan 
dress, showing a brocaded petticoat in front. In the centre over his head 
is placed his coat of arms. 

The following is the inscription : — 

" Here lyeth the body of Edmund Bockinge, esquier, who was of ye 
age of LVII.yeres when he dyed and dyd depart this lyef the Xthdayof 
August Ao. Dni. 1585. Who had two wyves and by eche of them a daughter, 
viz. : his fyrst wyves name was Ff ranees, who was ye Daughter and heyre of Sir 
Thomas Tey, knight & by her had issue Ff ranees, maryed to John Harvy 
of Ickworth, esquier ; his seconde wyve's name was Mary, ys one of the 
Daughters & heyres of Thomas Payne, late of Great Dunham in the County 
of Norff., esquier, deceassed, and by her had issue Katheryn [of the] 
age of VHI yeres, as by the severall pictures ingraven upon this stone with 
the severall armes of both his sayd wyves may appere." 

" Expecto salutem tuam domine, 
beatus homo qui in te confidit. 
Quanta mihi in coelis domine 
At nihil proeter te placeat in terra." 

Of Edmund Booking's two daughters, Frances married John Hervey, 
of Ickworth and Catherine married, ist Thomas Argall, of Scott's Hall, 
CO. Kent, and afterwards William Bonham, of London. Page says that 
Thomas Argall, 43 EHz., paid his Ingress fine to Clare Honor for a moiety, 
and this year we meet with a fine of the manor levied by Reginald Kempe 
and others against him and others,' and 20 Jac. I., William Bonham did the 
same. 

" It appears," says Page, " to have continued in his descendants until 
the 28th of Charles II., when Thomas Bonham paid a like fine for his 
Ingress " (one messuage, one garden and an orchard, 230 acres arable 
and pasture, 22 acres meadow, which descended to him as heir to Thomas 
Bonham, his father). 

Thomas Bonham, the father, son of William Bonham, the 2nd husband 
of Catherine Booking, had died in 1655. Page further states that in 1763 
the manor was in the possession of James Wilkinson. He sold it in 1764 
to Captain Samuel Cockeril, of Harwich, from whom it passed to James 
Edward Urquhart, of Halstead, Essex, who had married Elizabeth, one 
of the daughters of the said Samuel Cockeril, and Kennet Cockeril Mackenzie 
and Henry Scott Boston, two of the grandsons of the said Samuel Cockeril. 

This is practically the same statement we find in the Davy MSS. 
In 1810 the manor was sold as the joint estate of the above parties 
to John Stanford, who resold it in 1821 to Wilbraham, Earl of 
Dysart, from which time it has descended in the same course as the 
Manor of Helmingham Hall, in this Hundred. It is possible that 
the statements of Page and Davy must be understood as referring to 
the Bonham moiety, for we find the manor to have been the subject of a fine 
levied in 1576 by Richard Payne and others against Edmund Booking,'' 
and to have been included in the marriage settlement of Frances Booking 
and John Hervey in 1583, and on the marriage of their eldest son, Sir William 

' Fine, Trin. 43 Eliz. 'Fine, Mich. 18-19 Eliz. 



ASHBOCKING. 235 

Hervey, with Susan Jermyn it was settled on them. Notwithstanding this, 
the manor, or a moiety, was by deed in 1612 conveyed to Robert Hervey 
the younger son, and was the occasion of a dispute between the two brothers, 
settled ultimately by arbitration, and Robert sold his interest to Sir Lionel 
ToUemache, an ancestor of Lord Dysart.' 

Davy says (writing in May, 1821) : " Mr. Stamford who lives at Ash 
Hall, showed me a map of the estate late of the Bockings, in Ashbocking 
and adjoining parishes, dated 1627. It consisted of 520 acres, one moiety 
of which was then in the possession of Lord Bristol by inheritance from the 
Bockings. The other moiety is in the family of Bonham by sale. The 
House or Hall, which stands at a small distance north-east from the church, is 
placed on a slight rise from a meadow through which passes a small stream. 
The present building is of no antiquity ; but is a large farm-house, and 
stands within a moat, three sides of which still remain, that on the west side 
having been filled up within a few years by the present occupier, Mr. Stam- 
ford, to whom the estate then belonged, but who has since sold it to the 
Dysart family." 

The present farm does not consist of more than 260 acres. 

Arms of Booking : Arg, a fesse wavy betw. 6 cross crosslets fitchee, Gu. 

Harney's or Harvey's Manor. 

There is a manor in Ashbocking called " Hervey's Harneys al. Aishe 
al. Ketts de Campo, or in Campis or St. Christopher's in the Fields or 
Greffield Hall." 

In 1296 John Hameis had free warren, according to Davy, and he was 
followed by PhiUp Harneys in I316 as lord of this manor, which the laborious 
Suffolk collector and antiquarian called " Harneis." It is suggested that 
the name has been misread, the " n " of Davy being a " u " standing for 

" V." 

In the beginning of the reign of Edw. IV. land was held here of the 
Manor of Framhngham by John Thorpe, which passed to Sir Thomas Moor, 
and in the 2 Eliz. went to Sir Edward Woodhouse. It does not appear that 
this land formed part of the manor, for the Woodhouse family seem to have 
held this manor before 1464, in which year John Thorp paid for the land he 
held a relief. 

The manor certainly belonged to the Wodehouse family.' Page, in his 
History of Suffolk (page 563) says: "Henry Wodehouse, Esq., Uved in this 
parish at the time of his father's death, 1430. He was eldest son of John 
Wodehouse, Esq., the great warrior, who won such fame at Agincourt in 
1415." He died in 1450 without issue, and John Wodehouse, his brother, 
succeeded, and married Constance, eldest daughter and coheir of Thomas 
Giddinge,of Icklingham, widow first of Harry Foley, and after of John 
AUeyne, one of the Barons of the Exchequer. 

We meet with two fines, no doubt of this manor, under the head 
" Asshe juxta Helmingham." The one was levied in 1435 by John Wode- 
house against Wilham Walworth and Margaret his wife,^ and the other 
levied in 1453 by Thomas Stotevile, Thomas Heigham, and Thomas Westhorp, 

' The manor, or reputed manor, of Booking under a private Act of Parliament 

Hall, in Ash, otherwise Ashbocking, in 1807. 

with John and Robert William's ' See Manor of Crowfield, in this Hundred, 

farms and Mr. Thomas Todd's farm, ^Feet of Fines, 13 Hen. VI. 18. 
about 500 acres in all, were sold 



236 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

clerk, against John Wodehouse.' John Wodehouse died in 1460, when the 
manor passed to his son and heir, Sir Edward Wodehouse, on whose death 
it vested in his son and heir. Sir Thomas Wodehouse, on whose death in 1487 
it vested in his son and heir, Roger Wodehouse. 

A writer in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute' quotes from 
the Fitch MSS. in the Ipswich Museum the following entry : " Deed 
of sale by Roger Wodehouse of his manor called ' Kitty's of the 
Fields,' with the appurtenances in Ashbocking, his Lands and Tenements, 
&c., called ' Harnesse in Ashe ' Hemynston and Lands in Alnesbourne 
Close abutting upon the lands of the Prior of Alnesbourne &c., to John 
Reynor, 1528, 20 Hen. VIII." 

That the manor at this date belonged to Roger Wodehouse is perfectly 
clear, but whether he sold to John Rejmor seems doubtful, for in 1535 
the manor was passed fiom Roger Wodehouse directly by fine to Lionel 
" Talmache," of Bentley,^ who died in 1552, when it passed to his son and 
heir, Lionel of Helmingham, who died in 1571, from which time the manor 
has gone in the same course as the Manor of Helmingham Hall, m this 
Hundred. 

John Style farmed this manor of Lionel Talmache at the beginning of 
the reign of Queen EUzabeth, and began the rise of his family, bringing 
it to ^300 or ;£400 per annum. It was William Style, son of William, 
fourth son of this John who built the house in Hemingstone. 

Davy says: "Mr. William Edwards occupies at present the site of the 
Manor of Greffield Hall al. Hawes, which also belongs to the Dysart family. 
This farm consists of more than 500 acres. This is the same manor with 
Ketts de Campo, Harneis, &c., one or two tenants only belong to it at 
present. It is singular that upon this farm, and nearly in a line with that 
at the Hall, there should be two moated spaces, which anciently were 
formerly the sites of manors or houses of note, that nearest to the present 
farm house appears of " — (the shape he gives a sketch of). "The area is 
nearly half an acre. The other moat appears to be nearly a square, of about 
the same size, and is now planted. The distance between these two is but 
one field, and that by the Church where the Hall now stands, and that nearest 
to Mr. Edward's house are not more than half a mile asunder." 

Court Rolls of Ashbocking Manor will be found in the British Museum, 
1340-1,* 1399-1400,' 1409.^ And a plan of the estate of Ashbocking Hall 
i8th century.' 

There seems to have been another manor called the Manor of Ashbocking 
Green, the manor house of which stands on the northern road from Helming- 
ham to Ipswich, on the west side of the ancient " Green." Of this manor 
house a writer in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute^ says : " Part of 
the old timber-framed dwelling, with its low rooms and narrow passages, is 
still standing to the rear of the modern frontage. A sister of the late Mr. 
W. Brown, of Gippeswyck Hall, Ipswich, had a drawing of the house, showing 
its appearance in 1810, when partially rebuilt, and the present front of 
the house replaced that represented in the sketch. This property was last 
century held in succession by the Welham, Boyd, and Skeet families, and 

'Feet of Fines, 31 Hen. VI. 3. ^Add. Ch. 10046. 

*Vol. XL, p. 233- *Add. Ch. 10051. 

^Fine, Mich. 27 Hen. VHI. ^Add. MSS. 21057. 

*Add. Ch. 9979. 8 Vol, XL, p. 233. 



ASHBOCKING. 237 

last, as now [1902] it was purchased by Sir Alfred Garrod, M.D., of London, 
the distinguished physician. It is traditionally alleged to have been the 
residence of John Felton, by whom on Aug. 23rd, 1628, George Villiers, 
ist Duke of Buckingham, the unpopular royal favourite, was assassinated 
at Portsmoiith. Felton was a Suffolk man, and had an estate in Ash 
Bocking. He was probably distantly connected with the Playford family.'* 




238 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

BADLEY MANOR. 

ADLEY Manor was held in the time of Edward the Con- 
fessor by Aschil as 2 carucates and 20 acres of land. There 
were 4 villeins, 4 bordars, 5 serfs, 2 ploughteams in demesne, 
2 ploughteams belonging to the men, 8 acres of meadow, 
half a mill, 2 rouncies, 26 beasts, 32 hogs, and 60 sheep. 
Also a church with 14 acres. The value was then 60s., but 
by the time of the Norman Survey it had risen to £4, though 
the only alterations apparently in the details of that which appertained 
to the manor was that there were 100 sheep instead of 60. Of this land 
the Abbot of Bury claimed half a carucate, and the King and the Earl had 
the soc. In the Conqueror's time there were added to this manor 26 free- 
men, 'v^'ith a carucate and 45 acres of land, all of which the Domesday 
tenant, Richard, son of Earl Gislebert, held as belonging to this manor 
which Phin held. No doubt this to a great extent would account for the 
rise in value ; and Phin himself held these last by arrangement with the 
Sheriff. Formerly 5 ploughteams, then 2. Formerly valued at 40s., 
then at 47s. And the King and the Earl had sac and soc. The whole of 
this domain was 10 quarantenes long and 5 broad, and paid lod. in a gelt.' 
There were two other small holdings here, one amongst the lands of 
Earl Ralph, which Godric the Steward kept in hand for the King, which 
consisted of a freeman with 30 acres, i ploughteam, and 2^ acres of meadow, 
valued at 75. 8i., and a socman with 20 acres, valued at 4s." ; and the other 
amongst the possessions of the Abbot of Ely consisting of 30 acres in demesne 
in the Confessor's time, included in the valuation of Barking.^ 

Richard, the Domesday tenant of the manor, was succeeded by Gilbert 
de Clare, his son and heir, and he was followed by Ralfe de Badele, and in 
the time of Hen. IH. Geoffrey de Badele was lord, holding of the Honor of 
Clare.* On the Close Rolls is an order to the Escheater not to intermeddle 
with 4I knights' fees in Badley and Brokes unless Geoffrey held of the King 
in chief, as the King learns from the Exchequer Rolls that he held them of 
Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, of the Honor of Clare, ^ and a further 
order to permit Gilbert to hold the above until the King's arrival, as Richard 
de Clare, father of Gilbert, and Gilbert were in seisin of the homage of 
Geoffrey de Badele for the said fees until Geoffrey's death.^ 

Geoffrey was succeeded by his son, Robert de Badely. There are two 
fines relating to the manor t. of Edw. H. and IH. " Robert de Bardele 
and Meliora his wife v. Richard de Hasting and John Bateman,"' and 
" Philip Deneys v. John Deneys and Thomas Colette and Kathenne his 
wife."^ The Badele family continued to hold until 1424, when we find 
William de Badele lord, but the manor then seems to have passed to Robert 
Mortimer, who sold to Edmund Alcock, who died in 1491,° leaving a daughter 
and heir Margery, who married Simon Poley, son and heir of Richard Poley 
by Margaret his wife, eldest daughter of Symon Blyant, of Thorndon. 

This Richard Poley was son of Thomas Poley, of Codreth co. Hertford, 
by Maude his ist wife, daughter and heir of John Gestringham. Thomas, 
by his 2nd wife, Anne, daughter and heir of Thomas Badwell, of Boxstead, 
being ancestor of the Poleys of Boxstead. 



z 



Dom. ii. 393. 'Close Rolls, i Edw. i. 9. 

Dom. ii. 285. * Close Rolls, 2 Edw. I. 8. 

^Dom. ii. 383. ^Feet of Fines, 20 Edw. II. 6. 

♦He held a knight's fee. Testa de Nevill, ^Feet of Fines, 39 Edw. III. 24. 
2Q0. 'Will, loth Feb. 1491. 



BAD LEY. 239 

The manor was not wholly vested in the Foley family by this marriage, 
but subsequently acquired, for when the last Alcock, Edmund, died seised, 
he left another daughter, EHzabeth, married to Roger Roodwoode and Ed- 
mund Foley, then aged only 5, the son of Henry Foley, son of Margery, 
wife of Simon Foley, his other daughter, next heirs.' 

The land referred to in the inquisition from which these last par- 
ticulars are taken was not extensive, merely 40 acres of land and 40 of 
pasture, worth 5 marks, held of Cicely, Duchess of York, as of the Honor of 
Clare by fealty and 4^. Henry Foley, the father of Edmund, had himself 
died seised of land in Badley quite apart from this, or the manor, namely, 
of a "Close called Kyesfeld " parcel of Badley Manor, worth 53s. 4^., held in 
the same mode as the last land by knight service.^ The manor was at this 
time stated to be worth 20 marks, and was held by the service of half a 
knight's fee.^ Simon Foley died 15th Oct. 1485, and was buried at Badley, 
being succeeded by his son and heir, Henry Foley, who married Constance, 
daughter and heir of William Geddinge, of Icklmgham, and died in 1487,* 
leaving a son Edmund Foley. 

Edmund Foley married Mirabell, daughter of John Garneis, of Kent, 
and his will is dated 30th July, 1548, and in it he bequeaths, " unto myrable 
Foley my wife that my parte of the manner of Badley lying in the Southe 
fyld of the Kinges highe wayes, leading from Stowe-market into Nedeham, 
with all my landes and tenements belonging vnto my parte of the foresaid 
man' of Badley Ij^ng and being in the p'lshes of Badley, Combas, and Bats- 
worth in the saide Countie of Suff. for terme of her lyffe." Edmund Foley 
died 31st Dec. 1548, and his will was proved London, 23rd May, 1549. 
The manor passed to the widow according to the will, and on her death 
25th Feb. 1558, passed to the son and heir, John Foley, of Badley, who 
married Anne, eldest daughter of Thomas, ist Lord Wentworth, of Nettle- 
stead.^ 

In 1565 we meet with a fine levied of a third part of the manor by Simon 
Egerton against Jerommus Bowes and his wife,*^ and two years later levied 
of a quarter part by John Foley against Edmund Wyseman and others.' 
John Foley died 26th Oct. 1589, and was buried at Badley, when the manor 
passed to his son and heir, Edmund Foley. He married ist Katherine, 
eldest daughter of Francis Seckford, of Seckford Hall, who died i8th June, 
1601, without issue. Edmund Foley married at Gissing in Sept. 1601, a 
2nd wife Alice, daughter of Fhilip Cockram, of Hampstead, co. Middlesex.^ 

The manor passed to Edmund's nephew Edmund, son of his brother 
Richard by Mary his wife, eldest daughter of John Brewse, of Little Wen- 
ham. 

Edmund Foley married ist Dorothy, daughter of Anthony Warner, of 
Stradbroke and Farham, and 2ndly Frances, 2nd daughter of Sir John 
Crofts, of Saxham. He died 13th Sept. 1640, and was buried at Badley, 
where there is an inscription given in Dr. Howard's Visitation of Suffolk.' 

The manor passed to Edmund's son and heir. Sir Edmund Foley, who 
was baptised at Badley, i6th Dec. 1619, and married Esther, daughter of 
Sir Henry Crofts of Saxham, Knt., sister and heir of WiUiam Crofts.'" 

'Inquis., 8 Hen. VII. 306. ^Fine, Mich. 9 Eliz. 

^Inquis. 3 Hen. VII. 327. ^See Inscriptions in Howard's Visitation 

^Inquis. 8 Hen. VII. 806. of Suffolk, vol. i. 281. 

■•Inquis. 3 Hen. VII. 327. ^Vol. i. p. 282. 

5 She died Aug. 28th, and was buried at "°She died 22nd June, 17 14, and was buried 

Badley, August 29th, 1575. at Badley 26th June. 
*Fine, Trin. 7 Eliz. 



240 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

Sir Edmund Foley compounded for delinquency m 1646/ and died, and 
was buried at Badley, 22nd Oct. 1671, when the manor passed to his only 
surviving son, Henry Foley. He was a member of the Middle Temple and 
M.P. for Bury in 1661, for Eye 1688 and 1690, and for Ipswich in 1705, but 
died unmarried, 7th Aug. 1707 at the age of 54. He was buried at Badley 
15th Aug. where there is an inscription to his memory, which is given in 
Dr. Howard's Visitation of Suifolk.' 

The manor passed to his sister Elizabeth, widow of Sir Richard Gipps, 
of Horringer, who had died 28th Sept. 1681. She had been married in 
Westminster Abbey, 22nd Nov. 1676. She died nth November, 1715, 
aged 67, and was succeeded by her son Richard Gipps, who married Isabella, 
3rd daughter of William Duncombe, of Battlesdon, co. Bedford, and sold 
the manor to John Crowley^of Barking, who died in 1727, and was succeeded 
by his son and heir, Sir Ambrose Crowley, Alderman of London, who died 
unmarried 22nd May, 1754. John, his brother, succeeded, but died 15th 
July, 1755, without issue, leaving two sisters only surviving, the eldest of 
whom, Theodosia, married Charles Boome, and Elizabeth, the youngest, 
married 28th June, 1756, John, 2nd Earl of Ashburnham. 

Theodosia died 9th Jan. 1765, Elizabeth in 1781, and Charles Boome 
in 1819, having had a daughter only, who died young. Lord Ashburnham 
died 8th April, 1812,^ and George, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham, 2nd, but eldest 
surviving son of the 2nd Earl, ultimately became entitled to the whole 
manor. 

He was installed a K.G. loth June, 1829, and married ist in 1784 
Sophia, 3rd daughter of Thomas Thynne, ist Marquess of Bath, K.G., and 
2nd]y in 1795 Charlotte, eldest daughter of Algernon Percy, ist Earl of 
Beverley, and died 27th Oct. 1830,' when the manor passed to his eldest 
surviving son and heir by his 2nd wife, Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham, 
who 8th Jan. 1840, married Katherine Charlotte, daughter of George 
Baillie, of Jerviswood, and sister of George, loth Earl of Haddington, and 
died 22nd June, 1878, when the manor passed to his son and heir, Bertram, 
5th Earl of Ashburnham, Viscount St. Asaph and Baron Ashburnham, who 
married 2.5th Feb. 1888, Emily, daughter of R. Chaplin, and is the present 
lord. 

Arms of Badley : Arg. a cross Sab. Of Alcock : Arg., a chevron 
engrailed Sa. betw. 3 heathcocks ppr. Of Foley : Or, a Hon rampant 
Sable armed and langued Gules. Of Crowley : Vert, on a chevron. Or, 
a star of 16 points betw. 2 roses Gu. Of Ashburnham : Sa, a fesse between 
six mullets, Argent. 



'State Papers, 1646, Cal. of Comp. 1475. ' He edited the book entitled '' A Narrative, 

'Vol. i. 283. by John Ashburnham, of his atten- 

3 See Barking Hall Manor, in this Hundred. dance on King Charles the First, 

*Will proved June, 1812. etc," 2 vols. London, 8vo., 1830. 




BARHAM. 241 

BARHAM. 

|HE main manor here was held by the Abbot of Ely in the 
time of Edward the Confessor, it having been purchased by 
Wilfric, 6th Abbot of Ely, from Earl Elgar, and given to his 
church. He was abbot in 1045. The manor comprised 
4 carucates of land. There were 24 villeins, 6 serfs, 3 
ploughteams m demesne, 8 belonging to the men. A church 
with 16 acres, i mill, 12 acres of meadow, wood for 100 hogs, 
besides a socman with 30 acres and a ploughteam. The Survey disclosed 
a considerable falling off, and the value had come down from £12 to lOOs. 
There were in the Conqueror's time 9 bordars in addition, but 4 serfs 
had disappeared. The ploughteams in demesne were reduced by two- 
thirds, and those of the men from 8 to 6. The wood which was formerly 
sufficient for 100 hogs now was capable of maintaining 16 only, but it is true 
there were 9 hogs and 17 sheep, beasts absent in Saxon times. The length 
was a league and the breadth y^ quarantenes, and the manor paid in a gelt 2od. 
A freeman here with 35 acres was in the abbot's soc and commendation. 
Attached to this holding in Saxon times were a ploughteam, a bordar, 3 acres 
of meadow, and a mill valued at los. By the time of the Survey the value 
had doubled and the bordars were 2, but there was then only half a plough- 
team. It is evident that in the early part of WilUam the Conqueror's time 
the land had been in the hands of the King, for the Survey states that 
Roger de Otburville used to hold of the King, but at the time of the Survey 
Roger held of the abbot.' 

There were two other small manors here in the Confessor's day, one 
held by Brictuolt, a freeman under commendation to Edric, with 40 acres 
valued at 65. 8^. Brictuolt still seemed to have possession at the time of 
the Domesday Survey, but he was under William Gulaffra, who held of 
Robert Malet as tenant in chief. The King and the Earl had the soc.^ 

The other manor was held by Lustwin in Saxon times, with 60 acres. 
Wisgar had half the commendation and soc, and the Abbot of Ely the other 
moiety and soc. There was in Saxon times a ploughteam there, but it 
seems to have disappeared by the time of the Survey. There were always 
5 bordars, and 3 acres of meadow, and the value was los. By the time of the 
Norman Survey Gosbert held this manor of Roger de Poictou. Roger de 
Poictou, who had two other holdings here, one of 7 freemen with 47 acres, 
formerly having 2 ploughteams, but in his day only one, 2 bordars, valued 
at 105. This also was at the time of the Survey held by Gosbert of Roger 
de Poictou. The other holding was of a freeman with an acre valued at 
^d. He also held 4 freemen, with 40 acres and 1 ploughteam, in Saxon times 
valued at 8s., but at the time of the Survey at 6s. 8^. Of three of these 
freemen the abbot had half the soc and the whole of the commendation, 
and of the fourth the King had the soc and commendation.^ 

Barham Manor. 

Henry, ist Bishop of Ely from ii09-ii33,on the division of the Church's 
possessions assigned all interest in the manor to the monks, who held the 
same until the Dissolution. The Prior of Ely claimed view of frankpledge 
and assize of bread and beer in Barham in the time of Edw. L* The grant 
of free warren to the priory was in 1252.^ 

'Dom. ii. 3836. "Q-W. 729. 

^Dom. ii. 305. 5 Chart. Rolls, 36 Hen. III. ti. 

^Dom. ii. 441. 

GI 



242 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

For many generations after the Dissolution the Manor of Barham was 
the possession of the family of Southwell, who derive their surname from 
the town of Suthwellor Southwell, in the county of Nottingham, part of its 
feudal possessions until the time of Hen. VI., when its collateral branches 
removed into Norfolk and Suffolk, and surrounding counties. 

John, the eldest son of John Southwell, of Felix Hall, in Essex, was the 
first to move to Barham. He represented the Borough of Lewes in 
Parliament in 1451, and lived at Barham Hall, but did not, of course, then 
own the manor. He married Joan, daughter of William Curzon, of Bright- 
well, and afterwards AUce, daughter and coheir of Sir Edmund Berry, Knt., 
widow of Sir Thomas Bardolf. His eldest son, Robert, was a serjeant 
at law and Sheriff for Norfolk and Suffolk in 1494. He married Cecilia, 
daughter of Thomas Sharington, of Cranworth, in Norfolk, by whom he had 
issue John and William. 

Robert Southwell died 27th Sept. 15 14, and was buried in the parish 
church of Barham, being succeeded by his eldest son, John Southwell, 
who in 1545 obtained a grant of this manor, with the advowson of the church, 
and a wood called Bergham Coppice. John Southwell married Elizabeth, 
daughter of Robert Foster, of Birch, in Essex, and had issue three sons and 
six daughters. John Southwell, the eldest, succeeded his father. In his earlier 
days he waited upon Sir Nicholas Bacon, the Lord Keeper. He married 
Margaret, daughter of Edmund Crofts, of West Stow, by Eleanor, his 2nd wife, 
daughter of Thomas, Lord Borough, by whom he had issue four sons, 
Robert, Richard, John, and Edmund, and two daughters, Elizabeth, married 
to James Berry, and Ursula, married to Sir Thomas Richardson, of 
Huningham, in Norfolk, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the 
time of Charles I. 

Against the north chancel wall of Barham Church is erected a large 
altar tomb to his memory. It is composed of coloured marble, having 
been made in Ireland and sent over in 1640 by his son. Sir Richard Southwell. 
It is surmounted by a recumbent figure of John Southwell arrayed in a 
doublet fastened down the front with a row of httle buttons ; puffed trunk 
hose and loose breeches buttoned down to the knee, where they are finished 
off with bows. His high-heeled shoes are furnished with rosettes at the 
instep. He wears moustache and small pointed beard, hair moderately 
long, and a broad collar falling over the doublet. On his left, turned toward 
her husband, and supporting herself on her right elbow, Kes his wife Margaret, 
a full-faced matron in the spreading petticoat of the time, which had to be 
somewhat modified to suit the sculptor's requirements. The dress is cut 
square at the neck, showing the vandyked edge of an under-garment, neck 
and wrists furnishedwith ruffs. The headdress is a close coif with vandyked 
border concealing the hair except just above the ears, and over this is worn 
a hood with lappets depending some way below the shoulder. She wears 
a sleeveless mantle, open in front, and holds a skull in her left hand. Behind 
the tomb is a pediment supported by two pairs of columns, with a panel 
between them inscribed in Roman capitals : — 

THIS MONUMENT IS SENTE OVER 

FROM THE CITTIE OF LIMRICK IN IRE 

LAND BY S'^ RICHARD SOUTHWELL KT. 

SECOND SON OF JO'' SOUTHWELL OF 

BARHAM ESQ. AND MARGRETT HIS 

WIFE AS A PIOUS REMEMBRANCE OF 

THEM TO BE LEFT TO THEIR POSTERITY. 

AN° D°. 1640. 



BARHAM. 243 

Above . is placed a shield with the arms of Southwell impaling 
Sherington.' 

John Southwell, the son, left in Barham and elsewhere ^^700 or £800 per 
annum to his son, Robert Southwell, who sold a great part of his estate He 
married in 1592 Frances,' daughter of Thomas Huison, of the Isle of Ely, 
and had seven children, but is said to have died without issue in 1629, being 
buried in the chancel of Barham Church 9th Feb. that year. He was 
succeeded by his brother and heir. Sir Richard Southwell, who was of 
Singland, co. Limerick, and in 1640 was Deputy Governor of Clare, in Ireland. 

He died the same year without issue, and was succeeded in the lordship 
of this parish by his brother and heir, John Southwell, who died in 1652, 
and was buried at Barham, 30th Aug. that year. Shortly afterwards the 
manor and Barham Hall were sold to John Lambe, whose ancestors were 
of Trimley. 

The manor did not long remain with Lambe, for we find it vested in 
Thomas Wood, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, who died in 1692, and 
by his will dated nth Nov. 1690, gave it to his nephew, Henry Webb, 
charging it with the payment of £30 per annum to the poor men in his hospital 
at Ufford, and at Wickham, or with the repairs of the hospital. 

Henry Webb was succeeded by his son and heir Henry, who died 
without issue, and the manor was sold to Robert Burch, who died in 
1725, when it passed to Joseph Smith, of Sproughton, and later to his son and 
heir, Joseph Burch Smyth, of Stoke Hall, in Ipswich, High Sheriff of Suffolk 
in 1832. It afterwards passed to the Phillipps family, and was held by Major 
Charles Burch Phillipps, who married Amy Florence, daughter of the Rev. 
William Colvill, and died in 1883, when the manor passed to his widow, 
and on her death to his eldest son, Charles Phillipps, but it seems now to 
belong to Major-General Henry Pye Phillipps. The Hall was rebuilt in 
1854- 

Amongst the Chancery Proceedings in the time of Elizabeth is a claim 
as heir by WiUiam Rose against Henry Rose to a messuage and land held 
of this manor by plaintiff's late father and grandfather, and which plaintiff 
claimed to inherit as youngest son of his father by custom of this manor. ^ 
This would seem to show that the custom of Borough English prevailed m 
this manor. 

A fine also was levied of " Barham Manor " by R. Lee against Thomas 
Blenerhassett and others in 1599.* 

Arms of Southwell : Argent, three cinquefoils. Gules, each charged 
with 6 annulets, Or. 

Shrub LAND Manor. 

Shrubland Manor was in early records written Scrobeland. The 
earliest occurrence of the name seems to be Robert de Shrubeland, as witness 
to a deed without date of Hugh de Beckingale, when he first granted the 
manor of Veysey's to the Prior and Convent of Royston. 

In the time of Edw. III., John de Shrubeland was owner of these lands. 
He is supposed to have been one of the sons of Godmanston, and became 
possessed either by purchase or marriage, and according to the practice of 
those times dropped his paternal name and assumed the local one from the 

'E.A.N, and Q., vi. 179. ^C.F. ii. 422. 

*She died 23rd Jan. 1607, aged 29, and ''Fine, Hil. 41 Eliz. 
was buried at Barham 28th Jan. 



244 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

place of his residence. The tenure of the family, however, had but short 
duration, the male line having failed in William de Shrubeland his son.' 

This manor passed to WiJHam at Oake by his marriage with the heir 
general of William de Shrubeland, and it continued in his descendants for four 
generations, when Catherine, daughter and heir general of Philip Oake, by 
marriage with Thomas Bothe brought it into that family, where it continued 
no longer than it did in that of Shrubland, for the name of Bothe ended in 
Sir Philip Bothe, his son, who left an only daughter and heir Audrey, married 
to Sir Robert Lytton," of Knebworth, in Hertfordshire, K.B. 

A fine was levied of the manor by Sir Andrew Wyndesoure, Lord W^ind- 
sor and others against Philip Bothe in 1535,^ and we meet with two other 
fines of the manor in 1558 and 1560. The first was levied as to one third of 
the manor by John Goodwyn and others against Thomas Littyll and others.'* 
and the second in 1560 by Frances Walsyngham as to one third against the 
said Thomas " Lyttle " and others.' 

Two other fines apparently deal with another third of the manor, one 
in 1554 levied by William Lawson and others against John Brockett and 
others,^ and the other in 1565 by the said John Brockett and others against 
Edmund Ickynghoo and wife.^ 

The fines no doubt applied to the shares of the manor which descended 
on the death of Sir Robert Lytton to his three daughters and coheirs. 

Ehzabeth the 2nd daughter married Thomas Little, of Bray, in Berkshire, 
by whom she had issue an only daughter and heir Helen, who married 
Edward Bacon, 3rd son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, the Lord Keeper to Queen 
Elizabeth, and brought it into that branch of the Bacon family, who held 
the same for several generations. 

Shrubland Manor did not however wholly pass to Ehzabeth, the 2nd 
daughter of Sir Robert Lytton, for we find the manor included in an agree- 
ment in 1557 concerning special livery of the Court of Wards and Liveries 
to Thomas Brokett and Anne his wife — another of the daughters of Sir Robert 
Lytton — in right of the said Anne. The agreement is dated i8th Nov. 
4 and 5 Philip and Mary, and is in EngHsh and Latin.^ ' i 

Edward Bacon, who married the Lytton heiress, died in 1618, leaving 
his widow, who survived until 1646. Her son, Nicholas Bacon, died in 1637, 
having married Bridget, daughter of Lionel ToUemache, and left a son 
Nicholas, who married Catherine, daughter of Edward, Earl of Sandwich. 
Their son Nicholas married Dorothy Temple, and died in 1767, leaving a 
son, the Rev. Nicholas Bacon, who married A. M. Browne, and died in 
1795, shortly after which the manor was sold to WiUiam Middleton, of 
Crowfield, who was created a Baronet in 1804, and assumed by sign manual 
in 1822 the surname of Fowle in addition to and before that of Middleton. 

Sir William was the eldest son of William, son of Arthur Middleton, 
sometime Governor of South Carohna. In 1782 he was High Sheriff of the 
county, during which year he received the thanks of the county for his active 
exertions in promoting the patriotic measure of building by voluntary 
contributors a seventy-four gunship for the service of the Government, and 
in 1784 and 1803 represented Ipswich in Parliament. At the general 
election in 1806 he was returned to Parliament for the Cmque Ports. He 

'Page, p. 568. spi^e^ Mich. 2 Eliz. 

"For pedigree see Harl. MSS. 1504, 1546, ^Fine, Easter, 2 Mary I. 

6147 ; Add. MSS. 19140. ''Fine, Easter, 7 Eliz. 

^Fine, Trin. 27 Hen. VIII. ^A.dd. Ch. 28954. 
■*Fine, Mich. 5, Mary I. 



BARHAM. 



H5 



married in 1774 Harriot/ daughter of Nathaniel Acton, of Bramford Hall, 
and died 26th Dec. 1829, in his 84th year, leaving a son, Sir William Fowle 
Middleton, 2nd Baronet, who then became lord of this manor, and from 
this time to the present the manor has descended in the same course as the 
Manor of Lawshall, in Babergh Hundred, and is now vested in James St. 
Vincent Saumarez, 4th Baron De Saumarez, who is the present lord. 

Shrubland Hall was mostly erected by Sir William Middleton, the ist 
Bart., when he removed from Crowfield Hall. It is finely situated on an 
eminence overlooking the woods which are near the mansion. 

The prospect is extensive along the valley, where the river from Stow- 
market to Ipswich pleasingly varies the scene. Looking over the vvoods 
at the foot of the house one's eye encounters the richly-clothed hills opposite 
at about a mile and a hall distance over the meadows which form the 
valley. 

To the right and left the valley with its winding stream and the hills 
on either side, as far as the eye can distinctly see, with the churches, villages, 
and turnpike road for nearly 12 miles, form the landscape from the mansion. 
The approach from the Norwich Road is through about a mile and a half of 
ornamental grounds. 

The mansion was much improved by Sir William Fowle Middle- 
ton. The park comprises about 300 acres, and is stocked with deer, and 
said to contain probably the finest chestnut trees in the county. 

Arms of Oake : Sable, on a fesse. Argent, between 6 acorns, or three 
and three, three oak leaves, ppr. Of Bothe, Argent, three boars' heads, 
erect and erased, Sable, langued Gules. Of Lytton : Ermine, on a chief 
indented Azure, three ducal coronets, Or. Of Little : Party per chevron 
Argent and Sable ; in chief, two fleurs-de-lis ; in base a castle triple 
towered, each counterchanged. 



' She died 25th Aug. 1852, at the age of 
98. She inherited the property of 
her uncle, John Fowle, of Brorae 
Hall, in Norfolk, and assumed 
his surname. She subsequently 
succeeded to the estates of 
Baptist Lees, comprising Liver- 
mere Park and Lawshall, and a 
large property in London. On the 
monuments erected to her and her 
husband's memory in Barham 



Church it is stated that " her 
Christian virtues were justly honored 
and cherished by those who enjoyed 
the blessing of her parental affection , 
and by all who dwell with grate- 
ful recollection on her warm friend- 
ship and active benevolence. Also 
that her life was passed in the 
practice of the duties that religion 
enjoys, and was closed in the hopes 
that it inspires." 




246 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

BARKING MANOR, or BARKING-CUM-NEEDHAM. 

^N the time of Edward the Confessor this manor was held by 
the monks of Ely, with sac and soc and 7 carucates of land. 
There were 27 villeins, 24 bordars, 5 serfs, 3 ploughteams in 
demesne, and 24 ploughteams belonging to the men. A 
church with 83 acres of free land, and 2 ploughteams, and 52 
acres of meadow. There were also the following : wood 
for 50 hogs, I mill, and an enclosure of another mill, and in 
the enclosure of the other mill Robert Malet had a share, and 2 arpents of 
vineyard. 

In demesne there were 11 rouncies, 23 beasts, 30 hogs, 100 sheep, and 
48 goats ; and there were 4 freemen with 6 acres and a ploughteam. These 
men were added to the manor in King William's time, and were valued at 
2s. The King and the Earl had the soc. Hardwin had one and a half of the 
above when he forfeited, and then the abbot held. The manor was in Saxon 
times valued at £16, and the abbot gave it to farm for ^^20. It was a league 
and 4 quarantenes long and 8 quarantenes broad, and paid 2od. m a gelt. 

The condition of this manor had somewhat varied by the time of the 
Norman Survey. There were two villeins and i serf less, but the boidars 
had increased to 30. There were 9 fewer ploughteams belonging to the men. 
Roger Bigot also held here 118 acres of the abbot's demesne, and a church 
with 6 acres, valued at los.' 

Ministers' Accounts of the Bishop of Ely's temporalities here 14 Edw. 
I. and 26 to 28 Edw. I. will be found in the Public Record Office.^ The 
miU mentioned m the Domesday Survey seems to be mentioned also in the 
inquisition p.m. of Robert de Tybetot 26 Edw. I. (39). An mquisition con- 
cerning the Bishop of Ely's land in Barking, 30 Edw. III., will be found 
amongst the Additional MSS. of the British Museum.^ 

In 1316 the manor was apparently in the Monastery of Ely, but later 
became vested in the bishop, in whom the bishopric and the advowson 
continued until the 4th of Queen Elizabeth, when they were taken from 
the bishropic by the Crown. In fact, they were vested in the Crown by 
Act of Parliament, for a pension of ^^135. ys. 2d. payable to the bishop. 

Particulars of what are called the Queen's woods and woodlands in 
the manor, 27 Ehz. will be found in the Exchequer Special Commissions in 
the Record Office," and a Survey also 2 Jac. I.^ 

Amongst the State Papers is an account of the rental of the manor 
described as " late of the Bishop of Ely," with names of tenants, &c. The 
total amount of the rental is £63. 75. 3|i.* 

In 1609 William Glover asked for a lease of the manor,'' but he does not 
seem to have obtained it, as the manor and estate were sold in 1611 to 
Sir Francis Needham and John Yeomans and the heirs of Sir Francis, with 
liberty to impark 400 acres.^ Sir Francis Needham in 1637 informed 
King James I. that he would build an almshouse in the manor.^ 

Sir Francis Needham died in 1637, ^^^ devised the manor to his eldest 
son, Thomas, who married Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Jenny, of Bright- 
well, K.B., and sold it to Francis Theobald, son of Thomas Theobald, of 

'Dom. ii. 3826, 383- ^ State Papers, 1599.367- 

^Bundle 1132, No. 9, 10. 'State Papers, 1609, 508. 

3 Add. 6165. estate Papers, 1611, 14. 

^D.K.R., 38 App. p. 34- ^State Papers, 1637. 77- 
^Ib. p. 74. 



BARKING. 247 

Wrentham. Thomas Theobald married, ist, Sarah, sister of Sir Robert 
Crompton, Knt. ; 2ndly Mary, widow of Peregrine Clarke, of Kersey Priory ; 
and srdly Theodosia, daughter of Sir Robert Chester, of Cockenhatch, co. 
Herts, Knt., and by his will dated 1652,' devised the manor to his eldest 
surviving son. Sir Francis Theobald, of Barking Hall. 

Sir Francis Theobald married ist Anne, daughter of Robert Nightingale' 
and Theodosia his wife, daughter of Robert Charles, and 2nd]y Elizabeth, 
sister of Sir John Marshall, of Finchingfield, co. Essex, Knt. He was knighted, 
nth May, 1669, and dying in January was buried ist Feb. 1679, at Barking, 
when the manor passed to his son and heir, Robert Theobald, of Barking 
Hall. He made his will, dated nth Oct. 1690,' by which he devised the 
manor to his sister Anne, married to the Rev. Joseph Gascoigne, D.D., Vicar 
of Enfield, co. Middlesex. He died in 1721, and his widow in 1726, when the 
manor passed to their daughter, Theodosia Gascoigne, who was also devisee 
under the will of her brother Theobald, he having died i6th Oct. 1714, in 
his father and mother's lifetime. 

Against the south wall of the church of Barking is a funeral urn carved 
in low relief upon which is an inscription to the memory of this Theobald 
Gascoyne, put up by his sister Theodosia : — 

This monument was erected by 
Mrs. Theodosia Crowley to the memory 

of her affectionate brother Theobald 

Gascoyne Esq'- in gratitude for his great 

kindness to her in his last will, by which he 

left her sole heiress of Barking Hall, the 

Manor of Barking and all his 

estates therein. He died October the 16, 1714, 

aged 26 years, and is buried in the 

vault beneath this isle. 

The arms of Gascoyne are placed on a shield below. 

Theodosia Gascoyne married John Crowley, of Greenwich, only son 
ol Sir Ambrose Crowley, Knt. He died 2nd Jan. 1727. 

In the north aisle in Barking Church, against the south wall at the east 
end, is the following inscription to his memory : — 

To the memory of John Crowley Esq'- of Greenwich in Kent (only son of 
S- Ambrose Crowley Knt.) who died the 2^- of January 1727 aged 39 years,and 

is buried in the vault under this isle -with four of his children. 
He married Theodosia Gascoyne, daughter of the Rev^- Doctor Gascoyne, 

by Ann 
daughter of S'- Francis Theobald Knt. and heiress of this manour of 

Barking, by 

whom he has six children, two sons and four daughters. 

The eldest son, Ambrose Crowley Esq'- succeeded his father in this estate 

of Barking, and added by purchase the manours of Badly, Combs and 

Collumbrine. 
He died unmarried May the 22**- 1754 aged 36 years. 

' He was buried at Barking, 3rd Feb. 1652. tions will be found in East Anglian 

^ There is a large marble tombstone to her Notes and Queries, vol. vi. p. 297. 

memory in the south chapel of the ^ Proved P.C.C, 212 Dyke. 

church of Barking, and the inscrip- 



248 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

John Crowley Esq' 2""^ son died unmarried July 15th 1755 aged 35 years. 
Mary, the eldest daughter, married the Right Hon'''^ S' Wm. Stanhope, 

Knt. of 
the Bath, she died without issue Feb''' 27th 1746 and is buried at Shelford in 

Nottinghamshire, aged 25 years. 

Ann, the second daughter died Nov'- 17th 1734 aged 13 years. 

Theodosia third daughter and coheiress of her brother's estates 

married 
Charles Boone Esq'- by whom she had only one daughter, She died 

Jan'> 

the 9th 1765, aged 40 years. 

Elizabeth the youngest daughter and coheiress of her brother's estates 

now living, married John, Earl of Ashburnham, by whom she had one 

son and 
four daughters. 

This monument was erected Nov'- the 25th, 1771, by Mrs. Theodosia 
Crowley, widow of the said John Crowley Esq' who survived all her children 
and lived to a great age, an exemplary pattern of virtue and goodness ; 
blessed with a most amiable disposition, her constant wish was to make 
others happy ; very generous to private distress, and very charitable to the 
poor ; no one was more esteemed while living ; or more lamented at her 
death. She died May the 7th 1782, Aged 89 years. 

There is also a hatchment, Crowley, Vert, on a chevron. Or, a star of 
sixteen points between two roses Gu, impaling Gascoyne i and 2. Arg. 
on a pale Sa., a demi-lucy erect couped or, for Gascoyne, 2. Per pale. Ermine 
and Gu.,a rose counterchanged for Nightingale, 3. Sa., a fesse embattled 
between three owls Arg. ; for Theobald, Crest on a mount Vert, a sun 
charged with a rose Gu. 

Theodosia Crowley died 17th May, 1782, at the age of 8g, when the 
manor passed to her son and heir, Ambrose Crowley, who purchased the 
Manor of Badley, in this Hundred, and of Combs and Columbine in Stow 
Hundred, and died 22nd May, 1754, aged 36, unmarried. From this time 
the manor has passed in the same course as the Manor of Badley, in this 
Hundred. 

Amongst the Chancery Proceedings of the time of Elizabeth is a suit 
Edw. Uttyng v. John Woode, touchmg copyhold held of this manor." 

There is a fine of Barking Hall manor in 1558 levied by Andrew Ryvett 
against Richard Veere. It relates also to lands m " Stradbroke Wilbys.'" 

Arms of Needham : Argent, a bend engrailed, Azure between 2 bucks' 
heads caboshed. Sable. Of Theobald : Sable, a fesse embattled, betw. 3 
owls. Argent, wings displayed. Of Gascoigne : Arg. on a pale Sable, a 
demi-lucy erect, couped Or. 

Overhall Manor. 
In 1609 this manor was held by King's College, Cambridge. 



'C.P. Ser. ii. B. clxxxiii. 8. Tine, Mich. 6 Mary I. 




BATTISFORD. 249 

BATTISFORD. 

I HERE were in Saxon times two manors here, one was held 
by Aluric, a freeman, with one carucate of land. Attached 
to this manor were 8 bordars, 2 ploughteams in demesne, 
half a ploughteam belonging to the men, 6 acres of meadow, 
and wood for 20 hogs. There was also half a church with 
20 acres. 

The value was 30s. by the time of the Norman Survey, 
when the above particulars were slightly varied, one ploughteam in demesne 
having disappeared, but there were additional i rouncy, 4 beasts, 12 hogs, 
21 sheep, and 4 goats. 

To the manor the tenant in chief, Hugh de Montfort, added 5 freemen, 
with a carucate and 10 acres of land, 3 bordars, i ploughteam and a half 
(there had been 3), 6 acres of meadow, wood for 5 hogs at the value of 20s. 
The Survey adds, " This is on account of the exchange with St. Augustine's 
land." The whole was held by Roger de Candos of Hugh de Montfort, 
and the King and the Earl had the soc. It was 10 quarantenes long and 
5 broad, and paid in a gelt lod.^ 

Another manor was held in the Confessor's day by Kering, a freeman, 
with a carucate and 20 acres of land. There were i serf, 2 ploughteams 
in demesne, half a one belonging to the men, 6 acres of meadow, wood for 
60 hogs, and 2 rouncies. Half a church with 20 acres, and the value was 
25s. 

In the time of the Domesday Survey the manor was held by Lamagot 
under Eudo, son of Spiruic, as tenant in chief, but there was only one plough- 
team in demesne, wood for 10 hogs only, but additional stock in the form 
of 20 hogs, II sheep, and 12 goats. Eudo, son of Spiruic, also had here 
3 freemen with 20 acres and half a ploughteam, valued at 5s., of which the 
King and the Earl had the soc. Over two of the freemen Eudo's predecessor 
had commendation.^ 

The only other holdings here mentioned m the Survey are one amongst 
the possessions of Roger Bigot and the other of the Vavasours. The first 
was a matter of 10 acres and a team of 2 oxen and one bordar, valued formerly 
at 20^., but at the time of the Survey at 3s., of which the King and the 
Earl had the soc. 

The bordar had been added in Norman days. These 10 acres were at 
the time of the Survey held by William de Burnville of Roger Bigot, but 
in the Confessor's time had been held by a freeman named Godric under 
Harold's commendation.^ 

The other holding, that amongst those of the Vavasours, was what a 
freeman Durand had held in the Confessor's time, namely, 30 acres with half 
a ploughteam and 2 acres of meadow. At the time of the Survey there was 
but a team of two oxen, and the estate was held by Siward in the King's soc.* 

BATTISFORD OR BiSHOP'S HALL MANOR. 

This, the main manor, was in the time of Rich. I. the lordship of William 
Gemun, and later of his son Thomas, at whose death it passed to Philip de 
Columbers. 

'Dom. ii. 410. ^Dom. ii. 3366. 

^Dom. ii. 4346. *Dom. ii. 446. 

H I 



250 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

In the Record of Pleas in the time of King John, wecome across a finding 
that William, the father of Thomas Gernun, was seised of the town of Battis- 
ford at his death, and that the land was worth ;^io per annum, and was held 
by Philip de Columbers.' 

This Philip de Columbers sold the manor to Robert de Curtency upon 
condition that he should give it to Egelina his daughter on her marriage 
with Philip de Columbers, the younger son of the vendor, and it accordingly 
became the marriage portion of the said EgeUna. On her death it vested 
in Philip de Columbers the younger, who died in 1262, when it passed to his 
son and heir, another Philip de Columbers, then aged 32.'' 

A Philip de Columbers, probably the one above termed the younger, is 
said in the Red Book of the Exchequer to have held 3 fees here in the time 
of Hen. III.,^ and the Testa de Nevill assigns to the same Philip half a 
knight's fee held of the Honor of Haughley/ 

Philip de Columbers the third died in 1277, and was succeeded by his 
brother, John de Columbers, from whom the manor passed to William de 
Carleton in 1288.^ The Davy MSS. state that John died in 1306, and was 
succeeded by Philip de Columbus, jun., who sold in 1318 to John de Grey, 
Bishop of Norwich.^ 

William de Carleton died seised in 1305, and by an inquisition p.m. 
1320, it was found that Geoffrey Carleton had died seised. It is said, how- 
ever, that a patent was granted in 1317 creating a manor here for the Bishop 
of Norwich,^ and he certainly had free warren the following year.^ The 
Ministers' Accounts of the bishop's temporalities here, 18 to 20 Edw. II. 
will be found m the Public Record Office.' 

The manor remained in the Bishopric of Norwich until 1535, when it 
was taken by Act of Parliament from that see, and given to the Crown and 
in 1545 Hen. VIII. granted it to Sir Richard Gresham and Richard Billing- 
ford. 

Page makes out that it was the manor of " Lyngges " which was 
granted to Sir Richard Gresham and Richard Billingford, and it is indeed 
difficult to distinguish between the different manors of Battisford. 

Sir John Gresham, son of Sir Richard, succeeded on Sir Richard's death, 
2ist Feb. 1548.'° Page says that the manor passed on the death of Sir Richard 
Gresham to his son, Sir Thomas Gresham, founder of the Royal Exchange, 
London, and adds " and against the demesne lands of this manor, which in 
part hes against the Tye called Battisford Tye, being a large common of 
about 200 acres, upon which Tye or Common the said Royal Exchange 
was framed, and the saw pits remained there not many years since ; and 
much, or at least a great part of the timber wherewith the said Exchange 
was built was taken off the lands belonging to the demesne of this lordship." 
The meaning of the former part of this sentence is certainly not obvious 
to the least intelligent ! 

On the death of Sir John, the manor went to William Gresham, who 
sold the same to John Barker, who, dying in 1609, was succeeded by his 

'Abbr. of Pleas, 11 John 9, in dorso. 'The idea of the creation of a manor by 

^I.P.M., 46 Hen. III. file 26, (10). patent is somewhat peculiar. 

3CXXXV. rider C. ^ Chart. Rolls, 12 Ed. II. 58. 

"^T. de N., 290. ^Bundle 1141, No. i. 

5 Feet of Fines, William de Carleton v. '°I.P.M., 3 Edw. VI. 77. 

John de Columbariis, 16 Edw. I. i. 
^See 10 Rep. Hist. MSS. Com. pt. iii. 119 ; 

Licence Pat. Rolls, 11 Edw. II. pt. 

i. 15- 



BATTISFORD. 251 

son and heir. Sir Robert Barker, K.B., of Grimston Hall, in Trimley. This 
is the devolution of the Davy MSS. and others, but we meet in 1588 with a 
fine direct by Robert Barker and others against WilUam Gresham and 
others, and under this fine it would seem that the manor must have passed.' 

Sir Robert died in 161 8, when the manor passed to his son and heir. 
Sir Thomas Barker, by Susannah his 2nd wife, daughter of Thomas Crofts, 
of Westow, and sister of Sir John Crofts, of Saxham, Knt. Sir Thomas 
Barker sold the manor to Martin Salter. He rebuilt the Hall, called 
" Bishop Hall," and served the office of High Sheriff for the county in 
1655, His estate was estimated at that time to be worth £600 a year. His 
father was rector of Monk's Illeigh. Martin Salter"" married Elizabeth, 
daughter of Thomas Bowes, and sister of Sir Thomas Bowes, Knt., of 
Much Bromley, co. Essex, and on his death the manor passed to his son 
and heir Thomas Salter, who married Elizabeth, daughterof John Bright, of 
Talmash Hall, in Bricett. The three sons of Martin Salter were Thomas, 
Martin, and George, and the daughter Elizabeth. In 1806 the manor was 
vested in Charles Broome. The 30th Nov. 1819, the Manor of Battisford 
Hall and 355 acres of land with the Manor of Lucys, its royalties, rights, 
members, and appurtenances, with the advowson, were offered for sale by 
public auction in London.^ This same property was again offered for sale 
in London at Garraway's, 20th Feb. 1846, when the income was stated to 
be nearly £400 a year. 

Bishop's Hall at Battisford is described as a brick building about 50 feet 
by 54 on the ground plot, and the garden walls adjoining, all to be taken 
down were offered for sale in June, 1757. 

Arms of Gresham : Argent, a chevron. Ermine, betw. three mullets 
pierced. Sable. Of Salter : Gules, 10 mullets, 4, 3, 2, and i : or, a bordure 
engrailed Argent, charged with 16 hurts and torteauses alternately. 

Lyngges or Ling's Manor. 

The first we hear of this manor is in 1433, when we find it vested in 
William Wrangle, and a little later in Richard Fillade of Ipswich, who sold 
the manor to Walter Lyhert, Bishop of Norwich. The bishop refers to 
the manor in his will dated in 1741, as " his manor of Lyngges in Battis- 
ford." He left it with other lands, " lately purchased of Richard Fulade 
of Ipswich," to find a chaplain to celebrate divine service for ever at the 

' Fine, Hil. 30 Eliz. ^Ipswich Journal, 23rd Oct. 1819. 

' The following is his pedigree : — 

John Salter, of Rokenden, co. Salop 



Thomas Salter = Anne Cleede 



I 
Robert Salter= Anne, d. of Robert Pigot, 

^1 of Chetwyne, co. Salop 

I 
Richard Salter = Jane, daughter of John Samuels, 

^1 of Langford Hall, co. Essex 

I 
Blaise Salter, = Collett, dau. of Richard Smith, 

Sec. to John, Earl of Oxford I of Kidderminster 



Edward Salter =Mary, daughter of James Nunn, 

Rector of Monk's Illeigh I of Felsham 

Martin Salter 



252 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

altar on the north side of his grave, for his own soul and the souls of his 
family, and of John Lyhert his kinsman, and for the souls of his predecessors ; 
for which the chaplain was to receive £io per annum, on further condition 
that every year in Advent and Lent he should preach every Sunday to 
the people of the diocese. He further directs his executors and feoffees 
either to settle the estate to these uses or else sell it. 

Lyngges Manor was settled according to the terms of the will. We 
subsequently find the manor vested in James Hobart, who was one of the 
executors of Bishop Lyhert, and probably a relation. He died seised in 
1516, when the manor passed to his son and heir, Sir Walter Hobart. In 
1534 it was leased by Rich. Nykke or Nix, one of the testator's successors 
in the see, for 72 years at £13. 15s. 6d. per annum to Henry Aylmer.' 

It seems that the bishop had to make the most he could out of the 
estates of his diocese in order to pay the fine of 10,000 marks levied upon 
him for suing in the Court of Rome, and appealing thither in matters 
concerning the King. 

On the Patent Rolls of 1345 mention is made of a Manor belonging to 
Avice, late wife of Robert Houtot, in Thorneye, held of the Bishop of 
Norwich of Battisford Manor.'' 

Amongst the Chancery Proceedings of the time of Queen Elizabeth is 
an action by Sir Henry Neville, Elizabeth his wife, and another against 
James " Hubbert," as to a parcel of Lyngges Manor.^ 

In 1565 a fine was levied of the manor by William Tymperley against 
the said James Hobart and his wife."* The manor was by Act of Parhament 
surrendered to the Crown with other revenues belonging to the Bishopric 
of Norwich. 

In 1819 this manor was vested in the owner of the main manor of 
Battisford Hall. 

COMMANDRY OF St. JoHn'S MaNOR. 

Another manor, now known as St. John's Manor, was the lordship of 
the Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, who had a 
commandryhere. It was granted on the Dissolution m 1543 by Hen. VIII. 
to Sir Richard Gresham, father of Sir Thomas Gresham, founder of the Royal 
Exchange. 

The following translation of an extract from a particular for grant 
remaining in the Augmentation Office, Westminster, and now in the Public 
Record Office, shows the extent of this estate : — 

" This Manor or late Commandry of Battisford, alias Babysford, in 
the county of Suffolk. Rents of Assize of divers Free Tenants of the 
lord the King and here yearly paid at the Feasts of Easter and St. Michael 
the Archangel, equally, as by the rental thereof made and received, 
particularly appears 2s. 3d. and ilb. of pepper. 

" Rents of divers Copyholders of the Lord the King there yearly paid 
at the Feasts aforesaid, equally, as by the Rental aforesaid, particularly 
appears 6os„, 4d. Rents of divers Tenants at the will of the Lord the King, 
there yearly paid at the Feasts aforesaid, equally as by the Rental aforesaid, 
particularly appears 7s. gd. Farm of all the House and Site of the Manor 
or late Commandry of Battisford aforesaid, in the County aforesaid, together 
with all houses, edifices, barns, stables, dove-cotes, orchards, gardens, 
garden grounds, land and soil, as well being within the Site and precincts of 

'Bodl. Norf. Ch. 292. ^C.P. Ser. ii. B. cxxxii. 93. 

'Pat. Rolls, 19 Edw. III.pt. i. 13^. •'Fine, Easter, 7 Eliz. 



BATTISFORD. 253 

the same Site adjoining, and Seventy-six acres of arable land, Forty-and- 
two acres of pasture, and twelve acres of meadow, with the appurtenances 
l5dng and being in Battisford aforesaid, to the said late Commandry 
appertaining and belonging, except yet always and to the said Lord the 
King, his heirs, and successors always reserved all great Trees and Woods 
of in and upon the premises growing and being now leased to Sir Richard 
Gresham, Knight, by Indenture under the Seal of the Court of Augmenta- 
tion of the Revenues of the Crown of the Lord the King for the term of 
21 years commencing at the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel in the 36th 
year of the reign of the Lord the now King Henry VUL, rendering therefor 
at the aforesaid Feasts equally, yearly £7. 

" Perquisites of Courts there one year with another, £5. 

" Total, £10. 13s. 4d., and i lb. of pepper. 

" Memorandum, The King's Majesty hath no other lands nor tenements, 
rents, emoluments, or other hereditaments, within the said Towne of Battis- 
ford, to the said late Commandry belonging or appertaining. Examined 
by me, Wilham Rigge, for Exchange between the Lord the King and Sir 
Richard Gresham, i8th day of February in the 35th year of the reign of 
King Henry 8th." [1543-4-] 

Amongst the Chancery Proceedings of the time of Queen Elizabeth will 
be found a bill by James Eliot to recover money paid for repairs against 
Dame Anne Gresham, wife of Sir Thomas as to the manor house called 
Saint John's, and lands in Battisford, Ringsall, and Combs demised to plain- 
tiff by Sir Thomas Gresham.' 

The manor went with the Battisford Hall Manor, or Bishop's Hall 
Manor, to Sir Thomas Barker, who sold the St. John's estate to Thomas 
Knapp, of Ipswich, and it descended in moieties to his two daughters, 
Katherine and Martha. John Arnold acquired one moiety by marriage 
with Katherine, one of the daughters, and purchased the other moiety 
from Robert Knowlys, of Watton, who had married Martha, the other 
daughter of Thomas Knapp. 

In 1693 Nicholas Bacon was lord, and in 1707 Sir Samuel Barnardiston. 

Amongst the Exchequer Depositions of 1702 will be found proceedings 
relating to this manor and farm, stated to be " St. Johns al. Joans." The 
proceedings were as to King's taxes, arrears of quit rents, &c., and were by 
the Attorney-General at the relation of Sir Samuel Barnardiston, Bart., 
against the Right Honble. the Lady Katharine Bacon and others. 

The Manor of Battisford-cum-Badley, otherwise St. John's in Battis- 
ford, with the rights, royalties, and appurtenances, together with a farm, 
&c., were offered for sale by auction at the Golden Lion, Ipswich, 7th Nov. 

1795 •' ' ' 

In 1847 William Matthew Raikes was lord; in 1855 William Raikes; in 
1879 Frederick Hayward, who died 13th April, 1879, when the manor 
passed under his will dated 14th July, 1877, i^ ^885 being vested in 
John Hayward. It was sold by auction at Stowmarket, 30th May, 1907. 

The manor house, now occupied as a farm house, is said to have been 
built out of the materials of the Commandry. It is surrounded by a moat, 
and on one of the chimneys is a carving in stone of the head of St. John the 
Baptist on a charger. Among the quarterings formerly in the windows 
of the parlour of the manor house were those of Knapp, impaling Barker, 
and in one of the passage windows the same impaling Blois.^ 

' C.P. i. 263. ^Genilemens Magazine, March, 1843, p. 326. 

'Ipswich Journal, 24tli Oct. 1795. 



254 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

Arms of Knapp : Or, in chief, three close helmets ; in base, a lion 
passant. Sable. 

MiLDiNG Hall Manor. 

Nothing seems to be known of this manor further than that it belonged 
to Sir James Hobart, who died seised of it in 15 16, when it passed to his 
son and heir, Sir Walter Hobart." 



'See Manor of Oulton, in Lothingland Hundred. 




BAYLHAM. 255 

BAYLHAM. 

I HERE were four manors in Baylham in Saxon times. One 
was held by Munding, a freeman under commendation 
to the Abbot of Ely in Edward the Confessor's day, with a 
carucate of land. There were in this manor a ploughteam, 
2 acres of meadow, the third part of a mill, and the third part 
of another mill, half a church with 12 acres, i rouncy, 2 beasts, 
20 hogs, and 20 sheep, all valued at 30s. By the time 

of the Norman Survey the value had doubled, and there were 2 rouncies, 

8 beasts, 40 hogs, and 105 sheep. 

A second manor was held by Manston, a freeman also under commenda- 
tion from the Abbot of Ely, with 60 acres of land in the Confessor's time, 
and it contained half a ploughteam, an acre of meadow, and the sixth part of 
a mill, being in Saxon times and later valued at 20s., but at the time of 
the Survey somewhat strangely at ids. only. 

A third manor was held in the Confessor's time by Ulric, a freeman 
under commendation to Edric, with 60 acres and half a ploughtearn, one 
acre of land, and the sixth part of a mill. It was valued at 20s., but like 
the last had decreased in value by the time of the Norman Survey to los., 
and there was no part even of a ploughteam remaining. Of tlus manor 
the King and the Earl had the soc, and all three manors were held by 
William de Burnolville under Roger Bigot as tenant in chief at the time of 
Domesday Survey. 

William de Burnolville also held under Roger Bigot here 20 freemen 
with 92 acres, none of whom were under commendation to Roger's predeces- 
sor. There had been 4 ploughteams belonging to this holding, but at the 
time of the Survey there were but two. The earlier value was 40s., the later 
20s. The Survey adds, It " {what is not clear) is a league long and 8 
quarantenes broad, and pays in a gelt T.$d." The King and the Earl had 
the soc also of this. 

The fourth manor was held m the Confessor's day by Wistric, a freeman, 
also under commendation to the Abbot of Ely, with 120 acres of land. There 
were 7 bordars, i ploughteam in demesne, i belonging to the men, 4 acres 
of meadow, i rouncy, 2 beasts and 7 sheep, and the value was 20s. By the 
time of the Norman Survey the value had increased to 35s., and greater 
prosperity no doubt reigned, for there was a mill, 3 more beasts, and 23 
more sheep. The King and the Earl had the soc, and the manor was held 
by Ulmar under Roger Bigot. 

Roger Bigot held here 6 freemen with 19^ acres, valued at $s. 
Over them Wistric had only the commendation. Ulmar held at the time 
of the Survey, and the King and the Earl had the soc. Here also Warenger 
held of Roger Bigot a freeman, by name Brown, who was Provost of Ipswich, 
and under commendation to the Queen. He had 17 acres. The Survey 
adds, " This lies along with Stonham, and is included in its valuation." 
The King and the Earl had the soc. The last of Roger Bigot's holdings was 
of 3 freemen. Over one called Ulbold, Roger's predecessor, namely. Brown, 
had commendation, and over two he had, that is to say, Leston had 
nothing ; but the predecessor of Ranulf the little piper had the commenda- 
tion. AU together they had 12 acres, valued at 2s. This Garengerheld 
of Roger Bigot, and the King and the Earl had the soc' 

'Dom. vi. 3366. 337, 3376. 



256 



THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 



Amongst the invasions upon the King's rights entered in the Domesday 
Survey is that in this place in the Confessor's time, and as long as she lived, 
Queen Edith held a church with 12 acres, which subsequently WilUam de 
Burnolville held. At the time of the Survey it was in the King's hand, and 
was valued at 2s. Of this the record says he, whoever he may be, gave 
security, Turstin, son of Guido, being his bail.' 

Baylham Manor. 

The ancient family of Burnolville, or Burnaville, the original lords of 
three of the Domesday Manors, was seated at Levington, in Colneis Hundred, 
and in the time of Edw. HI. failed of male issue. 

WilUam de Burnaville, lord in the time of Hen. HI., was the son of 
Nicholas de Burnaville. He was succeeded by his son and heir. Sir Geoffrey, 
about 1270, and he by his son, Robert de Burnaville, who died in the early 
part of the following reign, and was succeeded by his son and heir, John de 
Burnaville, who was living in 131 5. He was succeeded by his son and heir. 
Sir Wilham de Burnaville, who left an only daughter Margaret, married to 
William de Weyland, and their son, John Weyland, left a daughter and 
coheir Alice, married to John Andrews, who held the manor in her right. 
Their son and heir, John Andrews, married EHzabeth, daughter and coheir 
of John Stratton,'' and died about 1456, leaving two daughters and coheirs, 
Elizabeth, married to Thomas Windsor, of Stanewell, co. Middlesex, and 
Anne, the 2nd wife of Lord Chief Justice Sulyard, and the manor passed to 
Thomas Windsor. 

Thomas Windsor by his will, which is dated 13th August, 1479, directed 
his body to be buried in the north side of the" quer of the church of our Lady 
of Stanwell afor the ymage of our Lady wher the sepultur of our Lord 
stondith. Whereupon I will ther be made a playn tombe of marble of a 
competent height, to thentent that y t may ber the blessid body of our Lord, 
and the sepulture at the tyme of Estre, to stond upon the same, and with 
myne Armes and a Scriptur convenient to be set about the same tombe 
by thadvice of myne executors and overseers underwretyn." 

His will also is that Elizabeth his wife, or Andrews his son, or 
who shall be his next heir after his decease, ordain and keep solemnly his 
obiit by note (the day and time of year he shaU happen to decease on) with 
vi. priests and three clerks in the said Church of Stanwell yearly, during the 
space of forty years next after his decease to pray for his soul, his father's 
and mother's souls, John Andrews and Elizabeth, his wife's sisters, and the 



' Dom. ii. 4486. 

'Her will is given in full in Brydges's 
Collins, vol. iii. 656. It is dated 
1474. She leaves " to Anne Suliard, 
my daughter's daughter, a girdle 
of green, harnesed with silver. 
Item, I bequeath to Bridget Wynde- 
sore, my daughter Elizabeth's 
daughter, my white bed, with all the 
hangings. . . . Item, I bequeath to 
Elizabeth Wyndesore and AUice 
Wyndesore, my daughter's 
daughters, two pieces of silver, with 
coverings and 15 spoons of silver. 
Item, I bequeath to my daughter 
Elizabeth a powder box of silver. 
Item, I will that 10 pair of sheets 



of the best be divided between my 
two daughters, &c." And by a 
codicil she bequeaths her two 
coverlids, one of cotton, the other 
of silk, the one to the Church of 
Bailham, the other to the Church 
of Stoke, and to remain in the 
Manor of Bailham, and adds: "I 
will that the new great brass pot 
remain in the said Manor of Bailham, 
to the intent that when the 
brethren of the guild of the church 
of Darmesdon make their dinner 
they do occupy the same pot for the 
time, and do deliver it again in 
the said manor of Bailham." 



BAYLHAM. 



^57 



soul of Dame AUice Wiche, his friends' souls and all Christian souls. He 
further provides that Elizabeth his wife should have the rule and oversight 
of his lordship and Manor of Bailham during the non-age of William 
Windsor, his son, if God fortune she lives so long after his decease. And 
if she die that John Catesby, serjeant at law, and John Holgrave and his 
executors have the rule of the said manor, praying them to be assisting to 
his said son William therein. 

Thomas Windsor, the testator, died in 1485, and his will was proved 
15th Feb. 1485, by his widow Elizabeth, who afterwards married Sir Robert 
Litton, Knt. Thomas's son William died an infant, and the manor passed 
to Thomas's eldest surviving son and heir, Sir Andrews Windsor, who was 
made one of the Knights of the Bath in the Tower of London, 23rd June, 
1509, on the coronation of Hen. VIIL He was created a Knight Banneret 
for his valour at the Battle of Spurs in 1513, and summoned to Parliament 
in 1529 as Baron Windsor, of Bradenham, in Bucks. This was the parliament 
which reduced the lesser monasteries, and paved the way for the surrender 
of the rest. In 1544 he was keeper of the King's great wardrobe. 




Baylham Hall (Back View). 

The arbitrary conduct of bluff Henry is well displayed in the case of this 
unfortunate nobleman and his family estate of Stanwell. The information 
is given by Sir William Dugdale, who had it from Thomas, Lord Windsor, 
viz. : " That after the dissolution of the greater monasteries in 31 Hen. VIIL 
the King being informed by Cromwell and others who had been his chiefest 
agents in the work that the most likely means to secure them from ever 
returning again to those uses, would be to dispose of most of them into 
the hands of the nobility and gentry, by free gift, easy purchases, or 
advantageous exchanges, the project so wrought with the King as he soon 
assented to put it in practice, and in order thereunto thought fit (among 
others) to engage this Andrews, Lord Windsor, to be a partaker. To 
which end, in 34 Hen. VIIL, he sent him a message that he would dine 
with him at Stanwell on a certain day, and accordingly came where he 
was magnificently entertained. Whereupon the King told him, he liked that 
place so well that he was resolved to have it, yet not without a more bene- 
ficial exchange. And the Lord Windsor answering, he hoped his Highness 

Ji 



258 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

was not in earnest, it having been the seat of his ancestors for many ages, 
and humbly begging he would not take it from him, the King with a stern 
countenance replied, ' It must be,' commanding him on his allegiance to go 
speedily to his attorney-general, who would more fully acquaint him with 
his reasons for it. Being therefore afraid of his displeasure, he accordingly 
repaired to the attorney-general, who showed him a draught, ready made, 
of an exchange of his lordship and Manor of Stanwell with its appur- 
tenances lying, as the patent sets forth, in the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, 
Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Southampton (by which the greatness 
of it may in some sort be discerned) in lieu of Bordsley Abby with the lands 
and appurtenances thereunto belonging in Worcestershire. Whereof 
being constrained to accept of this exchange, he was commanded to quit 
Stanwell, though he had then laid in his Christmas provisions for the keeping 
of his wonted hospitality there. All which he left in the house, saying, 
' They should not find it bare Stanwell.' Yet the King, in recompence, 
made him keeper of his great wardrobe, as afore-mentioned." 

He married Elizabeth, daughter of John and sister and coheir of Edward 
Blount, 2nd Lord Mountjoy, and made his will dated the 26th March, 1543, 
and proved 31st July, 1543.' His eldest son George, married Ursula, 
daughter of Sir George Vere, Knt., and sister and coheir of John Vere, 14th 
Earl of Oxford, but died without leaving issue by her in his father's lifetime, 
on whose death the manor passed to his 2nd son, but heir, WilUam, 2nd 
Lord Windsor. In 1533 he was made one of the Knights of the Bath before 
the coronation of Queen Anne Boleyn, and on the decease of the King was 
one of the 12 peers, chief mourners, who 8th Aug. 1553, attended his funeral 
at Westminster. On ist Oct. 1553, at the coronation of Queen Mary, he 
served the office of Lord Panterer of England, and had in his fee a " salt 
of gold and crystal." He married twice, ist Margaret, daughter and heir 
of William Sambourne, of Southcote, co. Berks, and 2ndly Elizabeth, 
2nd daughter and coheir of Peter Coudray, of Harrierd, co. Southampton, 
widow of Richard Paulet. His will is dated loth August, 1558, and it was 
proved loth Dec. 1558, he having died the 20th Aug. following the date 
of his will. 

A fine was levied of the manor and also of the advowson just before 
his death (in 1558) by Sir Edward Waldegrave and others against this 
William, 2nd Lord Windsor,'' who was succeeded by his 5th son and heir, 
Edward, 3rd Lord Windsor. He was made one of the Knights of the Carpet 
2nd Oct. 1553, the day of Queen Mary's coronation. In 1566 Queen Eliza- 
beth, visiting Oxford on her return, honoured this Lord Windsor with a 
visit at Bradenham, where she was highly entertained. 

He married Catharine, daughter of John Vere, Earl of Oxford, and of 
Dorothy, his wife, daughter of Ralph Nevile, Earl of Westmoreland, and 
died 24th Jan. 1574-5, when the manor passed to his son and heir, Frederick, 
4th Lord Windsor. Segar in his " Discourse on Honour " (p. 196) gives 
an account of a royal combat fought on foot before the Queen, ist Jan. 1581, 
when the brother of the French King, the Earl of Sussex, the Earl of 
Leicester, the Count St. Algnon, Mons. Chamoullon, and Mons. Backquevile 
were challengers ; and the defenders were this Lord Windsor, with his 
brother Henry Windsor, the Lord Thomas Howard, the Lord Darcy, the 
Lord Sheffield, Sir Thomas Cecil, and others. He died 24th Dec. 1585. 

'A copy is given Brydges's Collins, vol. iii. ^Fine, Hil. 5 Mary I. 
p. 667. 



BAYLHAM. 259 

His will is dated 2nd Dec. 1585, and it was proved 22nd Dec. the same year. 
As he died without issue the manor passed to his brother and heir, Henry, 5th 
Lord Windsor. He married Anne, daughter and coheir of Thomas Rivett, 
of Chippenham, co. Camb., Knt., by Griselda his wife, daughter of Lord 
William Paget, Baron of Beaudesert. A fine was levied of this manor 
and that of Bradwell against him and others by Robert Cutler and others 
in 1601.' 

The igth Feb. 1601, he was one of the peers on the trials of the Earls 
of Essex and Southampton, and died 6th April, 1605,^ when the manor passed 
to his son and heir, Thomas, 6th Lord Windsor. There is a curious monu- 
ment in the Church of Tarbick to the memory of the 5th lord, with his 
effigies lying at full length, under a canopy supported by pillars ; on 
three of which are the figures of Charity, Wisdom, and Temperance.^ 

Thomas, 6th Lord Windsor, married Catherine, daughter of Edward, 
Earl of Worcester, but had no issue. 

In or shortly before 1626, his trustees, Nicholas Barnesley, of Bordesley, 
Thomas Umfrevill, of London, and John Ranye, of London, while Lord 
Windsor was abroad, sold the manor to John Acton, of Ipswich, and by a 
deed dated 30th Nov. 2 Charles I. [1626] the sale was confirmed by Thomas, 
Lord W^indsor." The Acton family was of long standing in the county, 
seated first at Ipswich, and subsequently at Bramford. 

John Acton, the purchaser of this manor, was the son of William Acton, 
a clothier and portman of Ipswich, and treasurer of that place in 1596, 
who died 29th Nov. 1616, and was interred in the Church of St. Mary 
Elms, Ipswich, where a handsome monument in the chancel stiU remains 
to his memory.^ 

The inscription is : — 

" Memoriae Gulielmi Acton viri justifici timentis Deum, suis 

semper benefici, prsestantisque multas eleemosynas, 

que obiit Novem. 29, 1616. iEtatis 76, bonum illud 

certamen decertavit, cursum consummavit, 

et fidem servavit ; vos lectores idem agite, 

sagite (sic). Parentavit Johannes Acton pietatis ergo." 

John was High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1630-1.® He married twice, ist 
Alice, daughter of William Blois, and 2ndly Ellen, daughter of John Rany, 
and died in 1662,^ when the manor passed to his son and heir, John Acton, 
who was admitted to Gray's Inn, 17th Nov. 1637, ^^'^ died in 1663,^ when 
the manor passed to his son and heir, John Acton, who also like his grand- 
father, married twice, ist Isabel, daughter of J. Buxton, and 2ndly Elizabeth, 
daughter of J. Lamb. He died in 1695, when the manor passed to his son 
and heir Jolui Acton, who died unmarried in 1703, when the manor passed 
to his brother and heir, Wilham Acton. He was M.P. for the borough of 
Orford in 1722 and 1727, and High Sheriff for the County in 1739. He died 
without issue in 1743, and was succeeded by his brother and heir, Nathaniel 
Acton. He married ist Mary Rous, 2ndly Susan Gibson, and 3rdly, 

' Fine, Mich. 43-44 Eliz. ^ See Fuller's Worthies, ii. 349 (Clarke's 
^I.P.M., Bury St. Edmunds, loth Sept. Ipswich, 196; Add. MSS. Jermyn), 

1605. 8201 (Davy) 19, 114 (Batley), 25, 

3 Inscription given Brydges's Collins, vol. 335, F. 43, Harl. 6071, F. 143. 

iii. p. 681. 7 Will 2nd Oct. 1661, proved 21st May, 
♦Harl. 112 E. 51. 1662. 

'Will 20th Nov. 1616, proved 12th Feb. ^ Will 4th Aug. 1662, proved 5th Aug. 1663. 

16 17. 



26o THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

Elizabeth, elder daughter of John Fowle, of Broome in Norfolk, and died 
20th Jan. 1745, aged 61, leaving an only son and heir, Nathaniel Acton, of 
Bramford Hall. By deed dated 23rd Jan. 1748, Nathaniel Acton cut off 
the entail in 6 manors — Bramford, Norman's with Beverlies, Baylham, 
Clay don Hall, Illarnes, and Spencers, m East Bergholt. In the bargain and 
sale for making a tenant to the precipe for suffering a recovery of i6th 
Jan. 1753, another manor in Cretingham was included. The resettlement 
dated 20th March, i753,hmited the manors to the use of the settlor for life, 
then to trustees to secure an annuity to the wife Caroline, then to the use 
of the 1st and other sons of Nathaniel Acton and Caroline m tail male with 
remainder to the Settlor in fee. Nathaniel Acton died in 1795. By his ist 
wife Carohne, daughter and heir of John Weare, of Bury St. Edmunds, by 
Charlotte, sister and heir of Baptist Lee, of Livermere Park, he had issue — 
I, Charlotte, who died unmarried 25th Feb. 1836, aged 83, and was buried 
at Kensington, co. Middlesex ; 2, Harriet, married to Sir William Middle- 
ton, Bart., of Crowfield Hall and Shrublands ; 3, Nathaniel Lee Acton, 
who married ist Susanna, daughter of Sir Thomas Miller, Bart., of Troyle, 
Hampshire, and 2ndly Penelope, daughter of Sir Richard Ryecroft, Bart., of 
Penshurst, Knt., and died without leaving issue ist Jan. 1836, aged 79 ; 
4, Carohne, who died unmarried, 21st Sept. 1838, aged "]"]. Nathaniel 
Acton's 2nd wife was Dorothy, daughter of Harvey Aspen of Cockfield 
Hall, and she died without issue, 7th Oct. 1805, aged 86. On the death of 
Nathaniel Lee Acton in 1836 without issue, the manor passed to his sister 
Harriet, wife of Sir William Middleton, who had been created a Baronet 
i2th May, 1804. 

From this time the descent of the manor is identical with the Manor of 
Lawshall in Babergh Hundred, which has been already given, the manor 
being now vested in James St. Vincent Saumarez, 4th Baron, who resides 
at ShrubJand Park and Livermere Park, Bury, and is the owner also of 
Brooke Hall, Ipswich. 

Amongst the Chancery Proceedings in the reign of Queen Elizabeth 
will be found an action by Peter Lyvell against WilUam Whetcroft and Alice 
his wife touching copyholds of this manor,' and also an action by Nicholas 
Thennylthorp against Thomas Lewgar to recover money due as attorney 
in several actions— -one on a bond given by Francis Jacobs on a demise 
by Sir Edward Windsor, Lord W^indsor, and I-ady Katherine his wife, to 
— Taylor, of the site of the " manor of Taston al. Taston Hall and lands in 
Baylham, Taston, Dormesden, Barkmg, Willisham, and Nettlested," which 
lease becoming vested in Jacobs he sold to defendant."" 

Arms of Burnaville : Gu., a saltier engrailed Arg. betw. 4 cinquefoils. 
Or. Of Windsor : Gules, a Saltier, Arg., betw. 12 cross crosslets, Or. 
Of Acton : Gules, a fesse, and a bordure engr. Ermine. 



' C.P. Ser. ii. B. cix 'C.P. iii. 158. 




BLAKENHAM. 261 

BLAKENHAM. 

|HE lands besides the two manors here specified in the Domes- 
day Survey were as follows : Lands in the hands of Roger 
Bigot for the King, g socmen with half a carucate of land in 
the King's soc,3 ploughteams then valued at 20s, but formerly 
at los.' Lands in the hands of Earl Ralph which Godric 
the Steward kept for the King, 5 freemen in the soc and 
commendation of the Fair Edith, with 60 acres. 

These had been added to the manor in Norton. They had 2 plough- 
teams and 2 acres of meadow less one virgate then valued at 16s. 4d., and 
formerly at 12s. 4d.'' The only other estate was a small one of Roger de 
Oburville, who held in demesne Ulwart, a freeman, with 30 acres, half a 
ploughteam, and an acre of meadow, valued at 145.^ 

Great Blakenham Manor. 

This manor was held in the Confessor's time by Aluric the Thane, and 
consisted of a carucate of land, 6 bordars, i ploughteam in demesne and 
half a ploughteam belonging to the tenants, 5 acres of meadow, 2 mills, 
I rouncy, 9 beasts, 7 hogs, and 12 sheep. Also a church with i acre 
valued at 2d. By Norman times there were 2 ploughteams in demesne, 4 
beasts, 11 hogs and 14 sheep. To this manor Hardwin added 28 freemen 
with 171 acres and i bordar. Of this land Brunard held 60 acres, and i 
ploughteam, valued at 15s. There were formerly 6 ploughteams, but latterly 
only 2, 10 acres of meadow and two third parts of a mill. 

The manor was always valued at £3, and the freemen at 45s. The 
King and the Earl had the soc over the whole, which was 5 quarantenes 
long and 5 broad, and paid in a gelt yd. The Domesday record states 
that this manor was set to farm for three years at ;fi2 each year, and an 
ounce of gold within the three years together by way of gersum, but that the 
men who thus received it to farm had all been lost in confusion. The 
Domesday tenant in chief was William de Scoies.* 

This manor was held by William Giffard, Earl of Buckingham, in the 
time of William the Second, and was given by the Earl for the foundation 
of an alien Priory of Benedictine Monks dependent in Okeburne Priory in 
Wiltshire, and was a cell to the Abbey of St. Mary at Bee, in Normandy. 

Ministers' Accounts of the manor while held by the priory, 18 Edw. IL, 
will be found in the PubUc Record Office/ and the holding by the priory 
appears from an entry on the Close Rolls in 1339.^ 

The house was suppressed in 1414, and in 1441 was granted by the 
Crown to the Provost and Fellows of Eton College.^ In 1467 we find on 
the Patent Rolls a grant in frankalmoin to William Westbury the Provost 
and the College of St. Mary, Eton by Windsor, of the priory or manor of Gt. 
Blakenham, " sometime parcel of the alien priory of Okebourne," and 7 
years later another grant in frankalmoin to the free chapel of St. George, 
Windsor, of the same manor, stated to be ' parcel of the aUen priory of 
Okebourne.' "^ 

'Dom. ii. 2816. ^ Close Rolls, 13 Edw. III. pt. ii. id. 

"^Dom. ii. 285. ''Rolls of Parliament, v. 47. 

^Dom. ii. 4046. ^'Pat. Rolls, 7 Edw. IV. pt. iii. 13. 

^Dom. ii. 352. '/&., 24 Edw. IV. pt. i. i. 
'Bundle I127, No. 4. 



262 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

Little Blakenham Manor. 

In Saxon times Lestan, under commendation to the Abbot of Ely, 
held a carucate and a half of land in Blakenham as a manor. 

It had 3 bordars, i ploughteam and a half in demesne, 5 acres of 
meadow, and was valued at 40s. In Norman times Albert held of Roger 
de Poictou and the King and the Earl had soc. The value had come 
down to 30s., and there was no ploughteam in demesne.' Here also were 
3 freemen with 6 acres and a half valued at izd., of which the King and the 
Earl had the soc. This also belonged to Roger de Poictou.^ 

Little Blakenham Manor was the lordship of Thomas de Ardern in 
1220, and we find on the Close Rolls for this year an order for seisin to be 
made of the manor to the Priory of Russelep, the same having been taken 
into the King's hands in certain contentions between it and Thomas de 
Ardern.' The manor passed on Thomas de Ardern 's death to his daughter, 
married to William Buttrey. In 1281 it was held by Robert Grelle," but 
by 1298 seems to have passed to Robert de Tybetot. He married Eva, 
daughter of Pain de Chaworth, and attended King Edw. I. to the Holy 
Land. He was made Governor of the Castle of Carmarthen and Cardigan, 
and for some time the King's Lieutenant for Wales, where he defeated Rees 
ap Meredith in a great battle, wherein 4,000 Welshmen were slain, and Rees 
himself taken prisoner and conveyed to York, where he was executed. 
Robert de Tibetot died in 1298,^ and from this time to the time of Thomas 
Wentworth, Earl of Cleveland, the manor passed in the same course as the 
Manor of Nettlestead in this Hundred. This manor is specifically men- 
tioned in the inquisition p.m. of Pain de Tibetot, who was slain in 1314/ and 
in that of Robert de Tibetot, 3rd Baron, who died in 1372'' ; also in those 
of Margaret Wentworth,^ Sir Richard Wentworth, who died 17th Oct., 
1528,' and Thomas, Lord Wentworth, who died 3rd Mar. 1550-1." 

The Earl of Cleveland survived till 25th March, 1667, but in 1643 or 
1648 had sold the manor to William Lodge, from whom it passed to the 
Milners, and in 1764 was vested in the Right Hon. Francis Vernon, Lord 
Orwell, afterwards Earl of Shipbroke, who died in 1783, when the manor 
passed to his nephew, Henry Vernon, who died in 1787, when it went to 
his brother, John Vernon, who died in 1818. Shortly afterwards the manor 
was purchased of John Vernon's executors by James Reed, of Ipswich, who 
died seised in 1831, when it passed to his widow Charlotte, who died in 

1835. 

The manor was offered for sale in June the same year in London, being 
described at "The Manor of Dunstall, otherwise Blakenham upon the Hill, 
otherwise Little Blakenham, with its appurtenances and the messuage and 
farm called Dunstall, otherwise Little Blakenham Hall farm in Little 
Blakenham and Bramford, containing 279a. or. 23p., under lease at the 
rent of £370." The quit rents and free rents payable to the manor were 
stated to amount to the annual sum of £2. os. 5i." The purchaser would 
appear to have been one John Peacock, 

In 1855 the manor belonged to the Rev. Sir Thomas Gery CuUum, 8th 
Bart., and on his death passed to his widow, Lady CuUum, who survived 

'Dom. ii. 35I&. «I.P.M., 8 Edw. II. 48. 

^/&. n.FM., 46 Edw. III. 62, 64. 

3 Close Rolls, 4 Henry III. 15 ; 9 Hen. III. « I.P.M., 18 Edw. IV. 35. 

pt. ii. II. 9I.P.M., 21 Hen. VIII. 60. 

^I.P.M., 10 Edw. I. 20. '°I.P.M., 5 Edw. VI. 54. 

5 1. P.M., 26 Edw. I. 39, Extent. '^Ipswich Journal, 9th May, 1835. 



BLAKENHAM. 263 

until 1875, when the manor passed to George Gery Milner-Gibson, 2nd son 
of the Right Hon. Thomas Milner-Gibson, of Theberton House, Saxmund- 
ham, and of Arethusa Susannah, only daughter of the said Sir Thos. Gery 
Cullum, Mr. George Gery Milner-Gibson assumed the additional surname 
of Cullum, is a D.L. and J .P., F.S.A., and was was High Sheriff for the county 
in 1888, his ancestral home being Hardwick House, near Bury St. 
Edmunds. 




264 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

BEAM FORD. 

[RAMFORD was held by King Edward the Confessor, with 
12 carucates of land. There were 40 villeins, 8 bordars, i 
serf, I ploughteam in demesne and 18 belonging to the 
tenants, 30 acres of meadow, i mill, and a church with 80 
acres of free land, and i ploughteam. There were also 10 
hogs and 30 sheep. By the time of the Domesday Survey 
there was but half a ploughteam in demesne, and the hogs 
were 12. The value in Saxon times is blank, but at the time of the Survey 
it was 15 pounds by weight. The length of the manor was one league and the 
breadth a league, and it was included amongst the lands of William the 
Conqueror, which were placed in the keeping of Roger Bigot.' 

Amongst the lands of Stigand, which William de Noers kept in hand 
for the King, was a manor which in the Confessor's day had been held by 
the Archbishop. It consisted of 12 carucates of land. In this large 
manor there were 28 villeins and 7 bordars, in Saxon times having 4 serfs 
and 13 ploughteams belonging to the tenants, but at the time of the Survey 
having 2 serfs and 10 ploughteams of the tenants only. There were always 
3 ploughteams in demesne, 22 acres of meadow, i mill, and a church having 
30 acres of free land ; also 6 rouncies, 24 beasts, 20 hogs, and 90 sheep. At 
the time of the Survey the value was 22 pounds by weight, having risen 
from 10 pounds. It was i league in length and 10 quarantenes in breadth, and 
paid in a gelt 13 J^. There were also in the same holding 3 socmen, with gj 
acres, formerly having i ploughteam, but at the time of the Survey a team 
of 2 oxen only. It was included in the valuation above and Stigand had 
the soc and sac. 

In the same holding was another manor formerly held by a freeman 
Brun by commendation. It consisted of 30 acres, and at the time of the 
Survey had 2 villeins and 2 bordars and half a ploughteam, and was worth 
5s. These had in Saxon times been a full ploughteam. This also was 
mcluded in the above valuation. The Survey adds, " Harold had soc in 
Bergholt, and this was added in the time of Bishop Arfast.'" 

Lewin the Thane also in King Edward's time held i carucate and 40 
acres as a manor, which at the time of the Domesday Survey was held by 
Robert of Walter the Deacon. There were 9 bordars, 2 serfs, formerly 2 
ploughteams in demesne and 2 belonging to the tenants, but at the time of 
the Survey only i belonging to each, 5 acres of meadow, and in Saxon times, 
20 hogs and 20 sheep, which had by Domesday times become 10 hogs and 15 
sheep. The value in Saxon times was 40s., but at the time of the Survey 
30S., and Robert then held of Walter the Deacon, the King and the Earl 
having the soc.^ 

Two places mentioned in the Domesday Survey as in the Hundred of 
Bosmere and Claydon were probably in Bramf ord— Fachedon or Faukedon 
al. Fakeden ; and Langheden, or Langdon al. Langston. 

In Fachedon Richard, son of Earl Gislebert, a freeman under Earl 
Algar, held 30 acres in the Confessor's time, and i ploughteam, valued at 
55. The King and the Earl had the soc, and at the time of the Survey 
Ulmar held of Richard.* In this place too amongst the land of the 
Vavasours were three freemen in the King's soc, holding 20 acres and 
I ploughteam, valued at 5s.' 



'Dom. ii. 281. "Dom. ii. 394. 

'Dom. ii. 289. 5Dom. ii. 446. 



^Dom. ii. 4276. 



BRAMFORD. 



265 



In Langedene or Langheden al. Langdon there were 5 holdings men- 
tioned in the Survey. Amongst the lands of Earl Ralph held by Godric 
the Steward in hand for the King were 3 freemen with 72 acres and i plough- 
team and a half and 3 acres of meadow, valued at 12s. ^d.' Amongst the 
lands of Roger Bigot, Garenger held of him what a freeman, Aluric, under 
commendation to Broun, Bigot's predecessor, had held, namely, 10 acres 
and 2 oxen valued at 2s., of which the King and the Earl had the soc.'' 
Amongst the lands of Roger de Poictou we find Algar, a freeman, with 3 
acres, valued at bd. ; and Ghiny, another freeman, with i^ acres valued, at 
2>d., of which the King and the Earl had the soc' Amongst the lands of 
Roger de Oburville we find a freeman Ulbolt holding 24 acres as a manor 
and 1 1 acres of meadow, and in every third year the fourth part of the profits 
of a mill, the whole valued at 5s. 8i.* And finally amongst the lands of 
Roger de Rheims or Re5nTies we meet with Roger's daughter holding a 
freeman with 9 acres valued at 18^.' 

Later there were seven separate manors in Bramford, Bramford or 
Carlton Manor, Lovetofts, Norman's or Beverties, Overtye, Frickets, 
Wey lands, and Kentons. 

Bramford or Carlton Manor. 

This was the manor held by Stigand of King Edward the Confessor, 
and was in the early part of the 13th century vested in Robert de 
Rheims, who died about 1240, when the manor passed to his widow 
Sarah, and later to his son or brother Alexander de Rheims. Before 
the close of the thirteenth century it vested in Robert de Tibetot 
or Tiptoft, son of Henry de Tibetot, ancestor of the Worcester family, and 
he obtained a grant of free warren in 1294 here.^ 

From this time to the death of Robert de Tibetot, 3rd Baron, in 1372, 
the manor passed in the same course at the Manor of Nettlestead, in this 
Hundred. It is specifically mentioned in the inquisition p.m. of Robert de 
Tibetot who died in 1298,'' and of his son. Pain de Tibetot, who was slain 
in 1314.^ 

There had been a settlement of the manor in 1312, which had been 
carried into effect by a fine levied this year between the said Pain de Tibetot 
and Agnes his wife against Roger de Wortham, parson of Arkesey Church 
and John Lucas, parson of Nettlestead,^ and on the Close Rolls in 13 14 we 
find an order to the Escheator not to meddle with lands in Bramford 
Manor, which Pain de Tibetot and Agnes his wife held by feoffment from Roger 
de Wortham and John Lucas. '° Agnes de Tibetot died in 1329." 

Bramford Hall seems later to have passed into the Acton family, who 
since the early part of the 17th century have had their seat at Bramford 
Hall. John Acton was High Sheriff for the county in 1631. He erected 
the HaU, and was the son of William Acton, a wealthy clothier and portman 
of Ipswich, who died in 1616. From John Acton to the time of Sir George 
Nathaniel Broke Middleton, Bart., who died in 1887, the manor passed in 
the same course as the Manor of Baylham in this Hundred, and Lawshall 



'Dom. ii. 283. 

'Dom. ii. 338. 

^Dom. ii. 352. 

+ 00111. ii. 404&. 

5 Dom. ii. 422&. 

''Chart. Rolls, 22 Edw. I. 22. 

7I.P.M., 26 Edw. I. 39, Extent. 

K I 



^I.P.M. of him and Agnes his wife, 
daughter of William de Ros, of 
Hamlake 8 Edw. II. 48. 

9 Feet of Fines, 6 Edw. II. 8. 

"Close Rolls, 8 Edw. II. 34. 

"I. P.M., 2 Edw. III. 42. 



266 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

Manor, in Babergh Hundred. It is now vested in Lady Loraine, of Markyate, 
Dunstable. 

Bramford Hall is a fine stucco-faced edifice on rising ground, and stand- 
ing in the midst of a park of about 300 acres. It is now in the occupation 
of Rear- Admiral Sir Lambton Loraine, Bart., J. P. 

The Bramford Hall Manor had a pecuHar custom, the tenants holding 
from the lord by a lease granted for 21 years and renewable from time to time 
upon a fine, and upon the death of a tenant or an alienation the new 
tenant was admitted to the residue of the term unexpired so that the lord 
has an additional profit from the land. Another custom of the manor 
was alleged in a case before the courts as early as 1241. Sarah, widow of 
Robert de Reimes, claimed against Alexander de Reimes and others certain 
lands in Bramford as her dower. Defendants alleging that she is dowered 
of the whole of the lands of her late husband in Bramford, plaintiff alleges 
the custom of the Manor of Bramford to be that the widow shall have during 
life all the lands of her husband as free bench without prejudice to full 
dower out of lands outside the said manor. An inquiry was ordered as to 
the alleged custom.' 

Manor of Lovetot. 

We find on the Close Rolls in 1223 an Order that Bramford Manor, 
which is possibly the Manor of Lovetot in Bramford, taken into the King's 
hands on the death of Radulf, Bishop of York, be restored."" And again 
in 1227 an order that the manor, which had been taken into the King's 
hands on the death of the Bishop of Rochester, be granted to John Launcin- 
ton, brother of the Bishop.^ A little later, in 1247, we find a grant of the 
manor to the Priory of Ely," and it passed subsequently to the Bishop of 
Ely.' 

Though it is possible this manor is the one referred to in the above 
extracts, we are rather inclined to think that the Manors of Norman and 
Weylands are those indicated. 

The manor was in the time of Edw. I. held by John de Lovetot, who 
had a grant of free warren here in 1277.^ John de Lovetot died in 1295, 
when the manor passed to his son, John de Lovetot. It shortly afterwards 
passed to John de Tibetot, 2nd Baron Tibetot, who then held the main 
manor, and he settled this manor by fine m 1365, and died m 1367, and the 
descent from the time of the settlement to i486, the first year of Hen. VII., 
is shown in an inquisition held on the death of Edward, son and heir of 
John, Earl of Worcester, who died under age and without issue, 12th Aug. 
i486. 

His father, John, Earl of Worcester, had been executed in 1470.^ 
The inquisition shows that by fine in 1365* the manor was limited to 
Sir John Tybetot, 2nd Baron, who was the son of Pain de Tibetot, ist 
Baron Tibetot, who had as before mentioned the main manor' and Elizabeth 
his wife, and their heirs male, with remainder to the right heirs of John. 

It descended to Edward as son of John, son of Sir John, son of Sir Pain, 
son of the said Sir John Tibetot and Elizabeth, who seems to have been a 

'Abbr. of PI. 25 Hen. III. Easter, 6. in the Cambridge Univ. Libr. D, 

"^ Close Rolls. 7 Hen. HI. pt. i. 3. d. viii. 24. 

3 Close Rolls, II Hen. HI. 23, 21. « Chart Rolls, 5 Edw. I. 12. 

^^31 Hen. HI. Add. 5829. H.P.M., 9 and 10 Edw. IV. 53. 

5 A survey of the manor when belonging ^Feet of Fines, 39 Edw. III. 8. 

to the Bishop of Ely will be found ^See Nettles tead Manor, in this Hundred. 



BRAMFORD. 267 

2nd wife. There being no ma]e issue, the manor descended to Sir John 
Scrope, Lord le Scrope, John Scrope, andSir Henry Wentworth, viz., to Sir 
John, Lord le Scrope, as son of Henry, son of Richard, son of Margaret, one 
of the daughters and heirs of Sir Robert Tibetot, son and heir of the said 
Sir John Tibetot; to John Scrope, as son of Stephen, son of MiUicent, another 
such daughter and heir and to Sir Henry Wentworth as son of PhiHp, son 
of Margery, daughter of EHzabeth, the third of such heirs. By inquisition 
p.m. cf Edward, son and heir of John, Earl of Worcester, who died under 
age without issue, 12th Aug. i Hen. VIL, it was found that his cousins and 
heirs were his father's sisters Philippa, Lady de Ros, and Lady Joan, 
Inglesthorpe and Edward Dudley, son and heir of Joyce and of John, Lord 
Dudley, another of such sisters.' 

Sir Hemy Wentworth seems to have had the whole of this manor and 
on his death it passed in the same course as the Manor of Nettlestead, 
in this Hundred, to the time of Thomas, Lord Wentworth, and from him 
to his son and heir Henry, 3rd Lord Wentworth, who died May, 1593. 

The manor then seems to have passed to the Alston family, but 
apparently not to those members of it mentioned by Page in his History. 
It was held of the Actons' as of the main manor. Peter Alston held 
shortly after the death of Henry, 3rd Lord Wentworth, and dying the 3rd 
April, 1628," was succeeded by his son and heir, Peter Alston. On his 
death the manor passed to his brother, Edward Alston,^ who held his first 
court 3rd Jan. 1632-3. The next lord we find named is John Burrough, 
who held a first court for the manor, 26th July, 1700, and in 1718 we find 
it vested in Richard Philipps, who 18th Jan. of this year held his first court. 
From him in 17 19 the lordship passed to his son and heir, Richard Philipps, 
of Lincoln's Inn, who devised the same by will in 1747 to George Thomas, 
of Kesgrave, who died in 1770, when the manor passed to his son and heir 
George Thomas, who, dying in 1788, it devolved on his son and heir, George 
Thomas, of Woodbridge.^ This is the course of descent as given in the 
Davy MSS., but it seems strange that in 1855 we find the manor still in the 
Alston family, for it was then held by the Rev. Edward Constable Alston, of 
Framlingham. In 1885 it was held by Mr. Tacon, of Eye, in 1896 in 
Richard Tacon, of the same place, and in 1906 in Mr. Andrew Sandbach, 
of Ipswich, who has since died, and the same now belongs to his representa- 
tives. 

The manor house known as Love toft's Hall is a farmhouse on or 
near the site of the ancient seat of the Tibetots. A rental of the manor 
in 1767 is given in the Davy MSS.^ The total amount is ;^I2. 9s. lo^d. 

Arms of Thomas : Argent, a chevron. Sable betw. 3 Cornish choughs, 
ppr. 

Manor of Norman's with Beverlies. 

This manor was held by Anna Bourchier, who died 25th July, 1520,® 
when it passed to Andrew Sulyard, son of John Sulyard, son and heir of the 
said Anna. It was then held of the Bishop of Ely. It passed subsequently 
to W. Borlas, and was acquired from him by William Acton in 1596.^ It is 

' Inquis. I Hen. VII. 21. '*See Brockley Hall Manor, in Tbingoe 

-I. P.M. at Ipswich, 19th Sept. 1628. Hundred. 

3 Edward's brother Thomas must have * Add MSS. 19084, p. 127. 
previously died. «I.P.M., 12 Hen. VIII. 14. 

''Fine, Mich. 38-39 Eliz. 



268 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

included in a fine levied in 1535 by Sir Andrew Wyndesore, Lord Windsor^ 
and others against Sir Philip Bothe.' 

William Acton died in 1616, from which time the devolution has been 
the same as that of the main Manor of Bramford^ and it is now vested in 
Lady Loraine, of Markyate, Dunstable. 

Manor of Overtye. 

This manor belonged to Sir John de Tibetot, 2nd Baron, who died 
in 1367, and from this time to the time of Thomas, 4th Lord Wentworth, 
created Earl of Cleveland in 1626, it passed in the same course as the Manor 
of Nettlestead, in this Hundred. The manor is specifically mentioned in 
the inquisition p.m. of Thomas, Lord Wentworth, who died 3rd March, 
1550.' 

In the lifetime of Thomas, Earl of Cleveland, we find the manor vested 
in Joseph Alston, at whose death in 1625 it passed to his brother and heir. 

Manor of Fricketts. 

All we learn of this manor is that it was vested in W. Borlas, and was 
acquired from him in 1596 by William Acton, who died seised of it in 1616, 
when it passed in the same course as the main manor. 

Manor of Weyland's. 

This appears to have been held by Thomas de Weyland in 1277, and 
as late as 1404 by Margaret Wayland, at least she had then lands in Bram- 
ford. William Bo the seems to have married one of the daughters and 
co-heirs of a Weyland, and to have acquired in her right a moiety of the 
manor. On William Bothe's death this moiety passed to his son and 
heir, Richard Bothe, who died seised of the same in 1477,^ when it passed 
to his grandson Philip Bothe, son of William Bothe, son of Richard. 

It is said that the manor later passed with the Manor of Normans to 
Anna Bourchier, who died seised of it 25th July, 1520,* when it passed to 
Andrew Sulyard, as next heir, being the son of John Sulyard, but it is 
included in a fi.ne levied in 1535 by Sir Andrew Wyndesore, Lord Windsor, 
and others, against Sir Philip Bothe.^ A manor called " Waylands " 
is included in a fine in 1516, levied by Sir Richard Wentworth and others 
against Lionel Talmage and Edith his wife .* A fine of a moiety of this m anor 
was levied in 1563 by Thomas Seckford against Edward Wyndesor.' 
The manor subsequently vested in W. Borlas, and was acquired by William 
Acton of him in 1596.^ William Acton died in 1616, from which time no 
doubt the manor has passed in the same course as the last manor. 

Manor of Kenton. 

All that seems to be known of this manor is that an Arthur Rushe 
died seised of it in 1537, when it passed to his son and heir, Anthony Rushe. 

One of the manors of Bramford granted to the Priory of Ely 31st Hen. 
IIL^ seems to have passed to the Bishop of Ely, for the accounts 14 Edw. I. 

■ Fine, Trin. 27 Hen. VIII. ^pine, Trin. 27 Hen. VIII. 

^I.P.M., 5 Edw. VI. 54. 6 Fine, Mich. 8 Hen. VIII. 

^I.P.M., 17 Edw. IV. 22. 'Fine, Easter, 5 Eliz. 

+ I.P.M., 12 Hen. VIII. 14. It was then spii-^e Mi^h. 38-39 Ehz. 

held of the Bishop of Ely. ^Add. 5829. 



BRAMFORD. 269 

and 26 to 28 Edw. I., are still preserved/ and was in the hands of the bishop 
as late as 1547, and an inquisition as to what the lands of the bishop here 
were in 1336 will be found amongst the Add. MSS. in the Brit. Mus.^ 
This same manor had in 1593 passed to Francis Alborne. Also one of the 
manors of Bramford would appear to have been vested in Sir Robert Litton 
about the middle of the i6th century, for we find it mentioned in an agree- 
ment concerning special livery of the Court of Wards and Liveries in 1557, 
to Thomas Brokett and Anne his wife, one of the daughters and co-heirs 
of Sir Robert Litton deceased, in right of the said Anne. The agreement 
is dated i8th Nov. 4 and 5 Phihp and Mary [1557], and is in English and 
Latm.^ A third of the manor was included in a fine levied in 1554 by 
WiUiam Lawson and others against John Brockett and others.* Another 
third was included in a fine levied in 1558 by John Goodwyn and others 
against Thomas " Lyttyll" and others,^ and another third was included in 
a fine in 1560 by Francis Walsingham against the said Thomas " Lyttle " 
and others.^ 



'P.R.O., Bundle 1132, No. 9, 10. ■'Fine, Easter, 2 Mary 1, 

-Add. MSS. 6165. 5 Fine, Mich. 5 Mary I. 

3 Add Ch. 28954. ^Fine, Mich. 2 Eliz. 




270 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

BRICETT {GREAT). 

|N Saxon times there were two manors in Bricett. Anschill, 
a freeman under commendation to Leuric Hobbeson in the 
Confessor's time, held 60 acres as a manor, which by the time 
of the Survey was held by Fulcho of William de Otburville. 
Of the 60 acres he (William) had 40, but the whole was 
delivered to him. Appertaining to this manor were i 
bordar and i ploughteam valued at los., the King and the 
Earl having the soc. It seems that Hugh de Hosderc took away the 20 
acres not in William's possession, as both William and the Hundred alleged, 
but Hugh being a prisoner in the King's hands could give no answer to the 
allegation.' 

As to the last-mentioned 20 acres, we meet with a reference later under 
"Invasions upon the King's right," where the Great Record says: "In 
Bricett are 20 acres, which are attached to William de Othunville's manor, 
which Anschill held in King Edward's time, now a certain woman called 
Bo tilt holds them and calls Hugh de Hosderc to warrant. But he is under 
arrest by the King and cannot respond. Now these acres are in the King's 
hand, and Ulmar the provost has charge of them. Valued at 5s."^ 

William's brother, Roger de Otburville, held here a freeman Leuric, 
under commendation to Godric of Ringshall, the predecessor of William 
Otburville, and he had 10 acres, to which were formerly attached a team 
of two oxen valued at 20i., the King and the Earl having the soc. At the 
time of the Survey Gislebert held this of Roger.^ 

The other manor was held by Lefston in the Confessor's time, and 
consisted of 2 carucates and 4 acres, and at the time of the Survey was held 
by Ralph, son of Brian, of Ranulph Peverell. To the manor were attached 
in Saxon times 10 bordars, 2 serfs, 3 ploughteams in demesne, and 2 
belonging to the tenants, 6 acres of meadow, wood sufficient for 10 hogs, 
2 rouncies, 10 beasts, 30 hogs, and 80 sheep. By the time of the Survey one 
of the ploughteams of the men had disappeared, but the live stock had all 
increased considerably, the rouncies were 5, the beasts 10, the hogs 50, and 
the sheep 140. Of the land 54 acres of the demesne of Ralph, son of Brian, 
were attached to a certain church. 

There were also here held by Ranulph Peverell 4 socmen with 41 acres, 
formerly having a ploughteam and a half, but at the time of the Survey 
a team of 2 oxen only. The Norman valuation was loos., as against the 
Saxon of 60s. The King and the Earl had the soc* 

Great Bricett Manor. 

By the time of Hen. I . one manor in Great Bricett only is distinguish- 
able. This manor, which formed part of the Honor of Peverell, was about 
1096 still vested in Ralph Fitz Brian, the Domesday sub-tenant, and he and 
his wife Emma about mo for the health and redemption of their souls, 
and the souls of their children, for the safety of King Henry, for the souls 
of their friends, and foi the salvation of the people of God, erected here a 
Priory of Austin Canons, under the protection of Herbert de Losinga, 
Bishop of Norwich, and endowed it with the manor and tithes of Bricett. 

'Dom. ii. 405&. ^Dom. ii. 4056. 

^Dom. ii. 44c/;. *Dom. ii. 417. 



BRICETT (GREAT). 271 

It was a cell to the foreign monastery of Nobiliac, in the diocese of Lymoges. 
and the Duchy of Berry.' 

Brian, son of Ralph, the founder, for the good of his soul and those of his 
ancestors and successors, confirmed to the canons all the gifts of his father 
with the chapel of Losa appropriated to the priory. Later Sir Aimer 
Peche, Knt., lord of the parish, a descendant of Ralph, the founder, con- 
firmed his ancestors' gifts and augmented the revenues of the priory for 
the benefit of thesouls of Bartholomew and Edmund his children and others. 
He obtained permission of Walter, then Bishop of Norwich, to have a 
chantry in his chapel of Bricett, upon condition that the chaplain should 
inspectis sacrosantis Evengeliis^sweSiX to pay all the oblations he received in 
the chapel to the mother church, and not to admit any parishioner to 
either sacrament unless in immediate danger of death, and that Almeric 
himself in token of his submission to the mother church should repair to it 
with his family on the five holidays of Christmas, Easter, Whitsunday, 
the Assumption of the blessed Virgin, and St. Leonard's day. 

Ralph was a favourite christian name of the Fitz Brians, but the Ralph 
Fitz Brian of Domesday is probably the same as the founder of the priory 
in mo, and on his death he was succeeded by his son Brian, and he by his 
son, Ralph Fitz Brian. On the death of Ralph Fitz Brian the manor passed 
to his daughter, married to Sir Aimer de Peche. It is true that it has been 
stated that Ralph Fitz Brian had endowed the priory with the manor, but 
apparently not with all his lands, and to those retained probably appertained 
manorial rights, or indeed as the grant was before the time of Edw. I., the 
seignory might have been divided. 

Sir Aimer de Peche granted the manor to Roger Loveday (son of 
Roger), he holding under the prior and convent by the service of one knight's 
fee. Roger Loveday died in 1287,'' and was succeeded by his son and heir, 
Richard Loveday. Richard died in 1319 without issue, leaving four 
sisters his heirs, who thereupon became entitled in fourths.^ 

The four sisters were Margaret, married to Thomas Durraunt or Durrant, 
who alienated to John, son of John de Bohun, in 1324 ;* the 2nd daughter, 
Anne, married Richard Hacun, of Great Melton, in Norfolk in 1318, and they 
alienated to the Prior of Bricett in 1346.^ The fine levied strangely is 
" Prior and Canon of Bresete v. John Burdoun and Isabella his wife."^ The 
3rd daughter, Catherine, married Roger de Tichbourne,^ and they sold to 
John, son of John de Bohun, in 1346.^ The fourth sister, Alianora, also sold 
her part to John, son of John de Bohun, in 1320.' 

In the Feet of Fines this Alianora, who was deforciant to the fine levied by 
John, son of John de Bohun, is stated to be the daughter of Walter Loveday,'" 
but this is clearly a mistake. 

'A composition between the prior and 'I. P.M., 20 Edw. III. 24. 

convent of Nobiliac and the prior *Feet of Fines, 20 Edw. III. 32. 

and convent of St. Leonard in ''Davy inaccurately states that their son, 
1310 will be found amongst the Roger de Tichbourne, had this 

Bodleian Charters, Suff. 188. manor. Add. MSS. 19140. 

"■I.P.M., 15 Edw. I. 33. ^Feet of Fines, i Edw. III. i. 

^I.P.M., 12 Edw. II. 34. See Manor of ^Originalia, 12 Edw. II. 14; I.Q.D., 14 
Sproughton, in Samford Hundred. Edw. II. 76, N.R. File, 14310. 



Orig. 18 Edw. II. 25 ; I.Q.D. 18 Edw. II. " Feet of Fines, 14 Edw. II. 16. 
File 176, I. Feet of Fines, 18 
Edw. II. 29. Ralph, son of William 
Loveday, and Roger, son of Roger 
Loveday app. clam. 



272 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

John, son of John de Bohun, seems to have acquired three out of the 
four parts into which the manor had become divided, and in 1330 Thomas 
Le Archer, parson of the church of Elmsett, is said to have held one third 
part of this lordship, which he aUenated to Bricett Priory in 1331.' Davy 
makes Robert Lockwood lord in 1346. However this may be, it is 
clear that by 1350 the whole lordship was absolutely vested in Bricett 
Priory. 

The priory was suppressed with other alien houses in 1414, and 
granted by Hen. VI. in 1426 to King's College, Cambridge,^ and the Provost 
and Fellows ot that College have been lords of the manor from that day, and 
patrons of the Living. 

Arms of Loveday : Per pale, Or and Sab., an eagle displayed with two 
heads, counterchanged ; gorged with a ducal coronet, and armed of the 
first. 



'Pat. Rolls, 5 Edw. III. pt. ii. 26 ; I.Q.D., "Confirmation 1444, Rolls of Parl.v. 93 ; 
5 Edw. III. File 213, 13. I. P.M., Grant, Pat. Rolls, i Edw. IV. pt. 

8 Edw. III. {2nd Nos.) 53. iii. 23. 



BRICETT (LITTLE). 273 




BRICETT {LITTLE). 

I WO manors seem to have existed in Little Bricett, formerly 
an independent parish, but now a hamlet of Offton. One 
was held by Godwin, a freeman in King Edward's time, and 
in the time of the Great Survey was held by Anschetill 
of Roger de Rheims. 

It consisted of a carucate in the soc of the King and the 
Earl, having formerly 2 bordars, but at the time of the 
Survey 5, a church with 15 acres, a ploughteam in demesne 2 acres of 
meadow, 20 sheep, and 15 hogs, valued at 20s. 

By the time of the Survey the value had risen to 25s., and then in 
addition we find a team of two oxen belonging to the tenants. The Survey 
says: "It," possibly the manor, "was a league long and half a league broad 
and paid in a gelt 6J^."' 

The other manor was amongst the extensive grants made to Richard, 
son of Earl Gislebert. The entries relating to this in Domesday are as 
foUows : — 

Bonds, a freeman, held Bricet in King Edward's time, and Queen 
Edith had commendation only, but Richard claims it as belonging to 
Wisgar's fee. And the King and the Earl had the soc. Now Roger (holds 
it) as I carucate of land and as a manor. Always i viUein, i bordar, and 
I ploughteam in demesne. Then i ploughteam belonging to the men 
Then valued at 20s., now at 30s. This land Roger de Rheims claims as of 
the King's gift, and he was seised thereof. In the same (township) the 
said Roger de Orbec holds 2 freemen with 15 acres, valued at 30^. This 
also Roger de Rheims claims as above ; but Richard claims it as belonging 
to Wisgar's fee. In the same (township) Ranulf, the little piper, holds 4 
acres, which were attached to the aforesaid manor in King Edward's time. 
This he claims as belonging to Phin's fee."" 

Manor of Little Bricett or Talmach Hall. 

This was the holding of Godwin in Saxon times, and the lordship of 
Anschetill under Roger de Rheims in the time of the Conqueror. It was in 
1204 vested in Lord William de Fresnets or Freney, from whom it apparently 
passed to John de Wachesham, for in 1227 it was held by Hugh Talmash 
and Illaria his wife of his (John's) gift. They held the manor, which by this 
time therefore had apparently become united with the other manor in Little 
Bricett, of the Countess of Gloucester, a descendant of Richard, son of Earl 
Gislebert, the Domesday lord, by the fourth part of a knight's fee, it being 
then held as one manor of the Honor of Clare. Hugh died about 1297,^ and 
from this time to the time of Lionel ToUemache, who died in i553j the manor 
passed in the same course as the Manor of Bentley in Samford Hundred. It 

'Dom. ii. 4226. n.P.M., 25 Edw. I. i6. 

''Dom. ii. 393&. 

LI 



274 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

is specifically mentioned in the inquisition p.m. of John Talmache^ who died 
in 1477.' 

Lionel Talmache in 1538 sold the manor to James Rivett/ who sold 
it to John More, Portman of Ipswich. On John More's death, the manor 
passed to his eldest daughter and coheir Anne, married to Thomas Kempe, 
of Bricett and Beccles, afterwards of Talmach Hall, the 3rd son of Robert 
Kempe, of Gissinge, co. Norfolk, by Elizabeth his 2nd wife, daughter of 
Edmond Gray. 

Thomas Kempe subsequently removed to Beccles, and sold the Bricett 
estate to Josiah Faweather, or Faywether, of Halesworth, whose 2nd wife 
was Elizabeth, daughter of the above-mentioned Thomas Kempe, and in 
1590 a fine of the manor was levied by Robert Howland against this Thomas 
Kempe. ^ About 1655 the manor was acquired by Capt. John Bright, 
Alderman of Bury. He was the eldest son of Thomas Bright, jun., and 
Margaret Beton, his 2nd wife, and was baptised at St. James', in Bury St. 
Edmunds, 12th Aug. 1593. John Bright the purchaser was a captain in 
the Parliamentary army. He probably went to reside in Little Brycet 
about 1654. 

He married Mary, daughter of William Style, of Hemingston, and died 
17th March, 1660. His will is dated 14th Jan. 1659-60, and it was proved 
in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 8th May, 1661. He was buried in 
Great Bricett Church, where near the chancel is a beautiful marble monu- 
ment, surmounted with the arms of Bright impahng those of Style and 
North, and bearing the following inscription : — 

Memorise Sacrum 

Johannis Bright de Talmach Hall 

Generosi qui obijt decimo Septimo die 

Martij anno Millesimo Sexcentesimo 

Septuagesimo ; et Marise uxoris ejus 

Filiae Gulielmi Style de Hemingston 

Generosi quae post obitum Supra-dicti 

Johannis renupsit honorab. viro 

Johanni North arm. filio 

Dudleii North Baronis de Cartleigh 

Ilia autem obijt tricesimo primo 

Augusti Anno miUesimo sexcentesimo 

Septuagesimo nono 

Hoc pietatis ergo marens posuit 

Parentibus Guhelmus Bright 

Armiger et Filius primogenitas 

1680. 

The manor passed to John's son and heir, William Bright, who, 20th 
Oct. 1653, married Sarah, daughter of Henry North, of Laxfield, son of Sir 
Henry North, of Mildenhall, Knt., younger son of Roger, 2nd Lord North, 
and died 7th Jan. 1706-7, aged So,"* when his only daughter Sarah carried 

'I. P.M., 17 Edw. IV. 19. ''Will 24th Sept. 1706, proved 30th May, 

^Fine, Hil. 31 Hen. VIII. 1707. 

' Fine, Mich. 32-33 Eliz. 



BRICETT (LITTLE). 275 

the manor into the Dawtrey family by marrying Thomas Dawtrey, of More^ 
CO. Sussex, and of Doddinghurst Place, High Sheriff of Essex in 1682.' 

Thomas Dawtrey by Sarah his wife left issue William, devisee of his 
grandfather William, and High Sheriff of Essex in 1736, who died without 
issue, and a daughter Sarah, who married Edward Luther,^ of Myles Manor, 
in Kelvedon, co. Essex, High Sheriff of Essex in 1701, and had with other 
issue Richard Luther, eventually inheritor of the Dawtrey estates. 

Richard Luther married Charlotte, daughter of Hugh Chamberlain, M.D., 
of Alderton Hall and Hinton Hall, the celebrated Court physician in the 
time of James IL and Queen Anne. Richard died at his seat. Vicars Hill, 
28th Dec. 1767, when the manor passed to his son and heir, John Luther, 
who in 1764 represented the County of Essex in Parliament, after a warm 
contest in which he expended £50,000. He married Lavinia Bennett, and 
died without issue 13th Jan. 1786, when the manor passed to his two 

' He was son of William Dawtrey and Amy, daughter of John Strutt, of Warley Place, 
CO. Essex. The descent was as follows : — 

John de Alta Ripa, of Haultney 

— de Alta Ripa 

I 
Josceline 

John de Haultrey 
2nd son 

I 
Thomas Dawtrey 

I 
John 

John 

I 
John 



Andrew Dawtrey = Alice Mill 

Edward, = Isabel, d. and h, of Sir Thomas Wood 

2nd son, 
of Petworth, co. Sussex 



Sir John, of =Jane, eld, d. of Sir Ralf 

Petworth I Shirley, Knt., of Wiston 



Sir John, Knt., =Christian, d. and coh. of Nicholas 
Sheriff of Sussex, 1547 I Moor, of Widdeford, co. Hants. 



William = Margaret, d. of William Roper, 



of Moor House, Sheriff 1506 
M.P. for Sussex 



of Eltham, co. Kent, g-d. and h. of Sir 
Thomas More, L.C. of England 



William, of Moor House = Dorothy, d. and co-h. of Rich. Stonesley, 
I Teller of the Exchequer 

Sir Henry Dawtrey=Anne, d. of Daniel Dun, of Theydon 
of Moor House I Gernon, co. Essex 

William Dawtrey 
^He was the son of Richard Luther and Rebecca, daughter of Edward Rudge, Alderman 
of London, which Richard was the son of Anthony and Jane,, daughter of Gilbert 
Armstrong, which Anthony was son of Richard Luther and Mary his wife, daughter of 
Edward Mead, of Beardon, co. Essex, which Richard was son of Thomas Luther, of 
Kelvedon Hatch, co. Essex. 



276 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

sisters and coheirs — Charlotte, married to Henry Fane, of Wormsley, M.P., 
brother to Thomas 8th Earl of Westmoreland, and Rebecca, married to John 
Taylor, M.D. 

Richard Wilson was lord in 1829 and 1847, Sir R. S. Adair in 1855, 
and Edward Bedford in 1885, from whom before 1896 the manor had passed 
to John Bedford. 

Talmach Hall now exists only as a farmhouse. The principal portion 
of the edifice, once very extensive, was taken down in the early part of the 
last century and hardly a vestige of its former importance remains. It was 
surrounded by a moat, traces of which are still observable. The Hall now 
belongs to Mr. Thomas Moore Crowe. 

Arms of Kempe : Gules, three garbs, within a bordure engrailed Or. 



CLAYDON, 



277 



CLAYDON. 




jHE only holding here mentioned in the Domesday Survey 
is under the land of the Vavasours, where it is stated that 
Alric a freeman held 6J acres in King Edward's time, 
which at the time of the Survey was held by Aluric, son of 
Rolf, a burgess of Ipswich, and valued at I4d. The 
King and the Earl had half the soc, and St. Etheldreda the 
other moiety, and Aluric held the land in pawn apparently 
without a warrant. The above was in the King's hand.' 

Roger de Poictou also held a mill here." 

Claydon Manor or Claydon Hall Manor. 

Page informs us that this manor and the advowson of the church of 
Claydon in its early descent passed, as that of Rice Hall in Akenham 
from the Le Rus (or Rupus) family to that of Breowse (or De Brewse), and on 
a division of the inheritance of Sir William de Brewse, Knt., between his two 
daughters and coheirs, it passed to Anne the eldest. This seems to be a 
mixture of truth and inaccuracy. The manor was held in the middle of 
the thirteenth century by Adam Aula de Cleiden, who died about 1274. 
His holding was half a fee of the Honor of Lancaster.^ 

In 1302 William de Claydon had a grant of free warren here,* but in 
1316 John Bacon or Bakun appears to have held a manor here. In 1330 
William de Claydon and Aleanora his wife held the manor as of the Manor 
of Netherhall, in Otley,^ and in 1350 John, son of WiUiam de Claydon, died 
seised of the same,^ when it passed to his daughter and heir Aleanora, 
married to Thomas Ardell. 

In 1395 the lordship seems to have been vested in Thomas, Duke of 
Gloucester. Power to take seisin of the manor in 1395-6 will be found 
amongst the Harl. Charters in the Brit. Museum.^ The date is 17th Jan. 
igth Rich. II., and it is given at the Castle of Plevy, being addressed to 
Walter Clopton, Thomas Hevenyngham, and John Hynkele, the Duke's 
attorneys. 

In 1414 we find it vested in Thomas de Thorp and passing under his 
will to trustees in order that it might be sold. We next find the manor 
vested in John, son and heir of Sir William Clere, of Ormesby, in Norfolk, 
by Dionysia his wife, daughter of Sir William Walingham, who had married 
Elizabeth, daughter of Philip Braunch, Knt., apparently held in right of 
his wife, for she by will dated i6th Oct. 1438, devised the lordship, with those 
of Henstead and Rothenhale, to her son Edmund Clere ,^ and dying in 1440 
he became lord. 

The eldest son of John de Clere seems to have been a Robert de Clere, 
and apparently after the death of his brother (the devisee) Edmund, Robert 
succeeded. He, Robert, died at Ormesby in August, 1446, and we find 



'Dom. ii. 4466. 
^Dom. ii. 351. 
3 Testa de NevUl, 290. 
♦Chart. Rolls, 30 Edw. I. 7. 
5I.P.M., 4Edw. III. 19. 
6I.P.M., 24 Edw. III. 80. 
7 Harl. 43 E. 21. 

sin a deed 6 Hen. VI. (1428) the "Manor 
of Claydon," with other manors, or 



rather all right in them, is released 
by Robert Sampson and Elizabeth 
his wife to John Hopton in fee, and 
the manor is included in his (John 
Hopton's) Inquis. p.m. in I479 
(I.P.M. 19 Edw. IV. 70). Of course 
it could not be the same manor, but 
possibly there may have been 
another manor in Claydonj 



278 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

his widow Elizabeth and others in 1478 receiving licence for alienation in 
mortmain to Holy Trinity, Norwich, of a rent of 5 marks from the Manor of 
Claydon, and the Manor of Therstan, in Norfolk.' 

Page mentions that by her will 13th Jan. 1492, the said Elizabeth 
gave to the Priory of Norwich an annuity of £3. 6s. 8d. issuing out of her 
manors of '' Thars ton "in Norfolk and Clay don, in Suffolk. She was a daughter 
of Thomas Owgdale or Dovedale, of Incolneston. Her two sons, William 
and Thomas, dying without issue, the manor passed to the 3rd son. Sir 
Robert Clere, Knt. He was knighted on All Saints' Eve, 1494, was Sheriff 
of Norfolk in 1501, attended Hen. VHI. at the famous interview between 
him and the French king near Guisnes in 1520, and died in 1529. By his 
ist wife, Anne Hop ton, he had William, who married Elizabeth, daughter 
of Sir John Paston, jun., and died without issue in 1501. By his 2nd wife, 
Alice Boleyn, of Bickering, he had three sons and four daughters, and the 
manor passed to his son and heir. Sir John Clere, who married Anne daughter 
of Sir Thomas Tyrrell, of Gipping. Sir John was Treasurer of the King's 
army in France in 1549. In 1557 being vice-admiral and landing on one 
of the Orkney Islands called Kirkway, he was there killed, 21st August, 1557. 
The manor, however, seems to have left the Clere family during the lifetime 
of Sir John. 

It is said that Sir William deBrewse, of Wrentham,nextheldthelordship, 
and married Isabel, daughter of Sir John Holton, Knt., and on his death 
the inheritance was divided between his two daughters and coheirs, when 
this manor fell to Amy, the eldest, married to Sir Roger Townshend, a person 
of distinction who was made Judge of the Common Pleas by King Rich. III. 
Further that when Amy Townshend died in 1553 the manor passed to 
her great-grandson. Sir Roger Townshend, as mentioned in the account of 
Akenham Manor, in this Hundred. This, however, does not appear to be 
correct, for a fine levied in 1550 would rather suggest that the manor passed 
directly from the Clere family to the Southwells this year. The fine was 
levied by Sir Robert Southwell against Sir John Clere.^ In 1588 the manor 
was sold by Sir Robert Southwell to John Aylmer, Bishop of London,^ 
from whom it passed to his son and heir Samuel. 

A fine was levied against the said Samuel Aylmer by Robert Bures and 
others in 1598.* Amongst the Chancery Proceedings of the time of Queen 
Elizabeth will be found an action by this Samuel Aylmer against his steward, 
John Holland, respecting deeds and Court Rolls of this manor and the Manor 
of Akenham.' 

Samuel Aylmer^ devised the manor to his 2nd son, Edward Aylmer, 
D.D., who was owner thereof in 1655 and patron of the living. Samuel 
Aylmer, his father, was thought to have an estate of ;fi,2oo per annum, 
most of which he gave to this son, upon which a suit was likely to have 
arisen between the sons, but the Lord Chief Justice Brampton, brother to 
the wife of Samuel Aylmer, brought his nephews to an agreement. 

Samuel Aylmer died in 1635, and was buried within the altar rails of 
the parish church at Claydon. His 2nd son, Dr. Edward Aylmer, who had this 
manor, married Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Hill, Master of Catherine HaU, 
Cambridge. Dr. Edward died in 1655 , leaving about £500 or £600 per annum 

' Pat. Rolls, 18 Edw. IV. pt. i. 15. +Fine, Mich, 40-41 Eliz. 

"Fine, Hil. 4 Edw. VI. = C-P. i. 38. 

^ Fine, Hil. 30 Eliz. ^See Akenham Manor, in this Hundred. 



CLAYDON. 279 

to his son. His estate had been reduced in the Parliamentary wars for 
taking part with King Charles, and he had to compound by paying a sum 
of £1,900. 

A petition of Elizabeth, his widow, will be found amongst the State 
Papers in 1656.' In 1764 Nathaniel Acton, of Bramford Hall, son of 
Nathaniel Acton of Bramford, held the estate, and on his decease in 1795, 
the manor passed to his only son and heir, Nathaniel Lee Acton, of Livermere 
Park, who died seised in 1836. The same year the executors of Nathaniel 
Lee Acton offered the manor for sale by auction both in April and October. 
The property was described as " The Manor of Clay don Hall, with the 
messuage and farm called Claydon Hall, containing by survey 321a. 2r. 37p. 
now occupied by Mr. Jonathan Seaman at the yearly rent of ;^420." At the 
same time was offered for sale a farm in Claydon called Mock Hall, con- 
taining 158a. 2r. i8p., then held at the rent of ;£i20.^ 

The manor was acquired by Sir William Fowle Fowle Middleton, of 
Shrubland Hall, Bart., and the same has since descended in a like course 
with the Manor of Lawshall, in Babergh Hundred, and is now vested in 
Lord de Saumarez, of Shrubland Park. 

Claydon Hall, now a farmhouse, is said to have been built on the site 
of an ancient castle ; part of the moat which surrounded the original edifice 
still remains. Davy says, "In the hall of Baker's Hall (Mock Beggars), in 
the parish of Claydon, is a lion passant painted on the wall ; and on the 
outside of the house are the initials T A (T. Aylmer), date 1621." 



'State Papers, 1656, 189. ^Ipswich Journal, 2nd April, 1836, and 

October, 1836. 




28o THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

CODDENHAM. 

[HERE were several manors here in the time of the Domesday 
Survey. Two of these were amongst the lands of Roger 
Bigot. One Garenger then held of him the land which 
Wicolf, a freeman under commendation to Toli the Sheriff, 
had in the Confessor's time, namely, 76 acres as a manor. 
In those days the particulars of the manor included a villein 
and a half, 3 bordars, 2 serfs, 2 ploughteams in demesne 
and a team of 2 oxen belonging to the tenants, 3 acres of meadow, wood 
sufficient for the support of 30 hogs, and half a miU. But it seems that 
Hardwin, Earl Ralph's brother, took the freeman away in King William's 
time. Also there was half a church with 2J acres of land always valued 
at 36s. A church with 12J acres valued at 25^., and another church with 
8 acres valued at 10^. At the time of the Survey the serfs seem to have 
disappeared, the ploughteams in demesne had come down to i, and the 
team of the men gone altogether. The wood had been felled to some extent, 
for there was but sufficient for 10 hogs, and the half miU had gone. The 
King and the Earl had the soc of this manor. 

Another manor was held by a freeman, Wailoff, under commendation 
to the Abbot of Ely, having 36 acres in the Confessor's time. Garenger 
also held this manor, which had formerly half a villein and i ploughteam, 3 
acres of meadow, and wood for 30 hogs, and was valued at 15s. By the 
time of the Survey the ploughteams had gone, and the wood left was but 
sufficient for 10 hogs. The King and the Earl had also the soc of this manor. 
Here also were 27 freemen with 75 acres. Of these 12 freemen were under 
commendation to Wicolf, Roger Bigot's predecessor in King Edward's 
time, and from the others he had nothing. This Garenger also held. There 
were formerly 3 ploughteams, but at the time of the Survey 2 only, and 
I acre of meadow. The value was i6s. in Saxon times and 20s. 6i. at the 
time of the Survey, which states that Coddenham was a league long and 8 
quarantenes broad, and paid in a gelt 2od.^ 

Three other manors in Coddenham were amongst the lands of the Bishop 
of Bayeux. One, consisting of 20 acres, was held by a freeman Almar, under 
commendation to the Abbot of Ely. There were 2 ploughteams, i bordar, 
and wood for 10 hogs in the Confessor's time, and but a team and a half 
and wood for 2 hogs at the time of the Survey. The value was 30s., and 
there was a church with 3 acres valued at 6d. 

The second manor, consisting of 60 acres, was held by 2 freemen, Aluric 
and Uluric, having i villein, 2 bordars, 2 ploughteams, 40 sheep, 2 beasts, and 
4 acres of meadow, with wood formerly sufficient for 30 hogs, but at the time 
of the Survey for 11 hogs only. The value in Saxon times was 30s., and 
in Norman days 40s., and the Abbot of Ely had the commendation. There 
were also here 2 freemen, Aluric and Wistric, holding 2 acres valued at i2i., 
and a church with one acre, valued at 2d. The King and the Earl had the 
soc over the whole. 

The third manor, consisting of 30 acres, was held in the Confessor's 
time by Harold, a freeman in the Abbot of Ely's soc and commendation. 
There were 2 bordars, i ploughteam, 2 acres of meadow, and wood for 10 
hogs, valued at los. To the church belonged 2 acres, valued at 4^. 
The bishop had three other small holdings here, one of 3 freemen 

'Dom. ii. 338, 3386. 



CODDENHAM. 281 

with 7J acres and half a ploughteam, valued at 2S. ; a second consisting 
of a freewoman Levevaj holding in the Confessor's time 10 acres and 
half a ploughteam with three bordars, and an acre of meadow, valued 
at 4s. ; and the third consisting of 15 freemen, with 80 acres less i, of which 
freemen 6 were under commendation to Sachs, the predecessor of Ralph 
Piperelli, and there were formerly 5 ploughteams, but at the time of the 
Survey but i, wood for 10 hogs, and 2 acres of meadow in Saxon times 
valued at 30s., but in Norman days at 20s. Both of this holding and the 
first of these last three the King and the Earl had the soc' 

A sixth manor was amongst the possessions of Ranulph Peverell, 
Humfrey, son of Aubrey, holding of him the lands which Leuric, a freeman, 
had held in the Confessor's time, namely, 60 acres. There were 3 bordars, 
2 ploughteams, 4 acres of meadow, wood for 60 hogs, some part of 3 
churches, i rouncy, formerly 8 beasts, which number had come down to 6, 
14 hogs and 12 sheep, formerly valued at 20s., but at the time of the Survey 
at 40s. Also a church with 3 acres valued at 6^?/ 

There were several other little holdings in this place mentioned in the 
Domesday Survey. Amongst the lands of Earl Alan, 3 freemen with 4 
acres, valued at 8^., of which the King and the Earl, had the soc.^ Amongst 
the land of St. Etheldreda, 16 acres of demesne included in the valuation 
of Barham.* 

Amongst the land of Roger de Rheims, 3 freemen with 30 acres, i 
bordar, an acre and a half of meadow, and formerly i ploughteam, but at 
the time of the Survey half a team only, in Saxon times valued at 6s., and 
in Norman days at 5s. And the fourth part of a church and the fourth of 
that which belonged to the church. This land Warenger held of Roger de 
Rheims. but he disseised him, and the King and the Earl had the soc. 

Roger also had here a freeman Alwin, holding an acre valued at 2d., 
and held 4 acres in demesne, which were valued therewith,' and Roger 
also held in demesne 6 freemen with 26 acres in the soc of the King, the Earl 
having formerly 2 ploughteams, but at the time of the Survey only i, 
and I acre of meadow valued at 12s., less 2d. The said Roger de Rheims 
had Aluricus and Booty, freemen under Booty, holding 9| acres, having 
formerly half a ploughteam, but at the time of the Survey a team of 2 
oxen only, valued at 3s. This MUo held of Roger.* Amongst the land of 
Eudo, son of Spiruic, Siric a freeman held in demesne 5 acres valued at 
lod., of which the King had the soc,'' and amongst the land of Humfrey, 
son of Aubrey, were 11 freemen, with 78 acres, formerly having 2 plough- 
teams, but at the time of the Survey a team and a half only, and 2 acres of 
meadow, and also amongst Humfrey's possessions was a freeman with 4 
acres valued at M., the soc being in the King and the Earl, and a freeman 
named Aluric with 8 acres in King Edward's time.^ 

Amongst the lands of Earl Ralph, which Goodrich, the Steward, kept 
in hand for the King, we find Aimer, a freeman, holding 8 acres, valued at 
xod., of which the King and the Earl had the soc' Amongst the land of 
Roger de Poictou were 2 freemen with 18 acres, formerly having i plough- 
team, but at the time of the Survey none, valued at 45.'° 

^Dom. ii. 375. ^Dom. ii. 422, 4226. 

^Dom. ii. 417. ''Dom. ii. 434. 

^Dom. ii. 304&. 'Dom. ii. 433. 

*Doin. ii. 383. ^Dom. ii. 285. 

5Dom. ii. 422, 422&. '°Dom. ii. 352, 352i>, 

M I 



282 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

Amongst the possessions of Robert Malet were lo acres valued at 2od., 
which in the Confessor's time were held by a freeman under commendation 
to Edric. This at the time of the Survey was held by Robert Malet in 
demesne.' The only other holding in Coddenham is specified amongst the 
land of the Vavasours, namely, the holding of Friebern, a priest, with half 
an acre in alms, valued at idj" 

Manor of Denney's with Sackvill Rents. 

This was the manor held by Wicolf, a freeman, in the Confessor's time, 
and by Garenger under Roger Bigot in the days of the Conqueror. It was 
later in the lordship of Roger de Prydeton. In the Abbreviation of Pleas 
in 1285^ we find a note of an inquisition stating that the Manor of Coddenham 
is not held of the King in capite, but of William de Monte Caniso,who is the 
chief lord of same, and that the manor belonged to Roger de Prydeton. 
In this inquisition several descents are recited. 

The manor is mentioned in the inquisition p.m. of Richard de Josebok, 
and an Extent of it given in 1312,^ while a little later we find it vested in 
Roger le Deneysor Denneys,^ who had a grant of free warren here in 1535.* 
TheDenneys had held lands here at a considerably earlier period, for in 1282 
we find on the Patent Rolls a commission issued touching the persons who 
carried away the goods of Matilda, late wife of Roger le " Deneys " and others 
at Coddenham and Gretingham," and in 13 10 we find a lease by this Roger 
le " Denneys" to Nicholas Spake and Alice his wife of a piece of land called 
"Fleyfordsfeld," in Coddenham, paying annually to the said Roger i^d? 
From Roger le Deneys the manor passed to his son and heir, Sir Philip 
Deneys, Knt. Amongst the Bodleian Charters we find a quit claim by this 
Sir Philip Deneys to John Jaune, parson of the Church of Glemsford, of all 
right in certain land,^ and also amongst the same Charters a grant by the 
same Sir Philip to the said John Jaune of land in Coddenham.'" Sir PhUip 
died in 1391, when the manor vested in his son and heir, Roger Deneys. 
And this year we meet with a quit claim by this Roger to John Jaune, 
parson of Glemsford, of all right in the above-mentioned piece of land in 
Coddenham." Roger Deneys resided at Tannington, and married Maud, 
daughter of Peter Briseworth, of Tannington, and was succeeded by his son 
and heir, John Deneys. He left an only daughter, Anne, married to 
Thomas Playters, of Sotherley. 

The next lord appears to have been Sir Philip Booth, Knt., and to him 
succeeded his daughter and heir, Audrey Booth, married to William 
Lytton. He died in 1516, and she the year following, when her son and heir, 
Sir Robert Lytton, had the manor and died seised of it in 1571, when it 
passed to his daughter and coheir, Helen, wife of Sir John Brocket, Knt. 

One third seems to have been included under the name " Deanys " 
in a fine levied in 1554 ^y William Lawson and others against John Brokett 
and others." Helen died in 1586, when the manor passed to her daughters 
and coheirs — Margaret, married to Sir John Cutts, Knt. ; Anne, married to 
Alexander Cave ; Helen married to Richard Spencer ; and Mary, married to 

' Dom. ii. 304&. ^ Chart. Rolls, 9 Edw. III. 60. 

^Dom. ii. 447. ^Pat. Rolls, 10 Edw. I. 22A. 

^13 Edw. I., majus record', Trin. 20. ^Bodl. Suff. Ch. 536. 

^I.P.M., 5 Edw. II. 41. 9 10 Rich. II. Bodl. Suff. Ch. 362. 

5 There is a grant of the Manor in 1319 "13 Rich. II. Bodl. Suff. Ch. 567. 

amongst the Harl. Charters in the " i& Rich. II. Bodl. Suff. Ch. 570. 

Brit. Mus. Harl. 50 A. 35. " Fine, Easter, 21 Mary I. 



CODDENHAM. 283 

Thomas Reade, who in 1599 held their first court for the manor. Robert 
Goldynge and others acquired the share of Margaret and her husband, Sir 
John Cutts, in 1599.' Thomas Clenche acquired the share of Anne and her 
husband, Alexander Cave, in 1601,' and the share of Mary and her husband, 
Thomas Reade, in 1602.^ 

Edward Bacon, of Shrubland Hall, bought the right of Margaret, and 
died in 1618. Ralph Cantrell or ChatreU, of Hemingston, bought the share of 
Helen and her husband, Richard Spencer in 1601,"* and died in 1623, when 
this part passed to his son and heir. Sir Ralph Cantrell, who brought a 
suit of partition, and afterwards sold such lands belonging to the manor as 
fell to his part to John Deynes, of Jordaines, in this parish. The moiety of 
the manor (for he seems to have acquired this) he sold to Robert Shawe, 
a merchant of Ipswich, who in 1639, was joint owner of the manor with 
Nicholas Bacon, of Shrubland Hall. The Shawe moiety later passed to 
Mileson Edgar, for we find him lord with Nicholas Bacon in 1764, and the 
moiety passed under his will in 1778. 

The whole manor subsequently became vested in Sir William Fowle 
Middleton, Bart., by purchase. He died in 1829, when it pat^sed to his 
son and heir, Sir William Fowle Fowle Middleton, Bart. From this time 
the manor has devolved in the same way as the Manor of Lawshall in 
Babergh Hundred, and is now vested in Lord De Saumarez. 

One one-third of the manor appears to have been included with the 
Manor of Shrubland in Barham and of " Derboughs " in Earl Stonham is a 
fine levied in 1558 by John Goo dwyn and others against Thomas Liftby and 
others.^ 

Arms of Denney : Arg. a chevron Sa., between 3 mullets Gu. 

Manor of Vesseys al. Veises, otherwise called the Priory or the 
" Manor of Coddenham Vicarage." 

This manor was the inheritance of Hugh de Rickingale, and in the 
time of Hen. IH. was granted by him to the Priory of Royston. 

A grant of St. Mary's Church in Coddenham had been made to found 
a monastery here in the early part of the reign of Hen. H.* And we meet 
with a Papal confirmation of the church in Coddenham to Royston Priory 
in 1184 and 1192.^ This priory in 1293 acquired a messuage, 80 acres of 
land, 3 acres of meadow, and ij acres of wood and 17s. rent in Codden- 
ham from Geoffrey Leuveyse or le Enneyse.^ Florence Suffragan, of Col- 
chester, being Vicar of Coddington, "did for augmentation of his Mannorat 
his first court, 4 Edw. IV. lett out by copy of court roll a considerable 
part of the glebe which lay in severall places in the fields, but some of them 
are since lost." 

A lease by Robert White, Prior of Royton, to Edmund Bredilhaugh, of 
Fornset, of the Parsonage of Codenham and Codenham Manor is mentioned 
in the State Papers in 1529.^ At the dissolution of the religious houses, 
the manor went to the Crown, and was granted by Hen. VIII. in 1544 to 
John Atkyns,'° who had licence in 1547 ^ alienate to John and Edward 

'Fine, Trin. 41 Eliz. ^'Cott. Aug. ii, 124,130. 

^Fine, Trin. 43 Eliz. ^Pat. Rolls, 21 Edw. I. 9; I.P.M., 21 

3 Fine, Mich. 44-45 Eliz. Edw. I. 12. 

■♦Fine, Mich. 43, 44 Eliz. ^State Papers, 1529, 6132. 

5 Fine, Mich. 5 Mary I. " 36 Hen. VIII, 6 Pars. 0. Rot. i ; and 

sCott. Nerv. C. iii. 227. Mich. Rec. 37 Hen. VIII. Rot. 13. 



284 



THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 



Gosnold.' These persons in 1557 had hcence to ahenate to Clement 
Ungle, who in 1569 held the rectory and church here, and procured a licence, 
to alienate to William Ungle. In 1580 John Ungle, his cousin and heir, 
levied a fine, and seems under it to have acquired the manor,' and with his 
wife Frances in 1609 sold this manor, or rather the reversion in it (for it 
was then subject to a lease granted by William Ungle) to Francis Chappine, 
into whose hands had likewise come the lease, for which he showed the last 
will of Michael Streinsham, and after a short suit had the release from the 
eldest son of the said Michael upon composition. This Francis Chappine 
was son of Ralph Chappine and of Anne, daughter of — Crane, who was 
aunt to Sir Robert Crane, of Chilton, Knt. and Bart. Francis Chappine 
was under-sheriff for the County of Suffolk about the year 1609, and was 
baihff of the Liberty of Samford, Stow, and Bosmere and Claydon. He 
married Dorothey, daughter of John Fortescue (who was remarried to 
Richard Dove\ and died in 1623, when the manor passed to his son and 
heir, Tallemach Chappine. This seems to be the same man as " Thomas 
Chappyn, son of Francis," mentioned in the Chancery Papers in 1629, 
referred to in the 43rd Report of the Deputy Keeper of Public Records,^ 
and to whom livery of the rectory of Coddenham is said to have been given. 
He married Frances Morgan, and died in 1642, when he was succeeded by his 
son and heir Robert Chappine. 

The impropriation of the church of Coddenham was purchased by the 
Rev. Balshazar Gardeman, vicar thereof, and was vested in trustees in perpe- 
tuum for the vicar here for the time being by deed bearing date 5th May, 
1736. 

By this deed the reverend gentleman, and Lady Catherine his wife, 
also settled certain messuages and hereditaments here on trustees for the 
use of the vicar of the parish and his successors, subject among other things 
to a condition that the vicar for the time being should out of the rents and 
profits yearly between Michaelmas and Christmas lay out ^^5 in clothes, 
to be worn by such poor inhabitants of the parish as he should think 
worthy objects of having the same. And Lady Catherine Gardeman by 
deed dated 31st May, 1753, conveyed to trustees a messuage and 52 acres 
I rood of land in the parishes of Mendlesham and Earl Stonham upon trust 
for teaching 15 poor boys and as many poor girls belonging to this parish 
to read, write, and cast accounts, knit, and sew. 

Robert Ryece, of Preston, in 1655 possessed some original rolls of a 
leet held by the vicar, to which belonged a great part of this parish of 
Coddenham and Hemingston, and of a Court Baron of the vicarage, of 
which many tenants in Coddenham, Crowfield, Stonham, Hemingston, 



' " It was the observations of old men in 
Coddenham that lived till my 
time that since Gosnold and Loosen 
persecuted that martyr Thomas 
Spurdance (mentioned by Mr. Foxe) 
their families did never thrive. 
Loosen sold his whole estate by 
parcels to severall men, and died 
full of lice. Mr. Gosnold a great 
man in estate decayed by little 
and little and left a very small 
pittance to his children. His 
eldest sone Capt. [Robert] Gosnold 
(whose mother was sister to 



Mr. Andrew Tinnellmarsh) was 
at one time Governor of Landguard 
fort in the time of King Charles. 
John Gosnold sold the Priory and 
the Fifties [in 1557] to Christopher 
Ungle." MS. of Suffolk families, 
Conder. Capt. Gosnold was not, 
however, as above stated. Governor 
but chief military officer on the 
spot. See "Hist, of Landguard 
Fort, pp. 19-21. 

^Fine, Mich. 22-23 Eliz- 

^App. i. p. 138. 



CODDENHAM. 285 

and Gosbeck had held both freely of Court of Copy Roll, " many of which, 
by the concealment of those that possessed them, and by reason of the 
frequent change of the vicars are quite lost from the vicarage." These 
documents were from the i Edw. III. [1327], and were perfect during that 
King's reign, and kept somewhat negligently in the reign of Rich. II., but 
then little remained until Hen. VI. and Edw. IV., from whose times they 
had again been kept very imperfectly. 

By the custom the eldest son is heir and the senior brother. A widow 
is not entitled by the custom to dower. 

Arms of Chappyne : Or, a chevron betw. 6 mullets, Gu. 

Manor of Bridge Place. 

In the time of Rich. II. the manor seems to have been vested in Gilbert 
de Debenham, and amongst the Bodleian Charters we find in 139 1 a con- 
firmation by him to John Jaune, rector of Glemsford, William Deneys, 
chaplain, and John Chapman, of Coddenham, of seven pieces of land in 
Coddenham.' In the time of Hen. VI. the manor was vested in Sir 
Gilbert Debenham, Knt., son of Gilbert by Jane Jernegan, his wife, and 
grandson of Gilbert Debenham, of Wenham Parva. He died in 1449, 
when the manor passed to his son and heir. Sir Gilbert Debenham, who 
died in 1481,'' when he was succeeded by his son and heir. Sir Gilbert 
Debenham, Knt., fifth of the name, who died in 1493, or, according to 
Davy, in 1500. It seems that he was attainted of high treason and his 
estates confiscated by Act of Parliament, 14th Oct. 1495, but in 1503 his 
nephew and heir, Robert Brewse, son of Eliz. the wife of Sir Thos. Brewse, 
sister of Sir Gilbert Debenham, fifth of the name, obtained a reversal of the 
attainder and a restoration of his estates.^ Robert Brewse died in 1513, 
and was succeeded by his son, Thomas Brewse. 

Ela Fincham, widow of John Fincham, daughter and coheir of 
Gregory Edgar, held a moiety of the manor, and died seised 21st Jan. 1540, 
when she was succeeded in the lordship by her son and heir, Thomas 
Fincham, of Fincham, co. Norfolk.'* 

Sir Humphrey Wingfield, of Brantham, Knt., held a moiety, and died 
seised 23rd Oct. 1545,^ and in 1559 a fine was levied against Robert Wynfeld 
of this moiety by John Wright and others.® Another fine was levied 
apparently of the whole manor in 1576 by Ralph Scryvener against Charles 
Cornwallys and others,^ and Davy states that in 1609 John Scrivener was 
lord, but places a query against the name. 

It is clear that the manor was purchased by Richard Hakluyt, the 
celebrated geographer, who was rector of Wetheringset in 1590, having 
previously been prebendary of Bristol, and who was subsequently arch- 
deacon of Westminster. Hakluyt was educated at Westminster School, from 
whence he was elected to Christ Church, Oxford, where he made cosmography 
his favourite study and read lectures on it. His work, entitled " A Notable 
History, containing four voyages made by certain French Captains into 
Florida," appeared in 158=7, and his "Principal Navigations, Voyages, and 
Discoveries of the English Nation " was issued in 1589, and much enlarged 
in three volumes, 1589 to 1600. As early as 1582 he had published in folio 

'Bodl. Suff. Ch. 569*. n.P.M., 33 Hen. VII., 154. 

^I.P.M., 21 Edw. IV. 48. 5 1 P.M., i6th Jan. 1545-6,37 Hen. VIII. 

^R.P.jVi., 549. See Manor of Vaux, in *Fine, Mich, i Eliz. 

Wenham, Samford Hundred. Tine, Mich. 18-19 EHz. 



286 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

a collection of voyages to which he subsequently added two more volumes. 
It was during his absence in Paris acting as chaplain to the British Ambas- 
sador that he was made prebendary of Bristol. On his return to England 
he published several works, particularly a translation from the Spanish of 
" Led's Geographical History of Africa " and " Peter Martyr's History of 
the West Indies." In 1603 he was made archdeacon of Westminster, and 
died 23rd Nov. 1616, being buried in Westminster Abbey. His MSS. were 
made use of by Purchas in his Pilgrimage, 5 vols. fol. 

His son, Edmund Hakluyt, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, sold 
the manor about 1617 to Simon Blomeville or Blomfield, of Coddenham, 
son of Simon Blomville, of Monks Eleigh, and Elizabeth his wife, daughter 
of Arthur Penning, of Kettleburgh, which Simon Blomville was son of 
William Blomville and Anne Cutting his wife. Simon Blomfield, the 
purchaserof this manor, married Alice, daughter of John Lea of Coddenham, 
who afterwards married William Cage, Portman of Ipswich. Simon died 
2ist July, 1633,' when the manor passed to his son and heir, William Blom- 
field of Bildeston, who married Margt., daughter of John Cole, of Bildeston, 
and died in 1672. On a large altar-tomb in the churchyard of Bildeston, 
covered with a very thick slab, is this inscription as given by Mr. F. S. 
Growse in his "Materials for a History of the Parish of Bildeston," privately 
printed 1892. 

" Sub hoc marmore requiescunt quinque liberi Gulielmi Blomvyle 
armigeri et Margaretse uxoris ejus unicae filiae Johannis Cole Generosi denati 
anno aetatis. 

Symons secundo . . . . . . . . . . 1653 

Samuel tertio . . . . . . . . . , 1658 

Benjamin secundo . . . . Anno Dom. . . 1658 

Margareta vicesimo . . . . . . . . . . 1664 

Elizabetha primo .. .. .. .. .. 1654" 

On a flat stone in the north aisle : — 

" John the son of John Blomfield Gent, and Joyce his wife dyed ye 
19 day of January Anno Dom. 1690. Aged sixteen months." 

On a flat stone in the chancel of Wattisham Church : — 

" Reliquiae Gulielmi Blomfeild praedii adjacentis domini Irenarchae 

celebrati, consiliarii pacifici ; necnon Margaritae conjugis dUectissimae, 

filiae unicae Johannis Cole gener. de Bilderstone in vicinio, hoc marmore 

Ille i6'72 ^6 

conleguntur. Obierunt j,. Anno Dom. ^;Lq aetat g Relictis filiis duobus 

filiabus quatuor. 

Davy's statement that the manor passed from William Blomfield to 
John is an error, for it was sold to Edward Peck in the lifetime of William, 
by an indenture of conyeyance dated 24th Nov. 1671, which will be found 
amongst the Additional MSS. in the British Museum."" 

In 1809 the manor was vested in John Gibson. 

Arms of Blomfield : Quarterly, Per fesse indented Argent and Azure, 
a bend Gules. 

Manor of St. John of Jerusalem. 

This manor anciently belonged to the Priory of Ipswich, and on the 
Dissolution passed to the Crown, when in 1544 it was granted by Hen. VIII. 
to Sir Thomas Pope, Knt., who is said to have sold it in 1545 to Sir John 
Jermy, of Bright well. The family had held land in Coddenham as early as 

'I. P.M., 2istSept., 9 Car. ^ Add. 29316. 



CODDENHAM. 287 

the reign of Edw. III., for we find a grant of free warren to one John 
Jermy in respect of his lands in Coddenham in 1343.' 

The Sir John Jermy who is said to have bought from Sir Thomas 
Pope not unhkely took directly from the Crown, or Pope may have sold 
to him his right to a grant, for in the 37 Hen. VIII. we find from the 9th 
Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records^ that there are extant 
particulars of the farm of Coddenham Manor for the grant to this Sir John 
Jermy,^ at whose death in 1560 it passed to his son and heir, Francis Jermy, 
to whom succeeded in 1611 Sir Thomas Jermy, K.B., who married Jane, 
daughter and heir of Edward Stuart or Styward, of Feversham, co. Cam- 
bridge, and sold the manor to William Style, then of Gosbeck, son of 
WiUiam. The purchaser married Susan, daughter of Thomas Fastolf, of 
Pettaugh, and built a house at Hemingstone. His son, John Style, of 
Hemingstone, held his first court for this manor 26th May, 1646. Amongst 
the Chancery Proceedings of the time of Queen Elizabeth we find an action 
by Andrew Kynevelmorshe, clerk, against this John Style and others, 
respecting a lease of the vicarage of Coddenham Church, granted to the 
plaintiff by John Lee.* John Style married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard 
Moseley, of Ousden, and died in 1656, when the manor passed to his son 
and heir, WiUiam Style, who died in 1707, when it passed to his widow, 
Elizabeth Style, and on her decease went to her son, John Style, and from 
him to his widow, Catherine, who remarried Thomas Crompton, and held 
their first court 24th June, 1728. John Style left two sons, William, born 
in 1710, and John, born in 1711, but it does not appear whether either 
of them succeeded to the lordship. 

Thomas Best was lord in 1738, on the 7th March of which year he held 
his first court, and the manor subsequently passed to Sir William Fowle 
Middleton, Bart., who held his first court in 1812 and died in 1829, when it 
went to his son and heir, Sir William Fowle Fowle Middleton, Bart., and 
has since descended in a like course as the Manor of Lawshall, in Babergh 
Hundred, being now vested in Lord de Saumarez.' 

Arms of Style : Sa. a fesse Or, fretty of the field, betw. three fleurs-de- 
lis gold ; a bordure of the second. 

Manor of Pipps. 

This manor seems to have derived its name from a former owner. It 
was vested in Ralph Scrivener, of Belstead, who died in 1607, and was 
succeeded by his son and heir, John Scrivener, of Sibton, who sold the 
manor to William Meadow, of Witnesham, who died in 1637, when it passed 
to his son and heir, Thomas Meadow, who sold in 1656 to Lady Penelope, 
daughter of Thomas, Earl Rivers, wife of Sir William Harvey, Knt. In 
1804 this manor was vested in Samuel Uvedale. 

Manor of New Hall. 

Of this manor, Thomas, Lord Wentworth, died seised 3rd March, 1550, 
and it passed to his son and heir, Thomas, Lord Wentworth,' who in 1580 
sold it to Ralph Scrivener, of Belstead,^ who died in 1607, when it passed to 
his son and heir, John Scrivener. 

'Chart. RoUs, 17 Edw. III. 2. ^CP. ii. iii. 

^App. ii, p. 212. 5I.P.M., 5 Edw. VI. 54. 

^See Greeting All Saints Manor, Greeting, "Fine, Mich. 22-23 Eliz. 

in this Hundred, and Metfield Manor, 

Mendham, Carlford Hundred. 




288 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

GREETING. 

[HERE were three manors in the Greetings in the time of the 
Domesday Survey. One manor was included in the 
possessions of Robert, Ear] of Moretaign, and consisted of 
2 carucates of land, which had been held in the Confessor's 
time by a freeman named Ulnod, and the Earl gave them 
to St. Mary of Grestein. To this manor were attached 6 
villeins, 5 bordars, and 4 serfs, and there was i plough- 
team in demesne, while there were 3 belonging to the tenants later reduced 
to a team and a half; besides there were 7 acres of meadow, wood 
sufficient for 24 hogs, 5 beasts, and 16 hogs, all valued at 60s. There 
were also 12 freemen and a half, added since the Conquest, with 58 acres, 
having formerly 4 ploughteams, but at the time of the Survey but 2 
and a half, valued at iis. 4^. 

The manor extended for one league in length and half a league in 
breadth, and it paid in a gelt loi. It is stated in the Survey that others had 
holdings in the township, and the King and the Earl had the soc. Also that 
to this manor half a mill belonged, but Hardwin, the Earl's brother, took it 
away in King William's time.' 

Another manor was amongst the possessions of the Bishop of Bayeux, 
having been held by Osgood, a freeman, with 30 acres in the Confessor's 
time. There were attached to the manor a bordar, a ploughteam, 8 hogs, 
9 sheep, and an acre of meadow valued at 125. One Garenger held of 
Roger Bigot, who held of the Bishop, and the King and the Earl had the soc.^ 

The third manor was amongst the possessions of the Abbot of Bernay, 
and consisted of a carucate and a half of land held by a freeman named 
Aluric. To the manor belonged 4 villeins, 12 bordars, and 2 serfs, 3 acres 
of meadow, 6 beasts, 15 hogs, and in Saxon times 100 sheep, but at the 
time of the Survey 36 only. In former days there had been 4 plough- 
teams, 2 in demesne and 2 belonging to the tenants, but at the time 
of the Survey there was but i in demesne and i belonging to the men. 
The value had, however, risen from loos. to £b. The abbot also held here 
24 freemen, having i carucate of land and i virgate formerly with 3 
ploughteams, but at the time of the Survey a team and a half valued at 
20s. There was also a church with 12 acres. ^ 

Other holdings specified in the Domesday Survey here were six, three 
of Robert Malet, who had first a freeman under Edric by commendation, 
holding in the Confessor's time 20 acres and 2 bordars with half a plough- 
team, but then but i ox, and i acre of meadow, valued at 3s. 4(^. This 
at the time of the Survey was held of Malet by Walter de Caen. Secondly, 
a freeman with an acre and a half, who was by commendation the man of 
one himself under commendation to Edric, valued at 2s., which Robert de 
Glanville held of Malet ; 3rdly, a freeman under Edric, holding 8 acres and 
a part of a mill close valued at 2S., held in demesne.* 

The remaining holdings were those of William de Varennes, of whom 
one Humfrid held a freeman with 38 acres and i ploughteam, formerly 
valued at 8s., but then at los.'; Walter de Saint Valery holding a freeman 
with 60 acres in the Confessor's time under commendation to Robert 

' Dom. ii. 2916. ■• Dom. ii. 3046. 

'Dojn. ii. 374&. ^Dom. ii. 3986. 

*Dom. ii. 389. 



GREETING. 289 

Malet's predecessor, and his father was seised thereof, and 4 villeins and 
half a ploughteam. " This," says the Survey, " is attached to Greeting, in 
Stow Hundred, and is included in its valuation." Walter also had 4 freemen 
by commendation, holding 7 acres' ; and finally amongst the land of the 
Vavasours is a freewoman Aldith, holding half an acre, valued at id." 

Manor of Greeting All Saints. 

Davy seems to consider that the small holdings of Robert Malet com- 
prised this manor, but this is doubtful. We find that in 1299 Eva, widow 
of Robert de Tybetot held a right of fishery here, and not unlikely 
exercised manorial rights. 

In 1333 the Priory of Holy Trinity, Ipswich, held the manor, and a note 
concerning the tenements of the priory here will be found amongst the 
Bodleian Gharters,^ and of the lands held here in the time of Hen. VI. 
amongst the Stowe Gharters in the British Museum.* The manor a little 
later seems to have been the lordship of one G. Halle from whom Thos. 
Greeting derived title in 1428. Richard Felaw held a fee here in 1502, but 
whether he had the manor or not is uncertain. His daughter Agnes married 
John Fastolfe. The manor passed to the Grown, for in 1544 it was granted 
by Hen. VIII. to Sir Thomas Pope, who had licence to alienate to Sir 
John Jermy,^ son of Edmund Jermy^ of Metfield, in Mendham. He married 
Margt. daughter of Sir Thomas Teye, Knt., and on his death in 1560 the 
manor passed to his son and heir, Francis Jermy. He married Elizabeth, 
daughter and coheir of Sir William Fitz- Williams, Knt., of Ireland, and 
apparently parted with the manor, for a little later we find it vested in 
Thomas Almott, whose daughter and coheir, Katherin, married John Glench, 
a Justice of the Queen's Bench, and carried the manor into that family. 
John Glench was son of John Glench, of Wethersfield, co. Essex, by Jane 
his wife, daughter of John Amis, of Essex. A fine was levied of the manor 
in 1565 by John Glench against John Almott.^ From the death of Judge 
Glench in 1607 to the death of Sir Robert Glench in 1661 the manor passed 
in the same course as the Manor of Holbrook, in Samford Hundred. Later, 
it was vested in the Bridgeman family, whose heirs in 1753 sold the same to 
Philip Ghampion Grespigny, of Doctor's Gommons. This manor, together 
with that of St.01ave,and three freehold farms, let for £370 per annum, were 
offered for sale in Aug. 1786.'' 

Subsequently it became vested in Sir William F. F. Middleton, who 
was lord in 1855, from which time the same has descended in the same 
course as the Manor of Lawshall, in Babergh Hundred, and is now vested in 
Lord de Saumarez. 

Arms of Almott: Argent, on a bend cottised Sable, three escallops of 
the field. 

The Manor of Greeting St. Mary. 

This was granted to the Abbey of St. Mary de Bernay, in Normandy, by 
William the Gonqueror, and was held by the Priory of Greeting as a cell 
to Bernay.^ The house was a Benedictine or of Black Monks, and the 

'Dom. ii. 432b. ^Fine, Trin. 7 Eliz. 

^Dom. ii. 446. '' Ipswich Journal, 12th Aug. 1786. 

3 Bodl. Suff . Ch. 217. ^ Testa de Nevill, 295 ; Close Rolls, lo Edw, 

+ Stowe Ch. 401. II. 30, I Edw. III.?pt. i. 22. 

5 See Manor of Metfield, in Mendham, 
Hoxne Hundred. 

NI 



290 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

church and rectory of this parish were appropriated to it. Ministers' 
Accounts of the priory 3 to 12 Hen. IV. of various dates will be found in the 
Public Record Ofhce.' The manor and alien Priory of Everdon, in Northamp- 
tonshire, were sometimes reckoned as parcel of the possessions of Greeting, 
which was the chief cell in England of the Abbey of Bernay. In the " Taxa- 
tio Ecclesiastica " its valuation in four parishes in 1291 was £12. 6s. loi., 
and it was suppressed by the statute of Leicester in 1414, when the founda- 
tion with that of Everdon and all the appurtenances were granted by King 
Edw. IV. to the College of Eton, and the Provost and Fellows of Eton are 
the present owners of the same. The grant will be found on the Patent 
Rolls.' 

The Manor of Greeting St. Olave, otherwise Gratinges, otherwise 
WoLNEY Hall, fl/. WoNHALL, WITH Mickfields and Gooks upon Granes. 

This was the manor held by the freeman Ulnod in Edward the Gon- 
fessor's day, and by Robert, Earl of Mortaigne, as the Domesday tenant in 
chief. The manor was given by the Earl to the Abbey of Grestein, in 
Normandy,^ and in 1316 was held by the Prior of Wilmington, in Sussex, 
their chief cell in England, as agent. Ministers' Accounts of the manor 
held here of Greeting Priory, 18 Edw. II., wiU be found in the Public 
Record Office.* 

In 1347 Tydeman de Lymbergh, a merchant, had a lease granted to 
him of the manor for 1,000 years,^ but this seems not to have counted for 
much, as we find that about the same time the abbot and convent, with 
the King's consent, sold the manor by the names of "Mickelfeld and Greet- 
ing " to William de la Pole,^ from whom it passed to Sir Edmund de la 
Pole, and from him in 1359 ^ Sir Michael de la Pole. In 1414 we find by a 
deed dated at Gretying St. Olave the 15th July 2 Hen. V., in Latin, that Sir 
Edmund de la Pole granted the manor and advowson to Edmund de la Pole 
and Margaret his wife, in tail with remainder to the grantor,^ and a little 
later we find the lordship in William de la Pole, 4th Earl and ist Duke of 
Suffolk,^ and Alice his wife, from whom it passed on the death of William 
in 1449,^ to John de la Pole, recreated Duke of Suffolk, on whose death in 
1491 it vested in his son and heir. Sir Edmund de la Pole, 2nd Duke of 
Suffolk. This was not exactly its course of descent, for by reason of the 
forfeiture of John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln,'" who fell in revolt against his 
Sovereign at the battle of Stoke, i6th June, 1487, the manor or the remainder 
had gone to the Crown. But by indenture dated 26th February, 1492, 
the King granted this manor and various other estates enjoyed by William 
de la Pole, 4th Earl of Suffolk, and ist Duke, to Edmund 2nd Duke of Suffolk. 
2nd son of the first John and brother of the second. This unfortunate 
nobleman was treacherously delivered up to the English monarch for being 
a Yorkist, and executed on Tower Hill, 30th April, 15 13, when the manor 
again passed to the Grown. 

In 15 16 it was granted by the Crown to Sir Thomas Howard and Anne 
his wife, daughter of Edw. IV. Later we find a grant of " Cretjmge Manor " 

'Bundle 1093, No. i. ^Cott. xxviii, 87. 

^Pat. Rolls, I Edw. IV. pt. iii. 24. sgee Manor of Gyfford, Wattisfield, in 

3 Testa de Nevill, 295. Blackbourn Hundred. 

^Bundle 1127, No. 4. 9I.P.M., 28 Hen. VI. 25. 

^Kirby says a grant by Edw. III. "> The eldest son of John de la Pole, Duke 



6 



Kirby says to Sir Edmund de la Pole. of Suffolk. 



GREETING. 



291 



by Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, to the Crown in exchange by deed 
30 Hen. VIII. amongst the State Papers.' 

The manor was in 1560 granted by the Crown to Robert Crane, of 
Chilton, from which time to the death of Sir Robert Crane, Bart., in 1642," 
it passed in the same course as the Manor of Chilton, in Babergh Hundred. 

Amongst the Chancery Proceedings in the time of Elizabeth is an 
action on behalf of Robert Crane, an infant (he was afterwards the Baronet), 
by Sir Robert Jermyn, his guardian, as to deeds relating to the manors of 
this place, and the Manor of Mynetts al. Munott's and the Manors of Fleet- 
hall and Waltham Hall, Thedwards, the Manor of Cookes, of Cranes, 
Takons al. Takens, Much Waldingfield al. Waldingfield, the Manors of 
Carbonells with Chilton and Butters, all conveyed by Robert Crane, deceased 
plaintiff's father^ to Sir Robert Jermyn and others to the use of himself 
for life, with remainder to plaintiff in tail.* A little later, we find a Bill for 
the performance of a decree of the Court of Wards and Liveries in an action 
between this Robert Crane and Dudley Fortescue and Reuben Crane as to 
this manor. ^ 

The estates of Sir Robert Crane were by an agreement dated 
15th Dec. 1652, and made between the Hon. Sir William Armin of the 
ist part, the Hon. Sir Ralph Hare of the 2nd part, Edmund Bacon of the 
3rd part, and Edward Walpole of the 4th part, duly partitioned between 
the four coheirs. 

Subsequently the manor vested in the Bridgman family, later in 
Alexander Adair, who died in 1836, when it passed to his cousin and heir, 
William Adair, from which time to the present the manor has passed in the 
same course as the Manor of Cratfield in Blything Hundred, and is now 
vested in Sir Frederick Edward Shafto Adair, 4th Bart., of Flixton Hall. 

Court Rolls of the manor 25 Edw. III. will be found amongst the 
Bodleian RoUs,^ and extracts from Court Rolls in 1705 amongst the 
Additional Charters in the Brit. Mus.^ 



'State Papers, 1538, ii. 1182 (i8a). 

^ His will is dated 13th Feb. 1642, not 7th 
Oct. 32 Eliz., as stated vol. i, p. 73, 
and his grandfather's will is dated 

1590, not 1589, as stated vol. i, 
p. 72. 

^It is quite true that the Visitation of 1561 
makes Robert Crane, created Bart, 
nth May, 1627, a 2nd son of 
Robert Crane, who died 12th Sept. 

1591, by Bridget his 2nd wife, 
daughter of Sir Thomas Jermyn, 
Knt., of Rushbrooke, and Dr. 
Howard so places him in his pedigree 
in the Visitation of Suffolk, vol. i.. 
p. 164. The fact, however, is 
distinctly otherwise, for Sir Robert 
Crane, who was created Bart, was 
the son of Henry and grandson of 
Robert who died in 1591. In the 
will of Henry Crane, 1586, he states 
he is " Sonne and heire apparaunt 
unto Robert Crane of Chilton," 
and bequeaths unto " Cartherine, 
3rd daughter of John Jerningham, 



■•C.P. 
5C.P. 
6Bodl 



Esquyer, nowe the wife of me the 
saide Henry," certain moneys, &c. 
Robert Crane, Henry's father, 
by his will dated 7th Oct. 
1590, refers to it having " pleased 
Almightie God of late to take 
out of this mortall life Bridgett my 
wife, and Henry Crane, my only 
Sonne and heire apparaunt," and 
devises the issues of his manor, &c. 
" during the minoritie of Robert 
Crane, an Infaunt sonne of 
Catheryne, 3rd daughter of John 
Jernegan, Esquire." It is true that 
throughout his will the testator does 
not refer to Robert as his grandson, 
but invariably uses the expression, 
" said Robert sonne of the said 
Catherine," yet he nowhere sug- 
gests that he had married his son's 
widow ! 

i. 187. 
i. 193. 

. Suff. Rolls. 



'Add. Ch. 10115. 



292 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

Exemption of this manor from ecclesiastical taxation in 1372 will be 
found amongst the Harleian Rolls in the Brit. Mus.' We meet with two 
fines which may relate to this manor. One was in 1575 levied by William 
Bridgwater and others against John Borlas and others' ; the other was 
of " Greetings Manor/' levied in 1594 by Thomas Goodale against William 
Borlas.^ 



•Harl. Roll, A. A. 22. ^Fine, Mich. 36, 37 Eliz. 

"Fine, Irin. 17 Eliz. 




CROWFIELD. 293 

CROW FIELD. 

I HE manor was the holding of the Bishop of Bayeux at the 
time of the Great Survey, having been held by Woodebrun, 
a freeman under commendation to Edric, Robert Malet's 
predecessor, in former days. It consisted of 20 acres, i 
acre of meadow, and i ploughteam, which last had 
disappeared by the time of the Survey. The value had 
too by this time come down from 5s. to 3s. Five freemen 
also held 40 acres, in Saxon times, having 2 ploughteams, which had also 
disappeared by the time of the Survey. There was also an acre of meadow. 
The value had been in Saxon times i6s., but had risen by the time of the 
Survey to 20s. 

Both the manor and the freemen were held by Roger Bigot of the 
Bishop.' 

The only other holdings mentioned in the Survey as in Crowfield were 
those of Roger de Rheims, one being 20 acres held in the Confessor's day 
by Edric, a freeman with i ploughteam, 4 rouncies, 2 beasts, 12 hogs, and 
5 sheep, aU of which live stock had disappeared at the time of the Survey, 
though the value had always from Saxon days continued the same, namely, 
40^. 

The second was of Wicolf, a freeman, who had in the Confessor's time 
35 acres, which the said Edric held with the land at the time when it was 
delivered to Roger de Rheims. There were always 4 bordars, wood suffi- 
cient for 10 hogs, and 2 acres of meadow, valued at 8s.^ 

There are two holdings entered in the Domesday Survey under Hors- 
wald which is in Crowfield, One was of the Abbot of Ely, who had here a 
freeman by commendation, and soc in the Confessor's time, having 22^ 
acres, half a ploughteam, and half an acre of meadow, valued at 3s. At one 
time Roger Oburville held this freeman of the King, but the abbot proved 
his right, and at the time of the Survey the freeman held of the abbot. ^ 

The other holding was of this Roger de Oburville, who had 10 acres 
valued at 2od., which had formerly been held by a freeman Leuric, under 
commendation to Godric of Ringshall, the predecessor of William de Othur- 
vile, who then had also a team of 2 oxen. At the time of the Survey 
Gislebert held these 10 acres of Roger, and the King and the Earl had the 



soc* 



Manor of Crowfield. 



The manor was composed mostly of the land belonging to Edric in 
Saxon times, and Roger de Rheims at the time of the Great Survey. In the 
13th century it is said to have been vested in John de Bocking, who died 
in 1262, when the manor passed to his son and heir. Sir Ralph de Bocking, 
and from him to his son and heir, Ralph de Bocking, and from him to his son 
and heir, William de Bocking, who died in 1369,^ when it vested in his son 
and heir, John de Bocking, to whom succeeded his son and heir, Philip de 
Bocking, vicar of Stokingland, who died in 1375 . 

It is quite possible these were the owners of Bocking Manor, in Crow- 
field, and that this the main manor was in the time of Edw. I. vested in the 
Criketot family, for in 1287 we meet with a fine of " Crosfeud " Manor, 
levied by John Crome and Maria his wife against Alexander de Cryketot.^ 

' Dom. ii. 374, 374&. * Dom. ii. 4046. 

*Dom. ii. 4216. 5I.P.M., 43 Edw. III. pt. i. il. 

^Dom. ii. 383. ^Feet of Fines, 15 Edw. I. 38. 



294 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

The manor, if it belonged to Philip de Booking, must have been dis- 
posed of during his lifetime, for it appears to have been vested in John 
Hened and Elianora his wife, who gave it to Thomas Herneys and Katherine 
his wife, as shown in a final concord dated Oct. S. John Bapt. 29 Edw. III.' 
[1355 •] 

In 1374 we meet with a fine levied of the manor by John de Nerpjont, 
jun. and Meliora his wife against William Strangman, of Bradewell, and 
Katherine his wife."" 

The manor then passed into the Wodehouse family, and John Wode- 
house is said to have died seised of it in 1430, but we meet with a fine levied 
of the manor in 1435 by John Wodehouse against William Walworth and 
Margaret his wife.^ 

The manor passed to John Wodehouse's son and heir, Henry Wode- 
house, who died without issue in 1450, when it passed to his brother and 
heir, John Wodehouse. 

In 1453 a fine was levied of the manor by Thomas Stotevile, Thomas 
Heigham, and Thomas Westhorp, clerk, against the said John Wodehouse.* 

John Wodehouse^ died in 1460, and was succeeded by his son and heir, 
Sir Edward Wodehouse, on whose death the manor passed to his son and 
heir, Sir Thomas Wodehouse, who died in 1487, and was succeeded by his 
son and heir. Sir Roger Wodehouse, who died in 1560. 

Sir Roger had, however, disposed of the manor in 1547 to John Har- 
bottle, a merchant of Ipswich,® and in 1556 amongst the Stowe Charters ia 
the Brit. Museum we find an inquisition p.m. of Thomas Spurdans, of 
Crowfield, an unfortunate creature executed for heresy, which contains a 
reference to his lands called " Wigges," parcel of Crofilde Manor, " held of 
John Harbotell."' 

The decree of the Court of Request, 9 Eliz., in favour of Thomas 
Spurdans, son of the executed Thomas Spurdans, as to his right to be 
admitted to copyhold lands called Aryofeilde and Popleys, held of this manor 
against John Harbottle, wdll also be found amongst the same last-mentioned 
Charters.^ 

Amongst the Chancery Proceedings in the time of Queen Elizabeth will 
be found an action by this John Harbottle against Joan, John, and Lionel 
Wythe, touching Bocking Manor, in Crowfield ; and another action by the 
same John Harbottle against Geoffrey Tyllet and Agnes his wife.' 

John Harbottle died in 1587, when the manor passed to his daughter 
and heir, Joan, married to Thomas Risbye, of Lavenham, and on her death 
passed to her daughter and coheir, Elizabeth, married to Henry Wingfield, 
who in her right enjoyed the Crowfield estate. 

We meet in 1601 with a fine levied of the manor by Thomas Clenche 
and others against Edward Grimston and others." 

Page informs us that he, Henry Wingfield, sold ;£200 pei annum 
that lay elsewhere, and about £200 per annum, lying in and near the hamlet of 

' Add. Ch. 10008 ; Feet of Fines, 30 Edw. ^ Fine, Hil. i Edw. VI. 

III. 34. ^3 and 4 Phil, and Mary, Stowe Ch. 402. 

'Feet of Fines, 48 Edw. III. 13. « Stowe Ch. 403. 

3 Feet of Fines, 13 Hen. VI. 18. ^CV., Ser. ii. B. Ixxix. 19, 20, B. xcvi. 19. 

■•Feet of Fines, 31 Hen. VI. 3. '"Fine, Mich. 43-44 Eliz. 
5 For his marriage see Harneys Manor, Ash- 

bocking, in this Hundred. 



CROWFIELD. 295 

Crowfield, and left Harbottle Wingfield his son about £500 per annum. 
This son also inherited the manor, and married Elizabeth, daughter of 
Ralph Scrivener, of Belstead, a portman of Ipswich. He died 31st July, 
1645, and was buried in the parish church of Crowfield. A marble in the 
chancel floor of Crowfield Church displays the arms of Wingfield, differenced 
by a mullet in chief, impaling Ermine on a chief indented (Az.), three leopard's 
faces (Or), Scrivener : above this inscription : — 

Hie posita svnt Corpora 

Harbottelli Wingfeild 

de Crofeild Armig : et Elizabethae 

vxoris illivs. 

Habvervnt 9 

Filios et 3 Filias : obijt hie Jvl : 

xxxi. 1645. 

Henry Wingfield, his son, succeeded, and married Dorothy, daughter 
and heir of Thomas Brewster, who were both living here in 1657. ^^ his 
death the manor passed to his son and heir, Harbottle Wingfield. 

The manor was subsequently purchased by Henry Harwood, who died 
at Crowfield Hall loth Dec. 1738, and was buried in a vault under the 
chancel of the church of Crowfield. He left the manor by will to his rela- 
tion William, son of Arthur Middleton, Governor of South Carolina, whose 
son, William Fowle Middleton of Crowfield Hall, was created a Bart. 12th 
May, 1804, and the manor has since descended in a like course of descent 
with the Manor of Lawshall, in Babergh Hundred, and is now vested in 
Baron De Saumarez of Shrubland Hall. 

A court was held under the title of " Manor of Crowfield with Bocking," 
by Sir Wilham F. F. Middleton, 26th Aug. 1836. 

The hall, which anciently stood within the moat by the chapel, and 
Bocking Hall, which has been almost all rebuilt within less than three 
centuries, were a long time in the Wodehouse family. An account of 
this family, with pedigree in 1602, will be found amongst the Stowe MSS. in 
the British Museum.' 

The hall was entirely rebuilt by Henry Harwood in 1727 and 1728, 
and was advertised to be sold by public auction 17th Mar. 1829, to 
be taken down and removed. The material, however, was not sold 
as advertised, but sold by Sir W. F. Middleton as the house stood to John 
King, of Ipswich, for ;f 1,000. Mr. King took the house down and sold the 
materials by auction at several times during the spring and summer of 
1829. 

There is a statement in the Chancery Proceedings of Queen Elizabeth in 
an action by one Edward Grimston and another, that Johan, wife of Richard 
Wingfield, formerly widow of Harbottle Grimeston, purchased this Manor 
of Crowfield. "^ 

Arms of Wodehouse: Sable, a chevron Or, guttee-de-sang, betw. 3 
cinquefoils, Ermine. Of Harwood : Azure, on a chevron Ermine, between 
three doves close Argent as many acorns ppr. 

Manor of Booking Hall. 

This manor was held in the time of Edw. II. by John de Thorp and 
Alicia his wife. John de Thorp died in 1323,^ and in 1325 Alicia his widow 

'Stowe MSS. 670, F. 88. U.FM., 17 Edw. II. 61. 

^C.P. i. 387- 



296 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

had the King's writ directed to John de Blomvillej Escheator of Norfolk 
and Suffolk, for dower to be assigned her out of certain knights' fees, 
amongst which Winston and Crowfield are named as one held by Ralph de 
Booking at £(). 13s. 4^/ The manor passed from Sir Ralph de Booking, 
Knt., to his son and heir, William de Booking, who died in 1369, and from 
him to his son and heir, John de Booking. In 1407 a fine was levied of 
the manor by John Preston, clerk, John Gedeford, clerk, William Egenton, 
clerk, and William Wayte, clerk, against John Sterlyng, of Ipswich, and 
Margaret his wife,^ and amongst the Additional Charters in the Brit. Mus. 
is a deed whereby William Gerard, one of the sons of John Gerard, of 
Grundesburgh, released to the said John Preston, John " Godeford," and the 
feoffees above mentioned, this manor. The deed is dated 8th Mar. 11 Hen. 
IV. [1410].^ 

A little later the manor vested in the Wodehouse family, and it was 
included in the fine levied in 1453 by Thomas Stotevile, Thomas Heigham, 
and Thomas Westhorp against John Wodehous."* It subsequently passed 
to Roger Wodehouse, and was sold by him in 1547 to John Harbottle.^ 

The manor subsequently went to Henry Harwood, and seems to have 
passed identically in the same course of descent as the main Manor of 
Crowfield. 



'Close Rolls, 18 Edw. II. 7. "Feet of Fines, 31 Hen. VI. 3. 

^Feet of Fines, 8 Hen. IV. 33. ^Fine, Hil. I Edw. VI, 

^Add. Ch. 10052. 




DARMSDEN. 297 

DARMSDEN. 

[HERE were two manors here in Domesday times. One was 
included amongst the lands of Earl Ralph, which Godric 
the Steward kept in hand for the King, and consisted of 
60 acres held by a freeman, with i ploughteam, 3J acres of 
meadow, and i mill in Saxon days, which mill, however, 
had disappeared by the time of the Survey. The value in 
Saxon times was i6s., and in Norman days 9s. 4^.' 

The other manor was held by Kenrick, a freeman, who had 30 acres at 
the time of the Survey, held by Nardred of Earl Alan. Formerly there 
had been i bordar, but then 3 bordars, i ploughteam, and 3 acres of meadow, 
valued at ids., of which the Abbot of Ely had the soc. The Great Survey 
adds, " From this land Roger Bigot took 5 acres of demesne, which William 
holds of him ; he was, however, seised thereof, when Ralph made 
forfeiture."^ 

There were only two other holdings in this place mentioned in the 
Survey. One was the holding of the Abbot of Ely, consisting of 25 freemen, 
having i carucate of land over which the abbot had commendation and soc 
in the Confessor's day. At that time there were 6 ploughteams, which by 
the time of the Survey had come down to 2, and there were 3 acres of meadow. 
The value was 20s. The Domesday Survey says: " Roger Bigot holds of 
the abbot, because the abbot proved his right to it against him before the 
Bishop of St. Lo, but before that, however, he held of the King."^ 

The other holding was that of Hugh de Montfort, of 18 acres and half 
a ploughteam, valued at 2s. jd., which had been held in the Confessor's 
time by Uluric, a freeman under commendation.* 

There is a place in the Hundred of Claydon called " Bermesden " in 
the Domesday Survey, and this probably was Darmsden. Humphrey the 
Chamberlain held here Anant (with) 2 freemen, having 60 acres in the 
Confessor's time, with one bordar, i ploughteam, and 2 acres of meadow, 
valued in Saxon times at 20s., but at the time of the Survey at 30s. The 
land was held by Humphrey in demesne, and the King and the Earl had 
the soc. A freeman was added, holding 4 acres, valued at 2s.^ 

Darmsden Manor. 

This manor was held in the time of Hen. IIL by William Burnaville, 
and probably descended in the same course as the Manor of Baylham, in 
this Hundred, to the time of Thomas, 6th Lord Windsor. 

He seems to have disposed of this manor, for we find that Robert 
Leman^ held the lordship before the death of the 6th Lord Windsor. He was 
of Ipswich, Brightwell Hall, and Nettlestead, 3rd son of William Leman, of 
Beccles, and nephew of Sir John Leman, Knt., Lord Mayor of London in 1616. 
He married Mary, daughter of William Cooke, of Browne Hall, and being a 
member of the Fishmongers' Company, was chosen Sheriff of London, but 
does not appear to have served. Both he and his wife died the same day, 
3rd Sept. 1637, ^^d were buried in St. Stephen's, Ipswich, where on the north 
side of the chancel is a handsome monument of coloured marble richly gilt, 

'Dom. ii. 285. =Dom. ii. 434. 

^ Dom. ii. 294&. ^ For family see Brampton Manor, Blything 

3Dom. ii. 383. Hundred. 

*Dom. ii. 410. 

O I 



298 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

with kneeling effigies and emblazoned shields, which was formerly kept in 
repair by the Fishmongers' Company. He gave ;^io to the Ipswich Public 
Library. He left two daughters only, Mary, married to Richard Bennett 
of Kew, CO. Middlesex, and Alice, married ist to Thomas Barker, of Fressing- 
field, and 2ndly to Charles, Earl of Norwich. 

We next find the manor vested in John Crowley, who died in 1727, 
and was succeeded by his son and heir, Ambrose Crowley, from which time 
the descent is the same as the Manor of Badley, in this Hundred, the manor 
being now vested in Bertram Ashburnham, 5th Earl of Ashbumham. 

Manor of Darmsden Hall (? or Taston Hall). 

This manor was held by Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, who died in 1258, 
when it passed to his son and heir, Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, who died 
in 1305. 

We next find the manor vested in 1352 in Mary, Countess of Norfolk, 
the widow of Thomas de Brotherton, and in 1428 in Richard Sterisacre. 
Later the manor vested in Sir Andrew Windsor, Lord Windsor, who died in 
1542, from whom the same descended in the same way as the main manor 
till the death of Henry Windsor, 5 th Lord Windsor, who died 6th April, 
1605, when the manor is said to have gone to the King. The manor was 
apparently vested in Robert Leman at the time of his death, 3rd April, 

1637- 

Later, this manor became vested in Sir W^ F. F. Middleton, from whom 
it has descended in a like course with the Manor of Lawshall in Babergh 
Hundred, and is now vested in Lord de Saumarez. 

A fine of the Manor of Taston Hall was levied by Sir Edward Walde- 
grave and others in 1558 against William Wyndesore.' 



• Fine, Hil. 5 Mary I. 




FLOWTON. 299 

FLOWTON. 

|HIS was held by Godman in the Confessor's time. Wisgar 
had the commendation and the King and the Earl the soc. 
At the time of the Survey Germund held of Richard, son 
of Earl Gislebert, as a manor, and 2 carucates of land. 
There were in Saxon times 4 bordars, i serf, 2 ploughteams 
in demesne, 9 acres of meadow, i rouncy, 4 beasts, 4 hogs, 
and 15 sheep, valued at £4. By the time of the Survey the 
beasts were 8, the rouncy and the hogs had disappeared, but there were 
60 sheep, and the value was 60s. It was half a league long and four 
quarantenes broad, and paid in a gelt 2d. To this manor Germund added 
15 acres in King William's time, which a certain priest held freely in King 
Edward's time in the soc of the King and the Earl ; of this the value was 
2s. 6d.^ 

Roger Bigot also held here a freeman, by name Bruncart (Lef-child 
had the commendation in the Confessor's time), with 10 acres, valued at 2S. 
This was held in the time of the Survey by Hugh de Hosdenc.'' The only 
other two holdings were the possessions of Roger de Oburville at the time 
of the Domesday Survey. A freeman Godman held in demesne 20 acres 
in the Confessor's time, and he still held them at the time of the Survey 
under Roger Oburville. The value was 40^. The other holding was in 
demesne — 2 freemen, Wilgrip and Edric, one with 40 acres and the other 
with 10 ; also a ploughteam and an acre of meadow, the value of the 
holding being i6s., and of this the King and the Earl had the soc.^ 

Manor of Flowton. 

This was the holding of Godman in the Confessor's time, and of Germund 
under Richard, son of Earl Gislebert, in the time of the Survey. This 
Richard, son of Earl Gislebert, known as Richard Fitz Gilbert, and called 
De Clare, was a grandson of Geoffrey, natural son of Rich. I., Duke of 
Normandy. He accompanied the Conqueror into England, and received 
extensive grants of lands in Suffolk. In 1073 he was joined with William 
de Warren in the office of Justiciary of England. 

He is also called Ricardus de Tonebrugh, after his seat at Tonebrugge, 
now Tunbridge, in Kent, which he obtained from the Archbishop of Canterbury 
in heu of the Castle of Brion. He married Robese, daughter of Walter 
Gifford, Earl of Buckingham, and falling in a skirmish with the Welsh, was 
succeeded by his eldest son, Gilbert de Tonebruge. He joined in the 
rebellion of Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumberland, but having saved 
his Sovereign from faUing into an ambuscade, he was pardoned, and though 
again in rebellion seems to have avoided any forfeiture. He married Adeliza, 
a daughter of the Earl of Cleremont, and was succeeded by his son, Richard 
de Clare, who first bore the title of Earl of Hertford. He married Alice, 
sister of Ranulph, 2nd Earl of Chester, and was succeeded by his son and 
heir, Gilbert de Clare, 2nd Earl of Hertford. In 1145 he was a hostage for 
his uncle, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, and subsequently being in rebellion 
against King Stephen, was taken prisoner and held in captivity until he 
had surrendered all his strongholds. 

He died in 115 1 without issue, and was succeeded by his brother, 
Roger de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford. He married Maude, daughter of 



'Dom. ii. 3936. ^Dom. ii. 404. 

"Dom. ii. 3376. 



a 



300 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

James de St. Hillary, and dying in 1173 was succeeded by his son and 
heir, Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, who in the 7 Rich. I. gave a 
thousand pounds to the King for livery of his lands of his mother's inheri- 
tance, with his proportion of those sometime belonging to Gifford, Earl of 
Buckingham. He married Amicia, 2nd daughter and coheir of William, 
Earl of Gloucester, and dying in 1218 was succeeded by his son and heir, 
Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, who (after the decease of Geoffrey 
de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, the 2nd husband of Isabel, the divorced wife 
of King John (one of the coheirs of William, Earl of Gloucester), and in her 
right. Earl of Gloucester, and her own decease without issue, as also 
the decease of Almarick D'Evereux, son of the Earl of Evereux, by Mabell, 
the other coheir, who likewise succeeded to the Earldom of Gloucester), 
became Earl of Gloucester in right of his mother Amicia, the other coheir. 
He married Isabel, one of the daughters and eventually coheir of William 
Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, and dying in 1229 was succeeded by his 
eldest son, Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford and 2nd Earl of Gloucester.' 

He married ist Margaret, daughter of Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, 
and 2ndly Matilda, daughter of John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, and died in 
1262,^ and Gilbert de Clare, his son, who succeeded to the Earldom of Hert- 
ford and Gloucester, probably also succeeded to this lordship. He had one 
fee in Flowton.^ 

The Davy MSS. mention as lords Giles de " Wachesham," who died 
in 1275, and also another Giles de Wachesham, who died in 1398,'* and 
another Giles de Wachesham, who died in 1425,' but nothing more 
than the names. Their holding was. one fee, but it was not of the manor. 

In 1348 William de Clopton not unlikely held the manor, as he had a 
grant of free warren here this year,^ and in 1428 another William de Clopton 
certainly had the lordship. Thirty years later it had passed to Thomas 
Bendish, and in 15 15 we meet with a fine levied of the manor by Sir William 
Waldegrave against Thomas Rokys and Elizabeth his wife.^ Later in the 
reign of Hen. VIII. the manor vested in Sir Thomas Wentworth, Lord 
Wentworth, who acquired it under a fine levied in 1540 against Thomas 
Vesey and others.^ From this time to the time of Thomas, Lord Went- 
worth, who died in 1667, the manor passed in the same course as the 
Manor of Nettlestead, in this Hundred ; and at his death passed to his 
granddaughter, Henrietta Wentworth, daughter of his son Thomas, who 
had married Philadelphia, daughter of Sir Ferdinando Carey, Knt., and died 
in his father's lifetime, leaving this only daughter. 

The manor is now vested in Charles Henry Chandos Henniker-Major, 
6th Baron Henniker, 3rd Baron Hartismere. 

Amongst the Exchequer Depositions is notice of an action by Martin, 
Bishop of Ely and another, against Richard Grifiith, clerk, in 1607, touching 
the portion of tithe paid by the manor to the monastery of St. John's, 
Colchester, and the parson of " Floughtone." 

Manor of Archers. 

This also in Domesday times was held by Richard Fitz-Gilbert, and 
passed to his son and heir Gilbert de Clare. Somewhat later the manor 

'I.P.M., 47 Hen. III. 34. 'i.p.M., 3 Hen. VI. 32. 

''I.P.M., 47 Hen. III. 34. ^ chart. RoUs, 22 Edw. III. 37. 

n.P.M., 8 Edw. II. 68. ''Fine, Easter, 7 Hen. VIII. 

■^I.P.M., 22 Rich. II. 34. 8 Fine, Trin. 33 Hen. VIII. 



FLOWTON. 301 

was held by Raymond le Archer, of Flowton, and in 1357 Roger le Archer 
was lord, and had a grant of free warren here/ He died in 1375, when the 
manor passed to his widow, Alexandrina de la Mott, widow of Roger la 
Mott, who died in 1384, when it vested in her daughter, Beatrice, married 
to Sir John Roos, Knt., who was dead in 1384. 

The daughter and heir of Beatrice, namely, Anne, succeeded as lady, 
and married Thomas Sackvyle, the manor passing on their decease to John 
Sackvile. In 1458 we find it vested in the Thomas Bendish who held the 
main manor, and with it probably it was merged, and has since passed. 



' Chart. RoUs, 31 Edw. III. 7. 




302 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

GOSBECK. 

jHIS place is mentioned but once in the Domesday Survey 
under the name Estuna^ amongst the possessions of Roger de 
Rheims, and the holding was 15 acres of demesne, which 
Milo then held of the said Roger.' No manor is mentioned, 
but in the time of Hen. IH. or Edw. I. there were three 
distinct manors here, the main manor and those of Childs 
and Ketsalfield, and as distinct manors they certainly re- 
mained until the time of Charles II. 

Manor of Gosbeck or Gosbeck-with-Newton. 

Of this manor Richard de Gosbeck was lord in 1234, s-^d from him it 
passed to his son and heir, Ralph, and from him to his son and 
heir. Sir Hugh, who was succeeded by his son and heir, Richard de Gosbeck. 
It appears from a precept of the Crown, directed to John Abel, Escheator 
on this side of the Trent, that this Richard de Gosbeck held the Manor of 
Gosbeck, with its appurtenances, of Alicia, who was the wife of Roger le 
Bigod, formerly Earl of Norfolk and Marshal of England, by knights' 
service. The document is without date, but Richard de Gosbeck died in 
1311,'' when the manor passed to his son and heir, Ralph de Gosbeck. 

In 1320 a fine was levied by this Ralph de Gosbeck and Alianora, his 
wife against Richard de Wyngefeld and Roger le Denys of two parts of the 
manor.^ In 1327 another fine was levied by Gilbert Roberd and Saiena his 
wife against the said Ralph de " Gosebak " of a third part of the manor.* 
The fine included also the advowson of the church of Eston Gosbeck, and 
in 1333 we meet with another fine of the manor and the advowson levied 
by Sir John Jermye and Joan his wife against William de Blaxhale, of 
Ipswich, and Saiena his wife.^ 

On the death of Ralph de Gosebeck the manor went to John Lampet, 
of Thomdon, who had married Beatrice, daughter and heir of the said 
Ralph de Gosbeck, and then to Ellen, their daughter, who was married to 
Sir William Jermy. John Jermy, son and heir of Sir William Jermy, held 
the manor, and had a grant of free warren here in 1343.® From John 
Jermy to the time of John Jermy who died in 1487, and was succeeded by 
his son and heir, John Jermy,'' who died in 1504, the manor passed in the 
same course as the manor of Metfield, in Mendham, in Hoxne Hundred. It 
seems, however, doubtful whether the last John Jermy really held the 
manor, for it is stated that it was granted by the Crown to Gilbert Deben- 
ham, who apparently died seised of it in 1481,^ when it passed to his son 
and heir. Sir Gilbert Debenham, Knt. We next meet with the manor as 
included in a fine levied in 1527 by Robert Norwich, serjeant-at-law, 
and others against John Jermy and others. In it is included the advowson 
of Gosbeck Church.' A little later we find the manor vested in Thomas 
Bedingfield, who died seised of it 15th March, 1538," and was succeeded by 
his brother and heir, Robert Bedingfield. In 1540 we meet with a fine of 
the manor levied by Henry " Bedynfeld " and others against Sir Edmund 
Bedynfeld," probably on the occasion of some settlement. Robert Beding- 

'Dom. ii. 422, 423. ^I.P.M., 3 Hen. VII. 330. 

"I.P.M., 5 Edw. II. 14 ; 6 Edw. II. 41. «I.P.M., 21 Edw. IV. 48. 

3 Feet of Fines, 14 Edw. II. 31. ^Fine, Hil. 19 Hen. VIII. 

''Feet of Fines, i Edw. III. 13. '"I.P.M., 31 Hen. VIII. 5. 

5 Feet of Fines, 7 Edw. III. 18. »■ Fine, Trin. 32 Hen. VIII. 
"Chart. Rolls, 17 Edw. III. 2. 



GOSBECK. 303 

field was succeeded by Sir Edmund Bedingfield, who sold the manor in 
1584 to William Style.' This sale is supported by an action to be found 
amongst the Chancery Proceedings of the time of Queen Elizabeth, bought by 
Thomas " Garman " the elder, and Thomas Garman the younger, his son, 
against William Style, in support of plaintiffs' title to 12 acres " held by 
plaintiffs and their ancestors for time out of mind at a fine certain of the 
Manor of Newton Gosbache in Gosbeck, Sir Edmund Bedingfield being some- 
time lord of the said manor, which manor was afterwards sold to the defen- 
dant.'"" The Davy MSS., however, allege that the manor returned to the 
Jermy family, and that a first court was held for the manor in 1561 by 
Francis Jermy as lord. 

From a fine levied in 1583 Francis Jermy would seem to have held this 
or another manor in Gosbeck. The Manor of " Gosbeck " only is mentioned, 
and the fine is by Edward Stewarde and others against the said Francis 
Jermy and others.^ Francis Jermy died in 1610, but according to the 
Davy MSS. the manor had vested in his son prior to the father's death, as 
Sir Thomas Jermy held his first court as early as 1606. It is further stated 
that Sir Thomas Jermy sold the manor to John Style, of Hemingston, who 
died in 1656, when it passed to his son and heir, William Style, who died 
in 1707.* 

Later the manor passed to Lord Orwell, and ultimately was acquired 
by Sir William Fowle Middleton, Bart., who died in 1829, from whom the 
manor descended in the same course as the Manor of Lawshall, in Babergh 
Hundred, and is now vested in Lord de Saumarez. 

Arms of Gosbeck : Gu. a fesse wavy Vert, between 6 crosses botonce 
fitchee Or. 

Manor of Childs. 

Little more is known respecting this manor than that in 1558 it was 
acquired by Arthur Daundy from Anthony Yaxly and others,' and in 1577 
it was acquired by William Style or Styles of Thomas Havers and others.® 
From this William the manor passed to his son and heir, William Style, 
who held in i6og. From him it passed to his son and heir, John Style, of 
Hemingston, who died in 1656, when it vested in his son and heir, William 
Style, who died in 1707.'' 

Manor of Ketsalfield. 
This was granted by the Crown in 1544 to Lionel Talemache, who died 
in 1553, when it passed to his son and heir, Lionel Talmach, who died in 
1571, when it went to his son and heir Lionel, and, on his death, to 
his son and heir. Sir Lionel Talmache, Bart., who died in 1612, from which 
time to the present the manor has devolved in the same course as the Manor 
of Helmingham, Hall in thisHundred. 



' Fine, Mich. 26-27 Eliz. ' Fine, Mich. 6 Mary I. 

""CP. i. 360. ^Fine, Easter, 17 EHz. 

3 Fine, Easter, 25 Ehz. ^See Manor of St. John of Jerusalem, in 
■•See Manor of St. John of Jerusaleni, Coddenham, in this Hundred. 

Coddenham, in this Hundred. 




304 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

HELMINGHAM. 

I HE Bishop of Bayeux had six manors here in Domesday times. 
One was a manor consisting of 80 acres, which had been held 
in the Confessor's day by Durrant, a freeman under com- 
mendation to Edric of Laxfield, Malet's predecessor. The 
particulars of the holding, as given in the Survey are : i 
villein, 2 bordars, formerly 2 ploughteams in demesne, later 
I, then none, i ploughteam belonging to the tenants, and 

2 acres of meadow, formerly valued at 30s., but then at 20s. 

A second manor, consisting of 40 acres, was held by Balchi under 
commendation to Aistan, with 4 bordars, i ploughteam in demesne, i acre 
of meadow, i rouncy, formerly 4 beasts, 30 hogs, and 40 sheep, but then 
only 2 beasts, 27 hogs, and 24 sheep, valued at los. 

The third manor was held by a freeman, Wickens, under commenda- 
tion to Burchard, with 30 acres in King Edward's time, and a ploughteam, 
an acre of meadow, wood sufficient for 4 hogs, formerly valued at 6s., but 
at the time of the Survey at 13s. ^d. There was also here a freeman, 
Ailric, under the Confessor, having 25 acres and i bordar, with a ploughteam 
(reduced to half a team by the time of the Survey), and valued at 4s., as 
against 50^., the value placed upon the holding in Saxon times, when it 
was set to farm for los. 

A fourth manor was that held by a freeman, Blackman, under com- 
mendation to one himself under commendation to Edric, Malet's predecessor 
and half under commendation to Saxo, with 24 acres, i ploughteam, 
formerly valued at 5s., but at the time of the Survey set to farm for 15s., 
and valued at 8s. 

A fifth manor was held by Goodrich, a freeman, half under commenda- 
tion to one himself under commendation to the said Edric, and half under 
commendation to Saxo, with 20 acres, i bordar, i ploughteam, and the 4th 
part of a church with one acre and a half of free land, formerly valued at 
6s. /[d., but set to farm for 14s., and valued at the time of the Survey at los. 

The sixth manor was held by Levestan, a freeman under commendation 
to the said Edric, with 20 acres, i ploughteam, and the 4th part of a church, 
with free land, formerly valued at 6s., but then set to farm for 14s., and 
valued at the time of the Survey at los. 

The last holding of the Bishop was of 11 freemen, with 71 acres, over 
two and a half of whom the aforesaid Saxo, predecessor of Ralph Piperelli, 
had commendation, and a half freeman, under commendation to one him- 
self under commendation to Edric, Robert Malet's predecessor. Among 
them they had formerly 2 ploughteams, but at the time of the Survey 
3, and 2 acres of meadow, and half a church with 3 acres, valued at 20s. 
The King and the Earl had soc over the whole.' 

Richard, son of Earl Gislebert, had a considerable estate here. It was 
of Phin's land, and had been held in the Confessor's time by Turi, the 
King's thane, with a carucate of land as a manor. There were two plough- 
teams belonging to the tenants and one in demesne, 3 villeins, 5 bordars, and 

3 acres of meadow, formerly wood for 20 hogs, but at the time of the Survey 
sufficient for 10 only, also 2 rouncies, 4 beasts, 24 hogs, 40 sheep, and 2 
hives of bees, all valued at i6s. in Saxon times and 20s. in Norman days. 
The holding was a league long and 7 quarantenes broad, and paid in a gelt 

' Dom. ii. 3756, 376. 



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PI 



3o6 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

2od. The Survey adds that " others held land here, and the King and the 
Earl had the soc." The tenant in possession under Richard was Walter 
de Cadomo/ 

An eighth manor in this place was held by Robert, Earl of Moretagne, 
who held it in demesne with 30 acres, and the value was los. There were 
also 3 freemen with 3 acres, and to the church i acre belonged, which was 
included in the above valuation. The King and the Earl had the soc, and 
the manor was held of the Earl Robert by Anant, a freeman." 

The holding of Humfrey the Chamberlain was considerable, though 
no manor is specified as belonging to him here. One estate was that of 
Grimwolf, a freeman under commendatioh to the Queen, and consisted 
of 120 acres lying in the demesne of Otley. 

It had I villein, 5 bordars, i plough team belonging to the tenants, 3 
acres of meadow, and wood sufficient for 50 hogs. The valuation was 
included in that of Otley. Another estate then in demesne had been held 
in the Confessor's time by 13 freemen under commendation to Hum- 
frey' s predecessor (except two who were under commendation to Brictuold 
in the Confessor's time), and consisted of 68 acres with 2 plought earns, 
valued at 20s. The third holding was of 40 acres, which in King Edward's 
time had been held by the said Brictuold, a freeman. Attached to it were 
2 villeins, 3 bordars, 3 ploughteams, and 3 acres of meadow, valued at 20s. 
Hammond held this last of Humfrey at the time of the Survey, and the 
King and the Earl had the soc.^ 

The only other holdings mentioned in the Survey were three small 
properties — one of Earl Hugh, consisting of a freeman with 8 acres, valued 
at i6d., the soc being half the Abbot's and half the Earl's ; a second of 
Roger de Poictou, consisting of 3 freemen with 9 acres valued at 2s., of which 
the King and the Earl had the soc'* ; and the third of Roger de Rheims, 
consisting of a freeman Leured, with 20 acres, formerl}'^ with i ploughteam 
and at the time of the Survey none, valued at 3s. id., of which the King 
and the Earl had the soc' 

The eight manors of Domesday in Helmingham became reduced to five, 
and were known as the (i) Manor of Creke's Hall al. Helmingham Hall al. 
Cressy's a/. Joyce's; (2) The Manor of Docking's ; (3) the Manor of Cadley's; 

(4) The Manor of Bromberry al. Raynsbrough al. Blomvile's al. Sulyard's; 

(5) the Manor of Burehall al. Bury Hall al. Berryshall, Willowes, and Sidhall. 

Manor of Creke's Hall al. Helmingham Hall al. Cressy's al. 

Joyce's. 

This was the manor of Turi the Thane in Saxon days, and of Richard 
Fitz-Gilbert de Clare in the time of the Great Survey. It was the land later 
held by Geoffrey de Anos or Hanes, and in the reign of King John by his 
daughter and heir, Margery, married to Bartholomew de Creke.* She died 
about 1252, and was succeeded by her son and heir, Geoffrey de Creke, 
who had a grant of free warren here in 1267.^ 

Amongst the Stowe Charters in the Brit. Mus. is a grant to the Priory 
of Fhxton by this Geoffrey de Creke of the advowsonof Helmingham Church, 

' Dora. ii. 394&. ' Dom. ii. 423. 

*Dora. ii. 2916. *See Manor of Combs, in Stow Hundred. 

3 Dom. ii. 433&. 'Chart. Rolls, 31 Hen. HI. 4. 

*Dom. ii. 299. 



HELMINGHAM. 



307 



for the benefit of the souls of Bartholomew dc Creke and Margery, his 
parents.' 

Geoffrey de Creke died in 1267 unmarried, when the manor passed to 
his brother, John de Creke, who also had a grant of free warren in 1285,' 
and died the same year, when the manor went to his sister and heir, Sarah 
de Creke, married to Roger Fitz Peter Fitz Osbert. An extent of the manor 
will be found in the inquisition p.m. of these persons.^ 

On Sarah's death without issue about 1292, her husband Roger held 
the manor by the curtesy of England during his life, and on his death in 
1306,^ the inheritance of the Creke family devolved upon the descendants 
and heirs of Margaret and Isabel, daughters of Sir Robert de Creke and 
sisters of Sir Bartholomew. Margaret, the eldest, married Sir John de 
Thorpe and Isabel her sister married John, Lord Valoins. 

In 13 10 a fourth part at least of the manor appears to have been vested 
in Edmund de Pakenham and Roesia his wife, for this year they obtained 
authority to pass it to Robert de Ufford and Cecily his wife and her heirs 
in exchange.^ 

Five years later the lordship was held by Roger de Cressy, and in the 
time of Richard II. passed to William Joyce, who died about 1388, when the 
manor went to his son and heir William Joyce. In 1393 we meet with a 
fine levied of the manor by this William Joce or Joyce, Sir George Felbrig, 
John Staverton, Robert Hotot, and John Ashford, pits, against Thomas 
More, clerk, deforciant.* 

William Joyce died in 1415, when the manor passed to his son, James 
Joyce, who died in 1442. 

William Joyce held in 1461, and died seised of the manor in 1483, when 
it passed to his brother and heir, Edmund Joyce, and from him to his 
daughter, Edith, or as some say, on his dying without issue, passed to Edith, 
" daughter and heir of Sir William Joyce, Knt., of Creke Hall." This Edith, 
who was probably daughter of Edmund Joyce or Joce, married Lionel, 
eldest son of John Tollemache, of Bentley, and Anne, his wife, daughter 
and heir of Roger Louth, of Sawtrey, co. Hunts, which Lionel was in 1509 
found by inquisition to hold the Manor of Bentley, in Samf ord Hundred, by 
Knight's service. 

Burke in his Peerage makes this Lionel's grandfather. Sir Lionel 
Tollemache, of Bentley, to have married the "heir of Helmingham," and 
by that alliance to have acquired the inheritance ; but we fail to discover 
any evidence of this, save the statement to the same effect by Betham, 
Kirby, and by Page in his History of Suffolk, under the account of Bentley, 
which in this respect, however, does not agree with the latter's account of 
the family under Helmingham. Lionel Tollemache served the office of 
High Sheriff of the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1512 and i5:30. 

In 15 16 a fine of the manor was levied against him and his wife Edith 
by Sir Richard Wentworth and others, probably on the occasion of some 
settlement.^ Lionel Tollemache became a judge, an honour which is 
recorded on his tomb in Helmingham Church. 

In 1548 he received a grant of a portion of the disendowed priory 
of the Black Canons at Dodneis in the parish of Bentley, including the Manor 



' Stowe Ch. 376. 
" Chart. Rolls, 13 Edw. I. 54. 
3I.P.M., 34 Edw. I. 58. 
■•I.P.M., 34 Edw. I. 58. 



n.Q.D., 4 Edw. II. File 85, 12. 
^Feet of Fines, 17 Rich. II. 26. 
7 Fine, Mich. 8 Hen. VIII. 



3o8 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

of Bentley, the glebe lands^ and the extensive woods. Edith ToUemache, of 
whom there is a portrait at Helmingham, died in 1545, and her husband 
took for a 2nd wife Ehzabeth, widow of Sir Peter Tylney. Lionel ToUe- 
mache, of whom there is a small portrait at Helmingham, died prior to 
1553/ leaving a son, Lionel, who succeeded him. 

The judge's monument, which was erected by his great-grandson in 
1615, is against the north wall of the nave of Helmingham Church, and he 
and his four successive descendants are each represented by a coloured 
figure on the tomb. The judge is kneeling, his hands clasped in prayer. 
His hair is long and curled, and he has a beard. He wears a white ruff, and 
the long black robe is partly covered by a dark cloak, edged with gold. 
Under his effigy are these lines : — 

" Baptized Lyonell, ToUemache my Name 
Since Norman's Conquest of unsoyled Fame 
Shews my Descent from Ancestors of Worth. 
And that my Lyfe might not belye my Birth 
Their Vertues Track with heedful steps I trod, 
RightfuU to Men ; Rehgious toward God. 
Trained in the La we I gain'd ye Barr and Bench 
Ne'er bent to kindle Strife but rather Quench. 
Gentle to Clients, In my Conisailes just. 
With Norfolk's great E>uke in noe little Trust. 
Sir Joyce his Heire was my fay re faithfuU Wyfe. 
Bentley my Seat, and Seaventy Years my Lyfe." 

The Judge's son, Lionel ToUemache, was High Sheriff in 1567, and 
added greatly to his estate by the purchase of several manors and other 
property in this vicinity. 

It is usuaUy asserted that he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth 
during her progress through the counties of Suffolk and Norfolk in 1561, 
and that he was honoured with a royal visit at Helmingham Hall, " where 
from the 14th to i8th Aug. she was most sumptuously entertained, and 
during her stay stood godmother to her host's eldest son." Also that on 
the occasion of the ceremony Her Majesty presented the child's mother with 
her lute, which was long preserved at Helmingham Hall. 

The whole statement is a delusion, arising from confounding Helming- 
ham with Hedingham, in Essex, for Queen Elizabeth never visited Helming- 
ham and the lute which is still preserved at Helmingham is of a much later 
date.' 

Sir Lionel ToUemache married Dorothy, daughter and heir of Sir 
Richard Wentworth, of Nettlestead, by whom he had three sons and three 
daughters. 

Sir Lionel ToUemache died 20th Jan. 1571, in his 74th year, and was 
interred at Helmingham, his efhgy forming the centre figure on the great 
mural monument in Helmingham Church. He is represented kneeling, 
dressed in a suit of black armour, slightly relieved with gilt decoration, 
his sword in its scabbard is suspended from his belt by long straps, with 
buckles at intervals. Above his figure is the ToUemache fret, impaling the 

'I. P.M., 7 Edw. VI.; and Mary D.K.R. °See Genealogist N.S. vol. i., pp. 82, 90, 
10 pt. ii. p. 138. 183; ii. p. 192. 



HELMINGHAM. 309 

coat of Wentworth, Sable, a chevron between three leopards' faces Or. 
Under Lionel ToUemache's effigy are the lines : — 

" Heire of my father's Name, Sir Name, and Seat, 

Lands, Goods, and Goodnes towards Small and Great — 

By Heaven's deare Blessing on my best Endeavour 

In his fayre Footsteps did I well per-sever — 

Amongste the Best, above the Most admired. 

For all the Parts my Race and Place required. 

High Sh'rive of Suffolk once, of Norfolk twise 

For both approv'd right Gentle, Just and Wise — 

Frank House, frank Hart, free of my Purse and Port 

Both lov'd and loving toward everie Sorte. 

Lord Wentworth's Daughter was my lovely Pheer' 

And Foure Score [six lesse] liv'd I Pilgrime heere.'" 

The manor passed to Lionel's eldest son, Lionel ToUemache, who served 
as High Sheriff for Norfolk and Suffolk, and married Susannah, daughter of 
Sir Ambrose Jermyn, of Rushbrooke. He survived his father but four years 
and died nth Dec. 1575, at the early age of 39 years. His effigy forms the 
third figure in the great monument, in which he is represented kneeling in the 
same attitude as his father and grandfather ; and he is in a suit of black and 
gold armourj with a long sword. Above his figure is the ToUemache fret, 
impaling the arms of Jermyn, and beneath the lines : — 

" My Stile and State (least any question should) 

My Sire and Grandsire have already told. 

My Fame and Fortune not unlike to theirs. 

My Lyfe as fayre as humane Fraillty beares. 

My Zeale to God, my Love to everie Good, 

My Saviour knowes his Scaints have understood 

My manye Vertues morall and devine. 

My lib'ral Hand and loving Heart to mine, 

My Pietie, my Pittis, Paines and Care, 

My Neighbours, Pennants, Servants, yet declare. 

My gentle Brid S'. Ambrose J ermine bred. 

My Yeers lack Five of Halfe my Grandsire's Thred."^ 

The manor on the death of the 3rd Lionel ToUemache in 1575 passed 
to his son and heir, a 4th Lionel ToUemache, who married loth Feb. 1580-1 
Catharine, daughter of Henry Cromwell, Baron Cromwell, of Elmham, in 
Norfolk, and his wife, Mary Paulett, daughter of John, 2nd Marquess of 
Winchester. He was High Sheriff in 1592-3, and again in 1608-9, 
and was amongst the first batch of baronets created on the institution of the 
order, the 22nd May, 1611.^ Cockayne says he was living in 1617, but 
died before 1621. He would, however, appear to have died in 1612, and 
been buried at Helmingham, his effigy, in richly gilt armour, being placed 
by itself on the great tomb in the church there. 

'Used for "comparison" by the Earl of 'Taken from the Martin MSS. 

Surrey and other old writers. *See Her. and Gen. iii. 206, 207. 

* Cited from the paper of Mrs. Charles 

Roundell in the Suff. Inst. xii. 103, 

but spelt as in the Martin MSS. 



310 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

Above the kneeling figure of Sir Lionel are the ToUemache arms^ 
with the arms of Cromwell^ and beneath the lines : — 

" Here with his Fathers sleeps S" Lyonell 
Knight Barronet all Honors worthy well 
So well ye acts of all his life exprest 
His elders vertues and excel' d their beste 
His prudent bearing in his publique place 
Suff. high Shireve twice in i6 yeeres space. 
His Zeale to God and towards ill severitie 
His temperance his Justice his sinceritie 
His native mildnesse towards great and small 
His Faith and Love to Frends wife children all 
In life and death made him belov'd and deere 
To God and men. Happy in heaven and heere. 
Happy in soule in body goods and name 
Happy in wedlock with a noble Dame 
Lord Cromwells Daughter happie in his heire 
Whose spring of vertues sprouts so yong, so faire 
Whos deere affection to his Founders' debtor 
Built them this toomb, but in his hart a better." 

Catharine, the widow, survived her husband for eight years, and was 
buried at Helmingham, where there is a marble tablet over the chancel 
door of the church erected to her memory. The coat of arms on this tablet 
has ten quarterings, and the inscription beneath records that Dame Catharine 
" while shee lived for her pietie towardes God, pitie toward ye poore and 
charitie in Releeving (through her skill and singular experience in Chyrur- 
gerie) ye sick and sore wounded, was beloved and honoured of all as now 
missed, and lamented in her death . . . which said Dame Catharine 
having beene married by ye space of 40 yeares, still joiefuUy in ye Faith of 
Christ Departed this Life at Ipswich upon ye 24 day of March Anno r620 and 
in ye 63 yeare of her age.'" 

The manor passed to Sir Lionel ToUemache, 2nd Bart., son of the ist 
Bart., who had previously received the honour of knighthood, 15th Nov. 
1612. He was one of the burgesses of Orford in the time of Jas. I. and 
Chas. I., and married about 1620 Elizabeth, eldest daughter of John 
Stanhope, ist Baron Stanhope, of Harrington, in Northamptonshire, and died 
6th Sept. 1640 in his 49th year.^ 

On the death of the 2nd Bart., the manor passed to his son and heir, 
Sir Lionel ToUemache, 3rd Bart, who married Elizabeth Murray, eldest 
daughter and heir of William Murray, ist Earl of Dysart and Lord Hunting- 
tower. She, upon the decease of her father, became Countess of Dysart, and 
obtained, the 5th Dec. 1670, from Charles II. a confirmation of her honours, 
with a clause in the charter allowing her ladyship to nominate such one 
of her issue as she might select as her heir, failing which, with remainder to 
her heirs, the eldest, if a female, to take without division. 

The Countess, who resided with her husband at Helmingham, was 
frequently visited there by Oliver Cromwell, which occasioned the report 
of their amorous correspondence. She was a woman of great wit, 
and possessor of an extensive knowledge of the world, which, coupled with 
an uncommon penetration in State affairs, made her a person of some 

'Martin MSS. *Admon. 2N0V. 1640. 



HELMINGHAM. 311 

account in the political world. " A woman of great beauty, but of far 
greater parts," says Bishop Burnet ; " violent in everything she set about ; 
a violent friend, but a much more violent enemy ; ravenously covetous, 
and would have stuck at nothing by which she might compass her ends.'" 

Sir Lionel ToUemache, 3rd Bart., died in Paris in 1669.' 

He had amongst other issue by the Countess a son, Sir Lionel ToUe- 
mache, Bart., who became Lord Huntingtower 5th June, 1698, and on the 
death of his mother,^ who had married in 1671-2 John Maitland, ist Duke of 
Lauderdale, K.G., succeeded to her honours, and became 3rd Earl of 
Dysart. He was M.P. for Suffolk 1673-78, for Oxford 1678-87, and for 
Suffollc again from 1698 until the union with Scotland. He was likewise 
Lord Lieutenant, Gustos Rotulorum and Vice-Admiral of the County, and 
High Steward of Ipswich. 

He married in 1680 Grace, eldest daughter and coheir of Sir Thomas 
Wilbraham, 3rd Bart., of Woodhey, co. Chester, and had with other issue 
a son, Lionel, Lord Huntingtower, who died in 1712 in the lifetime of his 
father, leaving issue by Henrietta Heneage, illegitimate daughter of William 
Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire, a son, Lionel, who on the death of his 
grandfather, 23rd Feb. 1726-7 became 4th Earl of Dysart and lord of this 
manor. He married 22nd July, 1729, at St. George's, Hanover Square, 
Grace, eldest daughter of John, Lord Carteret, afterwards ist Earl of Glan- 
ville, by whom he had 15 children, including two sons, Lionel and Wil- 
braham. 

The 4th Earl died loth Mar. 1770,'* and was succeeded by his 3rd but 
eldest surviving son and heir, Lionel, 5th Earl, who married ist, 2nd Oct. 
1760, Charlotte, illegitimate daughter of the Hon. Sir Edward Walpole, 
K.B., and sister of H.R.H. Maria, Duchess of Gloucester; and andly, 29 th 
April, 1791, Magdalen, a daughter of David Lewis, of Allesley and Solihull, 
CO. Warwick, but dying without issue 22nd Feb. 1799, in his 63rd year,' 
was succeeded by his brother Wilbraham, 6th Earl. He was M.P. for 
Northampton, 1771-80, and for Liskeard 1780-84, High Sheriff of Cheshire 
1785, and High Steward of Ipswich after Lord Nelson. He married 4th 
Feb. 1773, Anna Maria, eldest daughter of the above-named David Lewis, 
(sister of his brother's wife), but dying 9th March, 1821* without issue, the 
title devolved upon his only surviving sister Louisa, Countess of Dysart, 
who married 4th Sept. 1764, John Manners, of Grantham Grange, co. 
Lincoln, illegitimate son of Lord William Manners, and survived until 22nd 
Sept. 1840,'' being in her 96th year ; but the family estates in Suffolk, 
Northamptonshire and Cheshire passed to Admiral John Richard Delap 
Halliday, son of Major John Delap Halliday, of The Leasowes, co. Salop, by 
Lady Jane ToUemache, his wife,* sister of Wilbraham, 6th Earl Dysart, and 
of Lady Louisa Manners, Countess of Dysart. John R. D. Halliday was 
born in 1772, and entered the Royal Navy, rising to the position of Vice- 
Admiral of the Red. In Feb. 1797 he married Lady Eliz. Stratford, 2nd 
daughter of John, 3rd Earl of Aldborough, and in 1821, on the death of his 
uncle Wilbraham, 6th Earl of Dysart, took by Royal licence the name of 
ToUemache. He died i6th July, 1837, when the manor passed to his son 

'See Granger's Biog. Hist. ii. 446; 3rd ed. ''Will dated 28th July, 1769, proved 5th 

iv. 192, 193. April, 1770. 

* Buried at Helmingham 25th March. 1669 ; ' Will dated May, 1799. 

will proved 1669. ^Will proved 1821. 

3 Buried at Petersham i6th June, 1698. ^ Will proved 1st Feb. 1841. 



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Who died 28th Aug. 1802, 



312 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

and heir, John Tollemache, of Peckforton Castle, co. Chester, and Helming- 
ham Hall. He resided at Helmingham Hall, and was High Sheriff of 
Cheshire in 1840, M.P, for South Cheshire 1841-68, and of West Cheshire 
1868-72. 

John Tollemache married ist in 1826, Georgina Louisa, daughter of 
Thomas Best, and 2ndly, in 1850, Minnie, daughter of James Duff, by Eliza 
Charlotte (afterwards Baroness Rendlesham), daughter of Sir George 
Beeston Prescott, 2nd Bart. In 1876 he was created Baron Tollemache, of 
Helmingham, and died, 9th Dec, 1890, when this manor vested in his eldest 
son by his first wif e, Wilbraham Frederic Tollemache, 2nd Baron Tollemache, 
of Helmingham Hall, and of Peckforton Castle, co. Chester, who sat as M.P. 
for West Cheshire 1872-85. He married ist, in 1858, Lady Emma Georgina, 
2nd daughter of Randolph Stewart, 9th Earl of Galloway, and 2ndly, in 
1878, Mary Stuart, 3rd daughter of the Right Hon. Lord Claud Hamilton, 
2nd son of the ist Marquess of Abercorn. His eldest son, Lyonel Plantagenet 
married Lady Blanche Sybil King, daughter of the 7th Earl of Kingston, and 
died 28th Aug. 1902, leaving with other issue a son, Bentley Lyonel John Tolle- 
mache, who in 1905 succeeded his grandfather as 3rd Baron Tollemache. 
He married in 1902 Wynford Rose, only daughter of Gen. Sir Arnold Bar- 
rowes Kemball, K.C.B., K.C.S.L 

An assignment of rent from the manor, with reversion in 1292, will be 
found amongst the Add. Charters in the Brit. Mus.' 

This manor is included in the inquisition p.m. of John, Duke of Norfolk, 
and Eleanor his wife, in 1461,^ and a release of it in 1476 from John Sulyard 
to Gilbert Debenham, John Toothyll, and others will be found amongst 
the Additional Charters in the Brit. Mus.^ It bears date the 20th Aug. 
16 Edw. IV. Court Rolls of the manor for the years 1395, 1407, 1457, 1481, 
1482, to 1485, will be found also amongst the Additional Charters in the 
Brit. Mus." 

Creke Hall was demolished, and a new house, the present Helmingham 
Hall, surrounded then as now by its wide moat of clear water, and approached 
then as now by its drawbridge, was built by Lionel Tollemache and his wife 
Edith about the year 1512. It is of a quadrangular form, with a courtyard 
in the centre. In the early part of the last century the hall was com- 
pletely renovated, and that part called the garden front entirely rebuilt. 
The edifice is undoubtedly one of the finest and most interesting in the county. 

Writing in 1829 of the hall, Mr. Kirby says : " The house, completely 
surrounded by a moat filled with water, is approached by two drawbridges, 
which still continue to be drawn up every night. The moat as well as the 
bason in the park, is frequented by great numbers of wild fowl of different 
species, which from the encouragement given by the express orders of the 
noble proprietor arebecome almost tame. The park, comprehending 400 acres, 
contains some of the .finest oak trees in this part of the Kingdom, many of 
them of great age. It is well stocked with deer, the number of which have 
amounted to 700, and among them a few stags or red deer remarkably 
large." The custom as to drawing up the drawbridges every night is, it is 
believed, still continued, but the deer in the park are now about 400. 

Arms of Creke : Or, a lion rampant Az. double-queued within a bor- 
dure Gules. Of Joyce or Joce : Arg. on a chev. per pale Gules and Azure, 
3 escallops of the field. " Of Tollemache : Arg. a fret Sab. 



'Add. Ch. 9838. 3 Add. Ch. 10074. 

'I.P.M., I Edw. IV. 46. ■♦Add. Ch. 10044, 10065, 9812, 10082. 



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HELMINGHAM. 313 

Manor of Bookings. 

This manor was probably the manor in Helmingham which the Austin 
nuns of Campsey had of the gift of Theobald de Valoines, the founder of that 
religious house. In the year 1228 Joan, prioress of this nunnery, released 
the manor to Sir Bartholomew de Creke, son of Robert de Creke. 

This appears from a pleading at Ipswich in 1240, when Robert de Pirho, 
William le Blund, and Robert le Blund were found to owe to Sir Bartholomew 
de Creke £i/{ out of this and other manors assigned for the maintenance 
(per sustentatione uxoris sucb) or jointure of his wife. 

On the death of Sir Bartholomew about 1232 the lordship passed to his 
son, Robert de Creke, and he dying without issue, to Geoffrey, his brother 
and heir, and then to Margaret and Isabel, daughters of Sir Robert de 
Creke, after which it passed in the same course as the main manor. 

The Valoines moiety seems to have been sold about the year 13 15 to 
Edmund Bocking. He was probably the son of the John de Booking 
who held the third part of a knight's fee in Helmingham in the time of 
Hen. III.' 

The Thorp moiety passed from Sir John de Thorp to his son Edmund, 
or grandson John de Thorp. Amongst the Additional Charters in the 
British Museum are letters whereby Edmund Thorp granted to John 
Kalthorp, parson of the church of Parva Massingham, and to Simon de 
Helweton an annual rent, and the reversion of the Manor of Helmingham 
after the death of " Radulph de Bokkyngge." It is dated the 20 Edw. I. 
[1292]. This manor, however, seems to have passed to Edmund's son, 
John de Thorp,^ who, with Alice his wife, held the same, and died in 1323,^ 
when this moiety passed to their son and heir, Sir Robert de Thorp, who 
married Beatrice and died in 1330,* when it devolved on his son and heir, 
John de Thorp, who died unmarried in 1340, when his moiety passed to his 
brother. Sir Edmund de Thorp, who died in 1392.' 

The Bocking moiety, on the death of Edmund passed to Ralph de Bocking, 
who had a grant of free warren here in 1338,^ and who levied a fine of the 
manor in 1342 against Thomas de Felsham and John Horold.^ From Ralph 
de Bocking the moiety passed in the same course as the Manor of Ash- 
bocking, in this Hundred, to the daughters of Edmund Bocking who died 
in 1585. It is specifically mentioned in the inquisition p.m. of WiUiam de 
Bocking in 1369,^ and that in 1493 it was still vested in the Bockings is 
clear from a deed amongst the Additional Charters in the Brit. Mus., by 
which Edmund Bocking, sen., granted the manor in " Helmyngham 
vocatum Bokkynghall quondam Thoma Reede clerici " to Robert Lyndlay, 
clerk. The deed is dated 3rd Nov. 9 Hen. VII. ^ 

Davy makes WilUam de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk, who died in 1381, 
lord, and we do find " Helmingham Manor " mentioned in his inquisition 
p.m.'° But this may have reference to the overlordship. 

In 1661 we meet with a fine levied of this last moiety by Reginald 
Kempe and others against Thomas Argall (probably the son and successor 
of John Argall) and others." Shortly after this the manor passed to the 

' Testa de Ne\'ill, 290. « Chart. Rolls, 12 Edw. III. 6. 

* Add. Ch. 9838. 'Feet of Fines, 16 Edw. III. 31. 

3I.P.M., 17 Edw. II, 61. n.VM., 43 Edw. III. pt. ii. 

*I.P.M., 4 Edw. III. 34. «Add. Ch. 10088. 

5 For further details see Combs Manor, '°I.P.M., 5 Rich. II. 57. 
Stow Hundred. " Fine, 43 Eliz. 

Qi 



314 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

ToUemache family, and Sir Lionel Tollemache, 2nd Bart., died seised of it 
in 1640, from which time the manor has descended in the same course as the 
main manor. 

Manor of Cable ys. 

All that we learn of this manor is that it belonged in 1548 to Lionel 
Talmach, and has since this time remained in the Tollemache family. 

Manor of Bromberry al. Raynsbrough al. Blomviles al. 

SULYARDS. 

This was the lordship of John Reynburgh in 1343, and passed to Thomas 
Reynburgh. In 1358 we meet with a fine levied of the manor under the 
head " Manor of Helmingham " by Adam, parson of Cockfield Church, 
and William de Aylesham, parson of Ufford Church, against this Thomas 
Reynburgh, described as of Hatfield Peverel, but the fine is limited to part 
of the manor only.' 

John de Weston by his will dated 4th June, 1375, directed his trustees, 
Walter de Midiltone and others, to enfeoff John de Weston, his son, and 
Elinor his wife, in the Manor of Helmingham and other lands for their 
lives, and after their death limited the same in tail general to his sons 
Thomas, John, and Robert. He also willed that John, son of his second son 
John, and his heirs, should have the Manor of Helmingham. 

Thomas Alverd was seised of this manor in 1533, and a fine of it was 
levied against him by Sir Thomas Russhe and others this year.'' Thomas 
Alverd died seised the 12th Feb. 1534-5, when it descended in moieties to his 
two daughters and coheirs — Anne, married to Richard Holdich,and Margaret, 
married to William Latton. William Latton died seised of a moiety in 1551. 
In 1556 the manor was acquired by Lionel Talmach, who died in 1571, and 
from that time to the present it has remained in the family, and devolved 
with the main manor. 

In certain Chancery Proceedings in the time of Hen. VI. between 
William Wallen and Walter Boobrok and Wm. Smyth, " Re5aiyburgh's," 
" Petytes," and "Sulyardy's " are merely called messuages.^ In 1476 we 
meet with a writing whereby John Sulyard quit claim to Gilbert Deben- 
ham, John ToothyU, and others, amongst other manors the Manor of 
Helmingham. The document is dated 20th Aug. 16 Edw. IV." 

Manor of Burehall or Bury Hall or Beryshall Willowes 

AND SiDHALL. 

In the time of King John this manor belonged to the prior of Holy 
Trinity, Ipswich, who, we find, had in 1333 a grant of free warren here.^ 
In the loth Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records we meet® 
with a note of particulars taken in 1543 of the manors of " Bury Hall, 
Willowes and Overhall," for a grant of the same to Lionel Talmage. No 
doubt the grant was made, but in 1564 a third part of the manor seems to 
have been vested in Thomas Struges, for this year he had licence to alienate 
the same to Lionel Talmash. Of the manor Sir Lionel Tollemache, ist Bart., 
died seised in 1640, and it has since remained in the family, and devolved 



2 



'Feet of Fines, 31 and 32 Edw. III. 12. ''Add. Ch. 10074. 

Fine, Mich. 25 Hen. VIII. = chart. RoUs, 7 Edw. III. 38. 

^ Early Chancery Proceedings, 35-38 Hen. ^App. ii. p. 252. 
VI. 26, 543. 



HELMINGHAM. 315 

with the main Manor of Helmingham Hall. Court Rolls of this manor in 
1400, 1406, 1410, 1414, 148 1, and 1490 will be found amongst the Additional 
Charters in the British Museum/ and an extent from a Court Roll in 1481 
will be found in the same collection.'' 

One of the manors of Helmingham was certainly vested in William de 
Swillington in the time of Edw. I., and on his death about the 3 or 4 Edw. 
II., without issue, went to Margaret, his widow, for life, who remarried 
Roger de Pilkington. The estate of William de Swillington ultimately 
came to Roger Swillington, and from him passed to his daughter Margaret, 
wife of Sir John Gra, and an extent of the " Manor of Helmingham " will 
be found in her inquisition p.m. in 1430,^ and ultimately came to John 
Hopton, son of Thomas Hopton, natural son of Sir Robert Swillington, 
who probably took under some settlement. The manor is included in the 
inquisition p.m. of this John Hopton in 1479.* 



'Add. Ch. 10044, 10053, 10055, 9&12, 31 p]vj_ 8 jjen. VI. 40. 

'Add. Ch. 10080. ■•I.P.M., 19 Edw. IV. 70. 




3i6 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

HEMINGSTONE. 

|N the time of the Norman Conquest there were two manors 
in this place. One was held by Rainald of Hervey de Berri, 
being the land which Ulmar a freeman held by commenda- 
tion only, under Edric, Robert Malet's predecessor in the 
Confessor's time, viz., lOO acres of land, 6 bordars, i plough- 
team in demesne, i belonging to the men in Saxon times, 
reduced to half a team by the time of the Survey, and 2 acres 
of meadow. And there was also a freeman with 4 acres, the whole being 
valued at 20s. The King and the Earl had the soc. Of this land William 
Malet was seised on the day of his death, and later Robert Malet, his son.' 

The second manor was that of Isaac, being the land held by Leuric, a 
freeman in the Confessor's time. It then consisted of one carucate of land, 
2 ploughteams, 4 acres of meadow, wood sufficient for 2 hogs, i rouncy, 
2 beasts, 11 sheep, 13 hogs, and 7 goats valued at 20s. By the time of the 
Survey the value had risen to 24s. ^d., but the ploughteams had come down 
half and the beasts half, while the number of the sheep had risen to 20, and 
the hogs to a like figure. There were also here in Isaac's holding three 
freemen with 24 acres, formerly having i ploughteam, but at the time 
of the Survey but half a team, valued at 5s. Of this holding the King and 
the Earl had the soc' 

Isaac's holding in Hemingstone also included 4 acres in demesne, valued 
at 8^^., and a freeman with half an acre valued at id., of which the King and 
the Earl had the soc.^ 

Besides these two manors there were a number of small holdings here, 
quite a remarkable number to be enumerated in any place, a fact which is 
still noticeable later in the Testa de Nevill. Earl Alan had in demesne a 
socman with 15 acres, and i ploughteam valued at 2s. 6^.* Robert Malet 
held a freeman Etmar Leuric, predecessor of Robert Malet's mother, who 
had by commendation in the Confessor's time 4 acres, valued at ?>d., of 
which the King and the Earl had the soc. This at the time of the Survey 
Robert Malet's mother held.' 

Garenger held of Roger Bigot 5 acres, which a freeman named Farman, 
under commendation to Wicolf, formerly held. It was valued at loi., and 
the King and the Earl had the soc. All Wicolf 's land all these freemen whom 
Warenger held of Roger Bigot, were claimed by Roger de Rheims, who 
asserted that livery had been made to him before Roger Bigot. The 
Survey states that Hundred " cannot say the truth of this ; because that 
Garenger held of each of them ; but, however, that Warenger vouches the 
holding to belong to Roger Bigot's fee ; and Roger de Rheims offers to 
deny this by all kinds of law."® 

Roger de Poictou held 20 freemen with 142 acres ; one of them with 13 
acres was under commendation to the Abbot of Ely, and he had the soc. 
And there were 6 bordars, 5 ploughteams, and 2 acres of meadow and half 
a church, with 15 acres, valued at 3oi. 

Eight acres used to belong to the church, but Hervey de Berri took 
them away. To the aforesaid church belonged 6 acres, which Phin, Richard's 
predecessor, took away. The value was formerly 40s., but at the time of the 
Survey 30s. These freemen Roger held in demesne and the King and the 

'Dom. ii. 440&. ''Dom, ii. 2946. 

'Dom. ii. 4376. ^Dqjji jj ^046. 

^Dom. ii. 4376. ^Dom. ii. 338. 



HEMINGSTONE. 



317 



Earl had the soc. The holding was 6 quarantenes long and 6 broad, and it 
paid in a gelt 8^. 

There was also attached to this holding a church with three acres, 
valued at 6d. Roger also held an acre, of which Almar, the King's provost, 
had possession at the time of the Survey. It was held in the Confessor's 
time by a freeman, Lewin, with I bordar, valued at 2d., and the King and 
the Earl had the soc. Roger also had a freeman, Adelwin, with an acre and a 
half, valued at 3^., and a freeman, Brictmar, with a like quantity, valued at 
4d.' Amongst the possessions of Roger de Poictou here, according to the 
Great Survey, another small holding was of a freeman with an acre and a half, 
formerly valued at 4^., but then at 3^., which Isaac then held of Roger. 
Of this the King and the Earl had the soc.^ 

The Bishop of Bayeux held 2 freemen under commendation to Sacho, 
the predecessor of Piperell, with 10 acres, valued at 28d. The King and 
the Earl had the soc. Ralph de Savigni held of Roger Bigot, and he of the 
Bishop. The Bishop also held 2 freemen, Brunwin and Godric, with 3 
acres, valued at 6d., of which the King and the Earl had the soc. Roger de 
Bigot also held this of the Bishop.^ 

The Abbot of Ely had a socman here with 12 acres, which was later 
held by William de Scoies of the abbot. It was included in the valuation 
of Blakenham. The abbot also had Iric, a freeman, under commendation 
to the abbot, and in his soc, holding 15 acres and 2 bordars valued at 2s. 6d.* 

Humphry, son of Aubrey, had 3 freemen, with 9 acres, valued at 30s., 
of which the King and the Earl had the soc.^ Amongst the land of the 
Vavasours here we find a freeman with 20 acres in the King's soc, 5 bordars, 
and I ploughteam, valued at 5s., and a freeman, Brictuolt, with 4 acres, 
valued at 8d.^ 

Manor of Hemingstone. 

The two manors of the Domesday Survey came later into one lordship 
held by Rowland le Pettour or le Farcere, and also by Rowland and Baldwin 
le Pettour of the King by serjeanty. As late as 1330 we find Rowland le 
Fartere mentioned in connection with lands in Hemingstone and Gosbeck.' 
Camden's account of this place is this : " That in it Baldwin le Petteur 
(observe the name) held land by serjeanty for which he was obliged every 
Christmas day to perform before our lord the King of England, one Saltus, 
one Sufflatus, and one Bumbolus, or as it is read in another place, he held 
it by a Saltus, a Sufflas, and a Pettus. Such was the plain jolly mirth of 
those days. It is also observed that the Manor of Langhale belonged to this 
fee."= 



'Dom. ii. 351&, 352, 3526. 

^Dom. ii. 375&. 

♦Dom. ii. 383. 

' Dom. ii. 436. 

^Dom. ii. 446. 

n.P.M., 4 Edw. III. 2nd Nos. 44. 

'Camb. i. 443. Christopher Grove, 
of Clare Hall, Cambridge, who 
about 1718 was presented to 
the rectory of the parish, 
which he held to the time of his 
death in 1769, and was buried in 
the church of Clopton, where is the 
following curious inscription, allud- 
ing to Hemingstone's pecuUar 
tenure. As Mr. Grove was born 



about 1680, he had lived under 
eight sovereigns : — 

CHR. GROVE, A.M., AUL^ 

CLARI 

PRINCIPIBUS OCTO 

SUBJECTUS, RECTOR UBI 

OLIM 

REGIBUS ANGLIACIS 

SOLVEBAT LUDRICA TELLUS 

DE CARCERE SIMON IS, ET 

MURUS SAXEUS ABSTAT. 

The " Murus Saxeus " probably 
refers to an ancient tenement in 
Hemingstone, formerly called 
"Stone Hall," and now commonly 
" Stone Wall." 



3i8 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

The service later being regarded as not quite decent, was remitted for 
i6s. 8d. a year at the King's Exchequer. In the time of Rich. I. the manor 
was held by Jeffrey, son of Hubert de Afieton, son of Rowland, and in 1205 
by Alexander de Brompton and Agnes his wife, sister and heir of this 
Jeffrey. In the 7 John they gave 15 marks to have this manor without 
any partition to Agnes's sister, and the Manor of Langhale, in Norfolk, 
was then a part or member of this, being held by the same parties, and under 
the same tenure. 

The next lord seems to have been Edmund de Brompton, probably a 
son of Alexander.' According to the Testa de Nevill his holding here was 
valued at xli.,' and then we find the manor held in 1234 by William de 
Rus, whose daughter and heir married Richard de Brewse. 

In 1316 John de Bacun was lord. The manor was in the time of Hen. 
VI. held by Thomas Brewse and Elizabeth his wife, who in 1456 levied a 
fine against Thomas Gardener, chaplain,^ and with the Brewse family the 
manor seems to have continued for some generations, for the next we hear 
of it is when vested in Anna or Amy, wife of Sir Roger Townshend, Knt., 
who was daughter and coheir of William Brewse, of Fressingfield, and died 
25th July, 155 1, when the manor went to her great-grandson, Roger 
Townshend, son of Richard, son of John, son of the above-named Anna," 
and on Roger's death it passed to his son andheir. Sir John Townshend, of 
Rainham.' 

In 1764 the manor was vested in Richard Colville, a lineal descendant 
of the Colvilles, lords of Carlton Colvile, in Mutford Hundred, from the 
Norman Conquest, who subsequently became seated at Newton Hall, in 
the Isle of Ely, which the family held during a period of 500 years. He 
married Elizabeth, only daughter of Nathaniel Acton, of Hemingstone, 
and with her acquired this manor. 

He had issue five sons and four daughters, and died 12th April, 1784. 
In the chancel floor of Hemingstone Church is a marble ledger slab, 
with the following inscription : — 

Here lyeth the Body of 

Richard Colvile 

Late of this Parish Esqr. 

who died April 12th 1780. 

Aged 52 years. 

He was a sincere Friend and Compassionate to the Poor. 

Here also Lyeth the Body of 

Elizabeth his late Wife 
who was the only daughter of 
Nathaniel Acton 
Late of this Parish Esqr. 
by Elizabeth his Wife ; 
She departed this Life 
on October gth, 1784 
Aged 47 years. 
A Lovmg Wife, a Tender and affectionate 
Mother and a Sincere Friend. 

The manor passed to Richard's eldest son, Robert Colville, who lived 
in Wimpole Street, London. He married Amelia, eldest daughter of Sir 

'Testa de Nevill, 283, 295. +I.P.M., 7 Edw. VI. 67. 

' Testa de Nevil, 286, sub nominee Bremton. ' See Manor of Alvenham, in this Hundred. 

^ Feet of Fines, 34 Hen. VI. 14. 



HEMINGSTONE. 319 

Charles Asgill, Bart., and died 25th Sept. 1799, aged 36 years. Upon a 
mural tablet south of the altar in Hemingstone Church is a small em- 
blazoned shield : Az. a lion rampant Arg. collared with a label of three 
points, CoLViLLE \ impaling. Per fesse. Arg. and Vert, a pale counterchanged, 
over all three lions' heads erased Gu., Asgill. 
Also an inscription : — 

Sacred 
to the Memory of 
Robert Colville Esq. 
late of Newton Hall in the Isle of Ely 
and of Hemingston Hall in this county, 
who died 24th September 1799 (sic) 

Aged 36 years. 
Adorned with every manly virtue 
He was universally beloved. 
Sacred also to the memory of 
Amelia his wife 
daughter of Sir Charles Asgill Bart. 
Who died 12th July, 1825. 
Aged 65 years. 
Lovely and excellent in every relation of life, 

Gentlest in affections, exalted in mind. 
Her memory is revered by her surviving sons, 
who place this monumental tablet 
in record of their parents. 

Robert Colville left four sons, the eldest of whom, Sir Charles Henry 
Colville, resided at Duffield Hall, in Derbyshire, and married Harriet Anne, 
daughter and heir of Thomas Porter Bonell, heir to the families of Porter 
and Coupe. The other three sons of Robert Colville were Frederick, 
Augustus Asgm, Rector of Great and Little Livermere, and Robert Henry, 
in tiie 3rd Guards. 

The manor later vested in Mileson Edgar, who held in 1839. 

Hemingstone Hall is a brick mansion in the Elizabethan style, situated 
in a pleasant vale 6 miles, from Ipswich. It was erected by William 
Style, who died in 1655. It appears to have been acquired by William 
Martin, son of Capt. William Martin, R.N., and Arabella his wife, daughter 
of Admiral Sir William Rowley, K.B., which Captain William Martin was 
the son of Bennett Martin, M.D., 3rd son of Tutchen Martin, son 
of Captain Roger Martin, son of Roger Martin, of Stepney. William 
Martin, of Hemingstone, was a Captain in Elliot's horse, and married 
Sarah, daughter of Admiral Sir Joseph Rowley, Bart., and on his 
death the mansion passed to his 2nd son, Richard Bartholomew Martin, 
who, 5th April, 1832, married Juliana, daughter of John Donovan Verner, 
and on his death nth April, 1855, was succeeded by his son— present 
owner— Major-General William George Martin, J. P., who 19th May, 1865, 
married Margaret, 2nd daughter of William Strahan, of Sidmouth, by Anne 
his wife, only child of Gen. Sir George Baltell Fisher, R.A. 

Arms of Colville : Az. a lion rampant Arg. over it in fesse a label of 
3 points Gu. Of Martin : Arg. two bars Gules. 




320 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

HENLEY. 

jN the time of King Edward the Confessor a manor was held 
here by Uluric, a freeman, who had a carucate of land and 
70 acres. Attached to this manor were 2 bordars, 2 plough- 
teams in demesne, I belonging to the tenants, 4 acres of 
meadow, 3 rouncies, 2 beasts, 10 hogs, and 40 sheep. Also 
a church with 8 acres, valued altogether at 405. By the 
time of the Domesday Survey, the value had increased to 
48s., the manor being then held by Roger of Walter the Deacon, and the 
King and the Earl having the soc. The details of the belongings of the 
manor had considerably varied, for at the time of the Survey there were 
6 bordars, 3 beasts, 2 hogs, and 43 sheep, but one less ploughteam in 
demesne. There were also held by Walter the Deacon, 6 freemen with 36 
acres, i ploughteam in place of i J employed earlier, of which the value was 
7s., as against the valuation in Saxon days of 6s. 8^. This also Roger held of 
Walter the Deacon. 

A second manor was included in the possessions of this Walter the 
Deacon. It had been held in the Confessor's time by Swaine, a freeman, 
with 40 acres. There was i ploughteam, together with i bordar. The 
earlier valuation was los., but by the time of the Survey the value had 
risen to i8s. This Walter the Deacon held in demesne. "It" (whatever 
this referred to) " was one league in length and half a league in breadth, 
and it paid in a gelt zod." Both of this last manor and the preceding 
holding the King and the Earl had the soc' 

A third manor was held in the Confessor's time by Tepekin, a freeman 
under commendation to Harold, and consisted of 2 carucates. There 
were 16 bordars, 4 serfs, 3 ploughteams in demesne and 4 belonging to the 
tenants, 8 acres of meadow, wood sufficient for 6 hogs, 7 beasts, 14 hOgs, 
and 30 sheep. To the church appertained 2 acres. The whole was valued 
at £^. At the time of the Great Survey this manor was held by Eudo the 
Steward in his demesne of Roger de Oburville the tenant in chief, and the 
value had decreased to ^^3. The serfs by this time seem to have disappeared, 
and there was a ploughteam less in demesne, and also one less belonging 
to the tenants. To this manor 4 freemen having 8 acres and a team of 2 
oxen valued at 2s. were added, and of these the King and the Earl had the 
soc.'' 

There were also in this place a few small holdings. Robert Malet held 
a freeman under commendation to Stanwin with 3 acres under Harold, 
valued at M. This at the time of the Survey was held by Humfrey. 
Humfrey held of Robert Malet 3 acres which had formerly been held by a 
freeman under commendation to Stanwin under Harold, valued at ^d. The 
soc was in the abbot. ^ In the possessions of Roger de Poictou was a free- 
man holding 6 acres, valued at Z2d., of which holding the soc was in the 
King ; and a freewoman with half an acre valued at xd., of which holding the 
soc was in the King and the Earl.* The Abbot of Ely held a freeman by 
commendation and soc, having half an acre, valued at zd} 

Finally, amongst the lands of Isaac, the Domesday tenant in chief, 
were 16 acres of free land in Henley, but belonging to Hemingstone, and 
included in its valuation.® 

'Dom. ii. 427. ''Dom. ii. 3526, 353. 

' Dom. ii. 404&. 'Dom. ii. 384. 

^Dom. ii. 3056. ^Dom. ii. 4376. 



HENLEY. 321 

Manor of Henley. 

The three manors in Henley must at a very early date have gone 
hito two or merged into one, for it is not quite clear whether there were 
not two manors here in the middle of the 17th century. Roger de 
Oburville seems to have been the chief lord in the time of William the 
Conqueror, though Davy assigns this position to Roger de Pcictou. In 
the time of Kmg John the Bishop of Norwich must have had a con- 
siderable holding in Henley, a? he had then a grant from the Crown 
of the view of frankpledge and assize of bread and ale. The Bishop no 
doubt exercised manorial rights,' and in 1307 we find a grant of free warren 
to the prior of Holy Trinity, Norwich.^ 

The Davy MSS. state that John Sturmyn held the manor, and that 
in 1239 ^he same passed to his son and heir, Robert Sturmyn, also that in 
1259 John de Weyland was lord, and had a grant of free warren here. The 
lordship seems to have belonged later to the Honor of Eye, for it was 
included in the grant made of this by King Edw. HI. to his brother, John of 
Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, who died without issue. Amongst the Ministers' 
Accounts in the Pubhc Record Office for 10 Edw. HI. will be found the 
Commissioner and Receivers' Accounts of land there stated to be " late of 
John, Earl of Cornwall," in Henley.^ 

The manor subsequently became vested in Bartholomew, Lord Burg- 
hersh, for he obtained a charter of free warren in 1349* to himself, his wife, 
and their heirs, and on his death the manor passed to his daughter and 
heir,^Elizabeth, wife of Edward Despencer. A fine was levied of the 
Manor of " Henley Hall, in 1546 by William Dameron and others against 
Thomas Sekford and others,^ but the following year there appears to have 
been a grant by letters patent of confirmation by the King, and an Act 
of Parliament vesting the manor in the Dean and Chapter of Norwich, 
and amongst the Additional Charters in the Brit. Mus. will be found a Lease 
granted in 1567 by the said Dean and Canons both of the manor and the 
advowson to Thomas Gooche.^ 

Amongst the Exchequer Depositions are particulars of four different 
suits respecting the manor and the advowson, all of which show that the 
Dean and Canons were interested. The first was taken at Henley in 1611-12 
in a suit betewen Daniel Heron and John Maplesden respecting the manor, 
parsonage, vicarage, and tithes, and in it is mentioned an agreement 
between the Monastery of Norwich and Thomas Gooch touching the tithes. 

The second was taken at Codenham in 162 1 in a suit between the same 
Daniel Heron and the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of the 
Holy Trinity, Norwich, and others. It related to the town and vicarage, 
the manor and the tithes, and these are stated to have been the possessions 
of the late monastery of Norwich. Sir Richard Sorrell, John Maplesden, 
and Richard Hutchinson, vicars, are mentioned. 

The third was taken also at Codenham the same year in a suit between 
the said Daniel Heron and Andrew Sorrell ; and the fourth was also taken 
at Codenham in 1634 in a suit between the said Dean and Chapter and 
Jeremias Catlyn and others respecting the manor and parsonage of Henley 
and rectory of Barham, and deals with meets, bounds, and perambulations, 

'See Q.W. 729. * Chart. Rolls, 23 Edw. III. 3. 

"Chart. Rolls, 35 Edw. I. 68. ^Fine, Easter, 38 Hen. VIII. 

^Bundle 1094, No. 12; Bundle 1095, ^Add. Ch. 1386. 

No. 2. 

R I 



322 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

and also encroachment^ tithes, and right of way. It is in view of what has 
been said above that we are inchned to think there must have been two 
manors in Henley, for it is clear that the existing manor was vested in 
WilUam Dameron at the time of his decease in 1558, when it passed to his 
son and heir, John Dameron. 

This family had long been settled at Henley, for we find amongst the 
wills of residents here proved at Ipswich between 1444 and 1455, the will 
of Galfridus Damron,' and that of John Damron.^ 

They certainly had the hall, known as " Henley Hall." Edward 
Dameron seems to have succeeded John. He married Margery, daughter 
of Judge Clench, of Holbrook. Edmund, their son, sold the manor and hall 
to Ralph Meadows, a younger son of William Meadows, of Witnesham, in 
1630. Ralph Meadows, who was one of the chief constables of the Hundred 
of Bosmere and Claydon, and had an estate af about ;^200 a year, married 
Mary, daughter of Robert Denny, of Stonham Parva, and died in 1679. 
John Meadows held the manor about 1750, and married Mary, eldest 
daughter of Francis Brooke, of Kersey Priory. He died, and was buried 
at Henley, 4th July, 1769, when the manor passed to his son and heir, 
John Meadows, of Henley Hall, who in 1774 obtained an Act of Parliament 
enabling him to take the surname and arms of Theobald pursuant to the will 
of his aunt, Elizabeth Theobald, widow. 

He was High Sheriff for Suffolk in 1787, and married Elizabeth, daughter 
of James Morgan, of Hemingstone. In 1776 another Act was passed to 
amend the former, and also to enable John Meadows, eldest son of the said 
John (then John Meadows Theobald) and the heirs of his body to take the 
said surname and bear the arms of Theobald. 

John Meadows Theobald the elder died 24th April, 1788, when John 
Meadows Theobald, his son, succeeded. He was a Deputy Lieutenant and 
magistrate for the county of Suffolk, and married ist Mary, daughter of 
William Snell, of Needham Market, who died without issue ; and 2ndly, 
Mary Penelope, widow of Thomas Barstone, Capt. in the service of the East 
India Company, and daughter of William Strutt, of Sudbury, by whom he 
had issue a son and a daughter. He died at Claydon Hall, 4th May, 1830, 
in his 82nd year, when his only son, the Rev. John Meadows Theobald, 
succeeded him. In 1885 Mrs. Catherine Theobald held the manor. Henley 
Hall is now the residence and property of Mrs. Arthur Wolfe. 

Arms of Meadow: Sa., a chevron Erm. betw. 3 pelicans with wings 
endorsed, Or. 



' Fol. 22. " Tb. 




MICKFIELD. 323 

MICKFIELD. 

I HE Abbot of St. Edmunds held here 60 acres as a manor in 
the Confessor's time. There were 2 villeins, 3 bordars, 
I serf, I ploughteam in demesne and i belonging to the 
tenants, 3 acres of meadow, 3 beasts, 10 hogs, 27 sheep, and 
21 goats, then valued at los. At the time of the Domesday 
Survey the value was 15s., and the King and the Earl 
had the soc. AUric, a freeman, also held here 60 acres of 
which the abbot had the commendation. A villein, a bordar, a ploughteam 
and 2 acres of meadow were attached to the holding. There was also a 
church with 8 acres and half a ploughteam. This holding was formerly 
valued at los., but by the time of the Survey at 15s. The land was vested 
in the abbot by reason of Ailric having in the Confessor's time married 
one who held the land freely in the King's soc, but the abbot claimed to 
have the soc of the King's gift. Berengar was the tenant of the abbot. It 
was a league long and 8 quarantenes broad, and paid in a gelt 2i.' 

The only other holding in Mickfield mentioned in the Domesday Survey 
was a matter of 12 acres and 3 bordars held by Ralph de Savigni of 
Ranulph Peverell, tenant in chief. There was also half a church with 2^ 
acres of meadow, all included in the valuation of lUlverston (Ulverston 
Hall). The King and the Earl had soc over the whole.^ 

These lands subsequently formed the four manors of Mickfield — the 
Manor of Mickfield, the Manor of Hammonds, the Manor of Wolney Hall, 
and the Manor of Flede Hall. 

Manor of Mickfield. 

The manor held at the time of the Survey by Berengarius was in the time 
of Rich. I. vested in Roger de Hoo, for we meet with a fine between Sampson, 
Abbot of Bury, and Roger de Hoo of two knights' fees in this parish, in 
Uggeshall in this county, and Topcroft in Norfolk, which Berengarius held 
of the abbot at the time of the Survey, wherein Roger acknowledged the 
tenure, and that when the scutage was 20s. he would pay 20s., when more 
he would pay more, and when less he would pay less, and to perform ward 
to Norwich Castle. Roger seems to have been followed by William de 
Hoo, who had the advowson. William was succeeded in 12 13 by his son 
and heir, Roger de Hoo. 

Amongst the Abbreviation of Pleas in the reign of King John there is a 
finding in an action by Roger de Hoo against Bartholomew, son of Roger, 
that William de Hoo, father of the said Roger, made the last presentation 
to the living of Mickfield.^ 

By 1316 the lordship was held by Sir John de Boyland, and in 1428 
by Thomas Singleton. William Mikyefeld, who died in 1441, seems to have 
held the manor, for, according to Davy, he granted it to John Ulveston. 
This statement is borne out by the will of William " Mekylfeld," dated 
7th Nov. 1439, and proved 30th June, 1441, for he leaves by it to his wife 
his Manor of Cravens in Henham, &c., "except all that tenement called 
Middletons, certain lands lying therebi whiche I have assigned and boundid 
thereto to the value of x marks yerli, and also x acr. in Rasshefen and Redfen 
at Bregge, &c., whiche Tenement and lands my perpos and will were to 
annexe to my Maner of Blyford to my heir in exchange and satisfaccon for 

I Dora. ii. 3605. ^Abbr. of Pleas., 15 John, Trin. 2. 

^Dom. ii. 417. 



324 



THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 



the maner of Mekelfeld of my inheritance, whiche Maner of Mykelfeld I 
have graunted bi my dede to John Ulvestone and to his heirs in recom- 
pense and satisfaccon for cc marks which Thomas Ulvestone his fader 
before payid for the sayd Maner of Cravenes." 

But Davy also makes William Mekylfeld, son of Robert, lord, which 
William, he says, died in 1497. Davy next makes William Hare, who, he 
states, died in 1541, lord. 

This is probably correct, for we meet with a fine in 1535 levied by this 
William Hare and others against George Pulham and others, and this was 
no doubt on the occasion of the purchase of the manor by William Hare.' 
There was also a fine levied in 1540 of the manor and also of the advowson 
by John Ball and others against Etheldreda Hare.'' 

Davy also makes Sir Nicholas Hare, who died in 1557, lord. This too 
maybe correct, for we meet in 155 1 with a fine levied of the manor by Thomas 
Freman against the said Sir Nicholas Hare and others.' For an account of 
Sir Nicholas Hare, see Woodb ridge Ufford Manor, in Loes Hundred. 

His eldest son, Michael, held the lordship on the death of his father in 
1557, and died without issue 31st Oct. 1562 or 1563.^ The above is founded 
on Davy's statement of Sir Nicholas Hare being lord, but the inquisition 
post mortem of William Hare (who did not die, as Davy supposes, in 1541, 
but the 17th Nov. 1539), does not bear out the statement of Davy. This 
makes Etheldreda Hibberd, sister and heir of Thomas Hare, and daughter 
and heir of the said William, his heir at law,^ and the next inquisition p.m. 
we find is that of Sir Richard Hare, who died 31st Oct. 1557, seised of the 
manor, leaving Margaret, his daughter and heir aged 28.^ We are unable 
to offer any explanation, except that Davy has made a mistake, and the 
manor never belonged to Sir Nicholas Hare beneficially. 

Amongst the Harleian Rolls in the Brit. Mus. we find an exemption of the 
manor from ecclesiastical taxation in 1372.' And also the confirmation of 
a grant of the manor in 1439 amongst the Cotton MSS. in the same 
depository.'* 

Manor of Hammonds. 

This manor was held in 15 15 by John Garneys, of Kenton Hall, whose 
will is dated 20th July, 1523.' He married Elizabeth, daughter and heir 
of Sir John Sulyard, of Wetherden, Lord Chief Justice, by Margaret, his 
first wife, daughter and heir of Hungate. He had issue three sons and 
five daughters. The eldest son, Robert Garneys, succeeded to the Kenton 
Hall property, but his father during his lifetime settled the Manor of 
Hammonds in remainder on Thomas Garneys, his youngest son. 

Thomas Garneys, this son, resided at Great Bealings, and was one of 
his mother's executors in 1537. He married Margaret, daughter of Sir 
Anthony Bedingfield, of Oxburgh, co. Norfolk, who after her first husband's 
death married Brice Rokewood. A fine was levied of the manor in 1545 
by Thomas Stookes against this Thomas Garneys.'" 

Thomas Garneys died about 1566," when the manor passed to his son 
and heir, John Garneys, who also resided at Great Bealings. In 1576 a 



' Fine, Mich. 27 Hen. VIII. 

= Fine, Mich. 32 Hen. VIII. 

3 Fine, Hil. 5 Edw. VI. 

••I.P.M., Ipswich, 20th Dec. 5 Eliz. 

5 1. P.M., 33 Hen. VIII. 134. 

6 1. P.M., 4 and 5 Ph. and M, 31. 



^Haii. Rolls, A. A. 22. 
" Cott. iv. 34. 
9 Will P.C.C. 138 Briggs. 
'° Fine, Hil. 37 Hen. VIII. 
" Admon. Cur. Ep. Norw., 13th Jan. 



1566 



MICKFIELD. 325 

fine was levied of the manor against this John Garneysby Francis Mamock.' 
John married Anne, daughter of Thomas Sylesden, and died 4th July, 1583, 
at Stokesby, in Norfolk." 

The manor was then held of John Gere, of Stonham Manor, and was 
valued at £^. 13s. 4d. Nicholas Garneys, son and heir of John, succeeded 
to the lordship. He appears as " Nicholas Garnish a recusant " in the 
State Papers for 1652.^ 

He married Audrey, half-sister of Thomas Dade, of Tannington, daugh- 
ter of Thomas Dade by Anne, his wife, daughter of Richard Cornwallis, and 
died 2nd Feb. 1653,'* when the manor passed to his son and heir, John 
Garneys. He married Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Nathaniel 
Atherold, of Hasketon, and dying about 1675' was succeeded by his son 
and heir, John Garneys, of Debenham, who married Grace Bird, and died 
2nd Sept. 1706.'' 

Manor of Flede Hall. 

We learn little respecting this manor. It is probably one of the first two 
manors in Micklefield, treated of under another name. In 1764 it was vested 
in William Middleton, of Crowfield Hall, aud has since descended in a like 
course with the Manor of Lawshall, in Babergh Hundred, and is now vested 
in Lord de Saumarez. 



A Manor of Mickfield is included in the inquisition p.m. of Sir Anthony 
Hopton, who died 15th Aug. 1555.^ 

Manor of Wolney Hall. 

This manor seems to have belonged to the alien priory of Grestein in 
Normandy, and was sold by that religious house about 1347 to one Sydemams 
de Lymbei^h. It is quite possible that this manor is identical with one of 
the other manors in Micklefield already dealt with. It was vested in 1764 
in Lord Orwell, in 1855 in Sir R. S.Adair, and descending like the Manor of 
Cratfield Le Roos, in Blything Hundred, is now vested in Sir Frederick 
Edward Shafto Adair, 4th Bart. 



'Fine, Mich. 18-19 Eliz. 4 Will P.C.C. 389 Brent, proved 24th 

2 Will Cur. Ep. Norw. 23rd Feb. 1579, Sept. 1653. 

proved 14th March, 1583 ; I. P.M., s Will Cilr. Ep. Norw. ist May, 1672, 
loth Oct. 26 Eliz. (1584). proved in 1675. 

3 Cal. of Comp. 1947. « Will 1706. 

'■I.P.M., 2 and 3 Ph. and M. 62. 




326 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

NETTLESTEAD. 

N the Confessor's time, Gouty, a freeman, held 5 carucates of 
land as a manor. There were 7 villeins, 6 bordars, 4 serfs, 
5 ploughteams in demesne, 2 belonging to the tenants, 8 
acres of meadow, i mill, 27 hogs, and 36 sheep. Also a 
church with 8 acres. By the time of the Domesday Survey 
the ploughteams in demesne, which since Saxon times had 
come down to half a team, stood at i, but there was a rouncy 
in addition. To the manor Earl Ralph had added 34 freemen, over 26 of 
whom in the Confessor's time the Earl's predecessor had commendation, 
and they had 2 carucates and a half, formerly with 8 ploughteams, but then 
with 6 only, 3 acres of meadow, and a church with 70 acres and a half. 
The manor was always valued at £y. los., and the freemen at 50s. It was 
a league long and half a league broad, and paid $d. in a gelt. At the 
time of the Survey Halandlt held this manor of Earl Alan. 

A second manor was held here by Humphrey of Earl Alan, and con- 
sisted of 60 acres, i bordar, i ploughteam, and 5 acres of meadow, valued in 
the Confessor's time at los., but at the time of the Survey at 20s.' 

The manor as it existed later extended into Somersham, Willisham, 
Blakenham by the Waters, and the adjoining parishes. 

NETTLESTEAD MANOR. 

It was given to Alan, surnamed Rufus of Fergaunt (by reason of his 
red hair) son of Eudo, Earl of Brittany, in France. He came in with the 
Conqueror, and commanded the rear of the army in the Battle of Hastings, 
and for his services in this battle, and later in the siege of York, received the 
title of Earl of Richmond. He was a man of high attainments and very 
generous, being a munificent donor to the great Abbey of St. Mary, at York, 
and to other religious houses. 

He married ist Constance, daughter of King William the Conqueror, 
but had no issue, and 2ndly Ermengarde, the divorced wife of William, 
Duke of Aquitaine. He died in 1089, and was succeeded by his brother 
Alan Niger, 2nd Earl of Richmond and Earl of Brittany, who was the tenant 
of the manor in Domesday Survey. He died without issue in 1093, and 
was buried at Bury St. Edmund's Abbey. His successor was his brother 
Stephen, 3rd Earl. He married Hawise, daughter of the Earl of Guincamp, 
and had a son Alan, who succeeded him on his death 13th April, 1137. 
Alan III. was surnamed the Black or the Savage. He took an active part 
with Stephen in his contest with the Empress Maud. He was a man of 
war, and bore an unenviable reputation, being described as " a most 
deceitful and wicked person." 

He succeeded in taking the Castle of Lincoln from the Earl of 
Chester by scaling the walls at night, and made desolate the lands of the 
Archbishop of York. He married Bertha, eldest daughter and coheir of 
Conan le Grosse, Duke of Bretagne, and dying the 30th March, 1146, was 
succeeded by his son Conan le Petit, 5th Earl of Richmond, called also 
Duke of Brittany. He married Margaret, daughter of Henry, Earl of 
Huntingdon, and sister of Malcolm IV., King of Scotland, by whom he had 
an only daughter, Constance, who married ist Geoffrey Plantagenet, 4th 
son of Hen. II,, 2ndly Ranulf de Blondville, 4th Earl of Chester, but was soon 

'Doni. ii. 2946. 



NETTLESTEAD. 



327 



after divorced, and took for a 3rd husband Guy, brother of Aimery, Viscount 
of Thowars, by whom she had two daughters, the eldest of whom, AHce, 
married Peter de Dreux or Manclere, to whom on the death of her grand- 
father Conan, the 20th Feb. 1171, this manor passed, and later vested in her 
son, John de Dreux, Earl of Richmond. 

The manor was held under the Earl of Brittany by several, as we learn 
from various records. Valencia had a holding valued at £20 per annum, 
as stated in the Red Book of the Exchequer,' and Brito Balistarius had a 
carucate here of the value of ■^'j, as stated in the Close Rolls of King John"" 
while a little later we find from Testa de Nevill that Brito Phihpus de Pirie 
held one moiety and Theobald de Belhus held the other moiety of Nettle- 
stead, valued at ^20, stated to be escheat of Peter Boterel Briton.^ 

On the Close Rolls we find an acknowledgment that other land of Brito 







NETTLESTEAD. 



BaUstarius in Nettlestead is one knight's fee pertaining to the Earl of 
Brittany, as of the Honor of Richmond, and that then [12 19] he was to have 
full seisin* ; and there are two other orders on the Close Rolls in 1226 and 

1227 touching the same holding. One is an order to give seisin to Nicholas 
de Nereford of land which Brito Balistarius held in Nettlestead to sustain 
him in the King's service, during pleasure,^ and the other is a command that 
seisin of land, formerly held by Brito Balistarius, be made to Theobald de 
Belhus.'' 

In this last year, 1227, we find on the same Rolls "a pardon of the King 
to Theobald de Bellelaus " for scutage in respect of Nettlestead Manor.^ In 

1228 we find this Theobald de Bellehus mentioned in the Charter Rolls,^ and 
two years later Philip de Pyerrie,' who evidently had an interest in the 



'Inquisitions concerning serjeanty. 
"^ Close Rolls, 17 John pt. i. 7. 
3 T. de Nevill, 300. 
* Close Rolls, 3 Hen. III. pt. ii. r. 
5 Close Rolls, 10 Hen. III. 24. 



« Close Rolls, II Hen. III. 17. 
^ Close Rolls, II Hen. III. 11. 

8 Chart. Rolls, 12 Hen. III. 4. 

9 Chart. Rolls, 14 Hen. III. ii. 3. 



328 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

manor ; for the following year we meet on the Close Rolls with an order to 
allow both Philip de " Pirie " and Theobald de " Bellehus " to have corn 
in the manor.' 

In 1227, however, the manor seems to have been seized by the King, 
for he purports to grant the same to Richard, Earl of Cornwall. The 
manor was by special charter ist May, 1241, granted by Hen. IH. to Peter 
de Savoy, the queen's uncle." In 1261 Peter de Savoy having become 
nervous of the jealousy of the nobility, surrendered this manor with various 
other possessions he had been the recipient of to his nephew, Hen. III., to 
the use of Prince Edward, his eldest son, and the King confirmed the 
grant to the Prince and his heirs, and to the Kings of England for ever, but 
the Prince granted the estates (including this manor) with the consent of his 
father the King to Mi. de Yatingden and Alice de Bathonia, his wife, and 
their heirs. Bartholomew de Yatingden, the brother, inherited, and he in 
1280 settled the property on Master Henry de Branteston and Beatrice his 
wife, with remainder to Hugh de Branteston and Margaret his wife and 
their heirs. 

In 1284 John de Agneus sued as heir of that family, but did not recover. 
This is Blomefield's statement, but though it is clear this manor was in- 
cluded in the surrender of Peter de Savoy to the Crown, it does not follow 
that it was included in the grant by the Prince to Mi. de Yatingden, and, in 
fact, does not seem to have been included ; for we find the manor granted 
by Edw. I. to Robert, son of Henry de Tibetot, in consideration of his 
adherence to the King against his rebellious barons, and it appears from 
the grant which is on the Patent Rolls in 1278 that Hen. III. had in his life- 
time made a grant of a similar character to Robert de Tibetot, for the 
grant of 1278 expressly states that it is made in extension of a grant made 
by Hen. III.^ 

Robert de Tibetot had been in the Holy Land with Edw. I., and was 
high in favour with that monarch. On his accession to the throne, Robert 
was made governor of Nottingham Castle, Justice of South Wales, and 
governor of the Castles of Carmarthen and Cardigan, and in 1292 was 
appointed the King's lieutenant for Wales, where he fought and defeated 
Rees ap Meredith in a great battle. He was subsequently in the wars in 
Gascony and Scotland, like his contemporary and predecessor in this 
manor. He married Eve, daughter of Pain de Chaworth, and died in 1297.* 
He was succeeded by his son, Pain de Tibetot, who was summoned to 
Parliament on the accession of Edw. II. as a Baron from loth March, 
1307-8 to 26th Nov. 1313. 

He held the post of J ustice of the Forests beyond Trent, and was governor 
of Northampton Castle, being slain at the Battle of Strivelin in 1314.^ He 
married Agnes, daughter of William de Roos, of Hamlake, and on the 
Patent Rolls for 13 11 we find a hcence for " Payn Tybetot," to grant to 
Roger de Wortham, parson of the church of Nettlestead, the manor, 
and for them to regrant the same to the grantor and Agnes his wife and his 
heirs.^ 

In 13 13 we find from the Patent Rolls that Pain de Tibetot had trouble 
from trespassers ; for a commission was issued that year on his complaint 

' Close Rolls, 15 Hen. III. 12, 6. ••Extent, I.P.M., 26 Edw. I. 39. See 

» Chart. Rolls, 25 Hen. HI. 4, 46 Henry Close RoUs, 26 Edw. I. 6. 

m. 3. 5I.P.M., 8 Edw. II. 48. 

3 Pat. Rolls, 6 Edw. I. 11. e Pat. Rolls, 5 Edw. II. pt. i. 6, I.Q.D., 5 

Edw. II. 58, N.R., File 87, 24. 



NETTLESTEAD. 329 

that Roger de Scales, parson of the church of Baylham, Robert de Beumays, 
of Baylham, Richard de Perham, with others forcibly entered his free 
warren at Nettlestead, Bramford, Baylham, Somersham, Flowton, and 
Burstall, and hunted, took his hares and rabbits, and did other damage." 

The year of Pain Tibetot's death there is an order on the Close Rolls 
to the escheator not to meddle with the manors and advowson of Nettle- 
stead, which " Payn Tybetot " and Agnes his wife held by feoffment from 
Roger de Wortham, parson of Arkeseye, and John I.ucas, parson of Nettle- 
stead.' Agnes Tibetot, his widow, remarried Thomas de Vere, and died in 
1328,^ when the manor passed to John de Tibetot, 2nd Baron, son and heir 
of Pain. 

He served in the wars in France and Scotland, becoming governor of 
Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1346. He was summoned to Parhament from 
ist April, 1335, to 20th June, 1365-6, and married ist Margaret, 4th, 
daughter of Bartholomew, Lord Badlesmere, and coheir of her brother 
Giles, Lord Badlesmere, and 2ndly Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Aspall 
and widow of Sir Thomas Wanton. The 2nd Baron died the 13th April, 
1367,* when he was succeeded by his 2nd but eldest surviving son by his 
ist wife, Robert de Tibetot, 3rd Baron. He was summoned to Parliament 
from 24th Feb. 1367-8, to 8 Jan. 1370-1, and married Margaret, daughter 
of William Deincourt, Lord Deincourt, and on the Originaha Rolls for 1366 
we find an order to accept secuiity from him and Margaret his wife of the 
manor and advowson of the church, stated to be held of the King in chief 
by knight's service, and of 240 acres of land, 30 of meadow, 4 of pasture, 
3 of wood, I park, and £4 rent in Nettlestead, Parva Blakynham, Bramford, 
Somersham, and Baylham, and the advowson of the church of Blakynham, 
not held of the King.^ 

He died 13th April, 1372,® leaving issue three daughters, Margaret, 
Millicent, and Elizabeth, who, being minors, were given in ward to Richard 
le Scrope, ist Lord Scrope, of Bolton. He disposed of these valuable persons 
somewhat to his own advantage, for he married Margaret to Roger le Scrope, 
his eldest son, Millicent to Stephen le Scrope, his third son, and Elizabeth to 
Sir Philip le Despencer the younger. This Philip was grandson and heir of 
Sir Philip le Despencer, a younger son of Hugh, Earl of Gloucester. 

These daughters in 1385, making proof of their respective ages, had 
livery of their lands, and on the partition the lordship and Manor of Nettle- 
stead, with the Manor of Little Blakenham, fell to Sir Philip le Despencer, 
who died seised of the same in 1424.^ 

The inquisition post mortem found that Sir Philip le Despencer held 
the manor for life by the curtesy of England after the death of Elizabeth his 
wife, mother of Margery, wife of Roger Wentworth,^ and daughter and heir 
of the said Philip and Elizabeth. It showed that the property consisted of 
the site of the manor house of Nettlestead Manor, 160 acres of land, and an 
old orchard with 13s. and 4d. of rents of assize, and that the same were 
held of the King in chief, the remainder being vested after the death of Philip 
in John Loterell and others, and in the heirs of Thomas Wentworth. A 

'Pat. Rolls, 7 Edw. II. pt. ii. 2ld, i6d. ^He was a younger son of John Went- 

^ Close Rolls, 8 Edw. II. 34. worth, of North Elmsall, co. York, 

^I.P.M., 2 Edw. III. 42. grandson of John Wentworth, a 

*I.P.M., 41 Edw. III. 59. younger son of William Wentworth, 

'Originalia, 41 Edw. III. 3. of Wentworth Woodhouse, co. 

« Extent, I. P.M., 46 Edw. III. 62, 64. York, who died in 1308. 
'I.P.M., 2 Hen. VI. 31. 

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330 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

pardon for having alienated without licence will be found on the Patent 
Rolls for 1425.' 

The manor accordingly passed to Sir Philip le Despencer's daughter, 
Margery, wife of Roger Wentworth. Her first husband had been John, 
Lord Roos, of Hamlake, co. York, who was slain by the Duke of Clarence, 
22nd March, 1420-1. There was no issue of this first marriage of Margery. 

The young widow had in dower at the time of her second marriage with 
Roger Wentworth, the Castle of Helmesley, with the lordship thereto 
belonging ; the Manors of Haugh and Synton, co. York ; the Manors of 
Chilham and Walryngton, co. Kent, the Manor of Braundeston, and the 
third part of the Manor of Stoke-Danbury, co. Northampton ; also the 
Manor of Preston-Beauset, co. Bucks ; the Manor of Barkeston, called 
Pellhouse place, with two parts of the Manor of Redmylde, co. Leicester ; 
as also £62- 14s. ^d. annual rent out of the fee farm rent of the City of 
York, and eight bovates of land in Eykering, co. Notts. Roger Wentworth 
was an intimate friend of Henry, Lord Scrope, of Masham, who by his will 
dated the 23rd June, 1415, left him a legacy. Roger Wentworth died^ 
the 2ist Oct., 1452, and his widow survived until the 20th April, 1478,^ 
being then over eighty years of age, having had by her 2nd husband three 
sons and two daughters, i Sir Philip Wentworth, Knt., 2 Henry Went- 
worth, of Codham,in Essex, ancestor of Sir John Wentworth, of Gosfield, co. 
Essex, Knt., who was created a baronet on the institution of the Order, and 
3 Thomas, Rector of Barrow. 

Her will, 30 Aug, 1477, ^^ i^^ original Latin is given at length in the 
"History of Queen's College, Cambridge," published in 1867 by the 
Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Part of the will in English appeared in 
the " Testamenta Vetusta " of Sir N. H. Nicolas. She directed her burial to 
be in the chapel of the college dedicated to St. Margaret and St. 
Bernard, " on the north side of the choir, under my window of the 
said saints." Bequests are made to the altars of the churches of 
St. Botolph, Cambridge, Nettlestead, Somersham, Blakenham, and 
the Friars Minors, Ipswich. To her grandson and heir. Sir Henry 
Wentworth, she bequeathed twelve dishes, a goblet, and a basin all of silver, 
under the condition that her said heir should cause at his own proper expense 
the body of his father, Dom. Philip Wentworth, Knt., to be transferred 
to the church of Newsam, in Lincolnshire, and a marble stone to be laid 
over his body, and another marble stone to be laid over the body of his mother 
in the Chtxrch of the Order of St. Francis (Friars Minors), Ipswich. The 
terms of the will are not very clear, and the reading has been adopted which 
seems most plausible, but as the surname is not used, and both the lady's 
father and son bore the name Philip, she may possibly have referred to her 
father and not her son.* 

Sir Philip Wentworth was Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1447-8, 
when he could not have been more than 23 years of age, and at that time 
and in later Parliaments represented the county of Suffolk. He fought in 
the Civil Wars on the Lancastrian side, and is alleged to have forsaken the 
standard at the first Battle of St. Albans in 1455 ; but doubt has been 

' Pat. Rolls, 3 Hen. VI. pt. i. 12. ■♦ A portrait of Sir Henry Wentworth is in 

*His will is dated 5th June, 1452. See the possession of Lord De L'Isle 

Harl. MSS. Brit. Mus. 10. and Dudley. It was painted in 

3 Her will was proved 28th May, 1478. 1484. 

I.P.M., 18 Edw. IV. 36. 



NETTLESTEAD. 331 

thrown on this^ and if true it would certainly appear strange that he should 
have been entrusted again with the sheriff's office, and re-elected to serve 
in Parhament. He was attainted on the accession of Edw. IV., and was 
taken prisoner at the Battle of Hexham and executed the i8th May, 1464. 
He married Mary, daughter of John, Lord Clifford, and dying in the lifetime 
of his mother the manor on her death passed to Philip's son and heir, Sir 
Henry Wentworth. 

By an Act of Parliament the same year his father was executed he was 
restored in blood, and the effect of his father's attainder removed. In 1474 
he took part in the expedition into France in respect of which he received 
;f8i. i8s. for himself, four men, and 24 archers. The 17th Jan. 
1477, he was made one of the Knights of the Bath, with others of distinction, 
on the occasion of the marriage of Richard, Duke of York, the King's 
second son, with the daughter and heir of John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, 
then but 5 years of age. In 1482 he was Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, 
and mostly resided at Pontefract In 1489 he was commissioned to examine 
what number of archers, armed and arrayed, could be provided at the King's 
expense in the county of Suffolk, and to certify the number thereof, the King 
being about to send an army for the relief of Brittany ; also in 1492 he was 
commissioned with Thomas, Earl of Surrey, and others to confer with the 
King's subjects in Yorkshire about raising a supply for the maintenance of 
the fleet and army he was sending against the French. 

He married twice, 1st Anne, daughter of Sir John Say, of Broxburn, 
Hertfordshire, and 2ndly Elizabeth, daughter of John Nevill, Marquis of 
Montagu, and widow of Thomas, Lord Scrope of Masham and Upsal, co. 
York. Sir Henry's will is dated the 17th Aug. 1499, and it was proved the 
27th Feb. 1500. From the will of his wife, Elizabeth, Lady Scrope, 7th 
March, 15 18, we learn the burial place, for she provides that her own body 
be buried in the Black Friars in London, beside her first husband, Thomas, 
Lord Scrope, and adds, " I will that a tomb be made over Sir Henry Went- 
worth, Knt., late my husband, lying in Newsam Abbey in Lincolnshire to 
the value of xx^. sterling." Her will was proved the 9th Dec. 1521. The 
manor passed to Sir Henry's son and heir. Sir Robert Wentworth. 

Sir Robert was made one of the Knights of the Bath at the Coronation 
of Hen. VIII., and was High Sheriff for Norfolk and Suffolk in 1509, and 
amongst the State Papers in 1512 will be found a pardon and release to 
him in this office.' He again filled the office in 1517. In 1513 he is found 
amongst the retinue of the King at Calais, and again in 1520, when the 
Kings of England and of France met on the Field of the Cloth of Gold. 
He married Anne, daughter of Sir James Tyrrell, of Gipping, Knt., the man 
who is alleged to have been party to the murder of Edward V. and his brother 
in the Tower. 

Amongst the Bodleian Charters will be found a grant by him to Edward 
White of an annuity of 26s. 8d., charged on the manor by a deed dated the 
25th March, 1520.'' 

Sir Robert Wentworth died the 17th Oct. 1528,^ and was succeeded 
by his son and heir, Sir Thomas, created Baron Wentworth, of Nettlestead, 
the 2nd Dec. 1529. He had served in the army sent into France in 1523, 
under the command of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, and for his 
valiant conduct at the taking of Bray and MonteUcher had been knighted 

•S.P. 4 Hen. VIII. 3851. ^i.p.M., 21 Hen. VIII. 60. 

'II Hen. VIII. Bodl. Suff. Ch. 642. 



332 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

by the Duke. The year following his elevation to the peerage he sub- 
scribed the celebrated declaration sent to the Pope representing that if he 
did not confirm the divorce of King Hen. VIII. he would endanger his 
supremacy in England. In 1532 he attended the King at his interview 
with the French King at Boulogne, and in 1545 was commissioned to array 
all men able to bear arms in the county of Suffolk. Later he became a 
Privy Councillor, and was made Lord Chamberlain of the Royal Household to 
Edw. VI . He married Margaret, eldest daughter of Sir Adrian Fortescue, K.B ., 
by Anne his wife, daughter and coheir to Sir William Stonor, Knt . , by Anne his 
wife, one of the daughters and coheirs of John Neville, Marquis of Montagu. 
Lord Wentworth died the 3rd March, 1550-1,' in the King's Palace at West- 
minster, and was buried in the Abbey on the 7th March, " with much heraldic 
pomp, the children, priests, and clerks attending in surplices, and Miles 
Coverdale, the translator of the Bible, preaching his funeral sermon."" 
Lord Wentworth had seventeen children, and the manor passed to his son 
and heir Thomas, 2nd Lord Wentworth. In 1542 he was with the anny in 
Scotland under the command of the Duke of Norfolk, and in 1544 with the 
English army in France. Again in 1547 he was in Scotland fighting under 
the Duke of Somerset, where, in the camp at Roxburgh, he was dubbed 
Knight-Banneret. The same year he was elected representative of the 
county of Suffolk in Parliament. He was the Deputy of Calais under 
Queen Mary, and in command when the place was lost to the English the 
30th Jan. 1557-8. Fortunately he was retained prisoner until ransomed 
in the first year of Elizabeth, and on his return to England, upon a trial 
by his peers he was honourably acquitted the 22nd April, 1559. He 
appears as one of the lords who sat in judgment at the trial of the Duke of 
Norfolk in 1572. Mr. W. L. Rutton, in some articles in the East Anglian 
Notes and Queries,^ from which we have derived much information, says: 
" The 2nd Lord Wentworth pulled down the old house at Nettlestead, which 
his ancestor Roger Wentworth had acquired with Margery Despencer, 
and which her father had had from the Tibetots. Of the house which he 
built in place of that demolished but little remains, and that little 
modernized has now the appearance of an ordinary dwelling-house. The 
gateway of Lord Wentworth, however, stands in its original form ; archi- 
tecturally it is interesting and handsome, and as bearing an elaborate 
heraldic record, its preservation until the present is very gratifying to the 
genealogist. It has the quasi-classic features of the Elizabethan or Jacobean 
period, a semi-circular arch springing from piers ornamented with an engaged 
and fluted column on either side, above an entablature and pediment, the 
tympanum of which is carved in bold and handsome design ; and in the 
spandrils of the arch are armorial shields, the deXter of twenty quarterings, 
the sinister of fifteen. A view of the gateway taken in 1823 is found in 
' Sketches o,f the Architectural Antiquities of Suffolk, by Henry Davy,' 
1827, and the quarterings of the shields are noted in the Davy MSS.in the 
British Museum, referring to Nettlestead. The dexter shield has the 
quarterings of Wentworth, of Nettlestead, the sinister those of Wentworth, 
of Gosfield, of which latter house weie both wives of the 2nd Lord, who 
elected the gateway. As to the wives, mistakes have been frequently 

'I.P.M., 5 Edw. VI. 54, Will proved 1551. 'Henry Machyn's Diary, quoted in Dean 
The Holbein drawings belonging to Stanley's Memoirs of Westminster 

the King included a fine head of the Abbey. 

1st Lord Wentworth. Engravings 'N.S., vol. ii. 193. 
after the drawings were published 
by Chamberlain in 1792 and 1812. 



NETTLESTEAD. 333 

made, some pedigrees published in recent times showing but one marriage, 
although two are recorded in the Visitation pedigrees, in which, however, 
the Christian names are sometimes incorrect. Lord Wentworth's first 
marriage is in the Gosfield register, the second is not ; but in addition to 
the evidence of the Visitation, there is that of the sinister shield on this gate- 
way. It is true that the fifteenth quartering of the shield proving the point 
has, as noted by Davy, been defaced by a repairing mason, but in the copy 
of the Visitation of Suffolk in 156 1' are carefully drawn two shields identical 
with those on the gateway, the order of the quarterings being the same, and 
the MS. supplies the quartering defaced. The coat is that of Hamond, of 
Kent, of which family was the mother of the second wife of Lord Wen tworth. 
His wives were cousins, daughters of two brothers, Sir John Wentworth, 
of Gosfield, and Henry Wentworth, of Mountnessing, who married Agnes 
Hamond, an heiress. The second Lady Wentworth was in all probability 
living at the time the gateway was built; the first Lady Wentworth had 
died early at Calais." 

By his 1st wife, Mary, daughter of Sir John Wentworth, of Gosfield, 
CO. Essex, Knt., the 2nd Lord Wentworth had no issue, but by his 2nd wife 
Anne, daughter of Henry Wentworth, of Mountnessing, co. Essex, he had 
William, who married in 1581 EUzabeth, 2nd daughter of William Cecil, 
ist Lord Burghley, and died without issue the 7th Nov. 1582, in his father's 
lifetime. The 2nd Lord Wentworth died the 13th Jan. 1583-4,'' and was 
succeeded by his 2nd son, Henry, 3rd Lord Wentworth. He was one of 
the peers who sat in judgment on Mary Queen of Scots in Oct. 1586, and 
married Anne,^ daughter of Sir Owen Hopton, Knt., Lieutenant of the 
Tower. He died of the plague i6th Aug. 1593 at the house of Sir John 
Harrington, atBurley, co. Rutland,* and was succeeded by his eldest son, 
Thomas, 4th Lord Wentworth, under three years old at the time. At the 
age of 19 he was made a K.B., and shortly afterwards married Anne, 
daughter of Sir John Crofts, of Saxham, when he apparently went to reside 
at Toddington, co. Bedford, as heir to his great-aunt, Anne, daughter of 
Thomas Wentworth, ist Lord Wentworth, and widow of Henry Cheney, 
Lord Cheney, of Toddington, inheriting the Toddington estate on her death 
in 1614, and the mansion which Henry, Lord Cheney, had erected there. 
The 4th Lord Wentworth married 2ndly Lucy, daughter and coheir of Sir 
John Wentworth, of Gosfield, Bart. He was highly esteemed by both 
James I. and his successor, Charles I., who advanced him the 5th Feb. 
1625-6, to the dignity of Earl of Cleveland, in the county of York. Having 
served in the wars in the Low Countries, he commanded under the Duke of 
Buckingham in his expedition into France ; and afterwards, in 1642-43, 
was made captain of the band of Gentlemen Pensioners ; in which place, 
and other employments, he manifested his exemplary loyalty throughout the 
whole course of the Civil Wars, valiantly behaving himself in several 
encounters with the rebels ; particularly at the defeat of Sir William Waller 
in 1644, at Cropredy, where he took several prisoners. But on the 27th 
October the same year, at the second Battle of Newberry, having charged 

'Harl. MSS. II03. ^Her mother was Anne, daughter of Sir 
^A half-length portrait of this nobleman Edward Itchingham. 

is in the possession of Mr. Vernon * His widow afterwards married SirWiUiam 
Wentworth, and one formerly be- Pope, Bart., who after her death 

longing to Thomas Noel, Viscount was created in 1628 Earl of Downe. 

Wentworth is engraved in the Anti- 
quarian Repository, 1808, vol. iii. 

P- 59- 



334 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

the left wing of the rebels' horse, and forced them back in great confusion, 
and being immediately charged by another body, whom he also defeated, 
he advanced so far that he fell into the enemies' hands and was taken 
prisoner ; and so continued a considerable time, though it was ordered by 
the Parliament, 31st March following, that he should be exchanged for 
Colonel Jones. He was still a prisoner 9th July, 1646, when it was ordered 
that he should have liberty, on bail, to go into the country for three weeks 
for his health ; at the expiration of which he had his liberty allowed him a 
month longer ; and on the 3rd September was released, on engaging his 
honour to the Lieutenant of the Tower to surrender himself again if required 
by the Parliament. Being afterwards remanded back into custody, he 
had again his liberty allowed him for three months by order of Parliament, 
6th September, 1648, on engagement of his honour to surrender himself 
then if required. This long imprisonment could not deter him from again 
espousing the Royal cause ; for we find he accompanied his Majesty into 
Scotland in the year 1650, where soon after his arrival, he, with several 
others, were ordered to depart the kingdom, for refusing to take the Covenant. 
Notwithstanding the order, he remained with the King till the Battle of 
Worcester, where he behaved with great gallantry ; and having ralUed 
some scattered forces, charged the enemy as they were entering the town, 
which, though ineffectual, facilitated the King's escape, who would other- 
wise have been in danger of being taken in the town. He made his escape 
from Worcester upon a trotting horse, but was unfortunately again taken 
prisoner at Woodcot, in Shropshire, and sent on to the Tower of London. 
However, he lived to see the restoration of King Charles IL, and took part 
in the triumphant entry through London, at the head of three hundred 
noblemen and gentlemen. On the death of the Earl of Norwich in 1662 
he w^s again made captain of the band of pensioners ; which position he 
enjoyed till his death 25th March, 1667, in his 76th year. He was buried 
at Toddington, co. Bedford.' 

In 1645 Lord Cleveland sold the manor to William Lodge, a citizen of 
London, who held his first court 21st Sept. 1649. The loth Oct. 1659, 
Dorothy, widow of John Hall or Holt, of London, held the manor for a 
term. 

On the loth July, 1662, another WiUiam Lodge held his first court, and 
in 1699 Francis Dade, clerk, held his first court in right of his wife Sarah. 

The manor afterwards belonged to John Fuller of Ipswich, who held 
his first court 20th April, 1704, and his only daughter and heir Hannah 
carried the lordship into the family of Bradley by marrying William Bradley. 
William and Hannah were succeeded by William Bradley, who Was 
lord in 1763, and the manor then passed to Richard Philipson, who was 
lord in 1770, and held a court 15th Feb. that year. In 1790 the manor 
passed to Richard Barton Philipson, and in 1802 it was held by a lady, who 
sold to Lionel Henry Moore, son of — Moore, of Crow's Hall, Debenham, in 
1813. In the particulars of sale, 17th Aug. 1812, the annual average of the 
fines during the previous 10 years were stated to have exceeded £38. The 
net annual amount of the quit and free rents was £8. 12s. id. 

In 1814 the manor was vested in Wilham Tylney Spurdens, clerk, who 
held his first court 29th March, 1814. In 1829 it was vested in the Rev. 
John Grove Spurdens, and in May, 1838, sold to James Cudden, of the City 
of Norwich, who held his first court 19th June, 1838, at the mansion house 
called Nettlestead Hall. George Tomline subsequently acquired the manor, 

'Will 2ist Sept. 1640; admon. 2nd June, 1668, and again 15th October, 1686. 



NETTLESTEAD. 



335 



and held his first court the 3rd Jan. 1855. He died the 25th Aug. 1859, 
when the manor passed under his will to Ernest George Pretyman, M.P., of 
OrweU Park^ the present lord, who held his first court the 21st July, 1891. 

Nettlestead Hall, distant from Ipswich about 6 miles, was standing in 
the early part of the last century in its original state. It was situated near 
the church, and was surrounded by a wall, part of which is still standing. 
Of the gateway a view is given, as we have already mentioned, in Davy's 
"Architectural Antiquities of Suffolk," and on the spandrilsof the arch are 
two shields sculptured with the Wentworth arms, including which are 
twenty quarterings on each shield. The mansion has been recently modern- 
ised by its proprietor, Lionel Henry Moore. 

Page in his History of Suffolk says: "Sir Nicholas Appleyard, Knt., 
inherited a manor in this parish, in right of Agnes his wife, daughter and 
heiress of William Rokewode, Esq., of War ham, in Norfolk. He died in 
1511. His son John died without issue, and Roger Appleyard, Esq., of 
Braconash, in Norfolk, inherited as son and heir." What manor is referred 
to we cannot say. 

Kirby gives a long account of Henrietta Maria, the daughter of Thomas 
Wentworth, and the celebrated and beloved mistress of the unfortunate 
Duke of Monmouth. She succeeded to the Barony of Wentworth for want 
of male issue on the death of her grandfather, the ist Earl of Cleveland. 
He says: "She was a woman of an elegant person, most engaging manners, 
and the highest accomplishments. She resided many years at Toddington, 
in Bedfordshire, with the duke, her lover, whose attachment to her con- 
tinued to his death. The duke acknowledged just before his death to two 
prelates and other divines who attended him, ' that he and Lady Went- 
worth had lived in all points like man and wife,' but they could not make 
him confess it was adultery. He acknowledged that he and his Duchess 
were married by the law of the land, and therefore his children might 
inherit, if the King pleased. But he did not consider what he did when he 
married her. [He was married to her at the age of 14.] He said that since 
that time he had an affection for Lady Henrietta, and prayed that, if it 
were pleasing to God, it might continue. The affection did continue, and 
therefore he doubted not it was pleasing to God; and that this was a marriage,- 
their choice of one another being guided by judgment upon due considera- 
tion. When he addressed himself to the people from the scaffold, he said 
Lady Henrietta was a woman of great honour and virtue, a religious and 
godly lady. He was told by some of the divines of his living in adultery 
with her ; he said, no. For these two years last past he had not lived in 
any sin that he knew of ; and that he was sure, when he died, to go to God, 
and therefore he did not fear death, which they might see in his face. 

" Under these delusions, destructive of all order and social happiness, 
the unfortunate Duke met his death with a courage rather chivalrous than 
rational ; and Lady Wentworth, the lamented object of his passion, is said 
to have died broken-hearted in consequence of his untimely end.'" 



'She died 23rd April, 1686, and was 
buried at Toddington. By the 
Duke of Monmouth she had a son 
aged 2 year at her decease, who was 
taken under the care of Col. Smyth, 
who had been an aide-de-camp 
to the Duke. The child assumed 
his benefactor's name, and married 
Maria Julia Dalziel, granddaughter 



of General James Crofts, natural 
son of the Duke of Monmouth by 
Eleanor, daughter of Sir Robert 
Needham, of Lambeth. By her he 
had a son, Ferdinand Smyth, who 
afterwards took the name of Stuart, 
and was an active Royalist in the 
American War. 



336 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

Mr. Cobbold, of Holy Wells, Ipswichj has thus described Lady Went- 
worth and her royal paramour : — 

" Through the echoing covert the bugle resounds, 
The shouts of the chase and the cry of the hounds ; 
And, gallantly riding, the hunters are seen 
In bonnets and feathers and surcoats of green. 
The merry Lord Lovelace is leading them all 
To feast with his cousin in Nettlestead Hall. 
That cousin is wealthy, that cousin is fair. 
Is Wentworth's, and Cleveland's, and Nettlestead' s heir; 
Her smile is the sunshine of innocent youth. 
Her heart is the throne of affection and truth. 
Her dark glossy ringlets luxuriantly flow. 
Contrasting and arching her forehead of snow ; 
The fiowret of beauty and sweetness they call 
Henrietta, the lily of Nettlestead Hall. 
A stranger, in manhood and gallantry's pride, 
The merry Lord Lovelace has placed by her side : 
Forbidden his station and name to disclose. 
He calls him, ' Sir Alured, Knight of the Rose.' 
How winning his graces and courtesy prove ! 
His ardent affection soon fixes her love, 
And secretly wedlock's soft fetters enthral 
Henrietta, the beauty of Nettlestead Hall. 
What pages mysterious has fate to unfold ! 
Her husband is Monmouth, the royal and bold. 
And he whom she trusted as loyal and true 
Had previously wedded the heir of Buccleugh !" 

The whole idea is somewhat fanciful in view of the fact that the Went- 
worths parted with Nettlestead Hall in 1645, 4 years before even the birth of 
the unfortunate Duke of Monmouth, and about fourteen years before the 
birth of the so-called " lily " and " beauty " of Nettlestead Hall ! 

The 5th Dec. 1822, the " Mansion and Capital Estate called Nettlestead 
Hall, heretofore the property and residence of the Earls of Wentworth, 
containing 227 acres of land all freehold and 179 acres whereof are free from 
tithe in Nettlestead, and adjoining parishes, now in the occupation of Mr. 
Neale at the annual rent of £375," were offered for sale at Ipswich,' and 
no doubt were acquired then or later by John Welham, for we find that the 
same property was again offered for sale at Ipswich i8th Sept. 1830, " by 
order of the Executors of Mr. John Welham, deceased,'"' and was acquired 
by Major Walker, of Levington, who married the only daughter of Hercules 
Mill, of Brook Street, Ipswich. Major Walker in 1841 sold the hall to 
Edmund Snell. 

Arms of Wentworth : Sable, a chevron between three leopards' faces. 
Or. 



^Ipswich Journal, 23rd Nov. 1822. ^ If swich Journal, 28th Aug. 1830. 




OFFTON. 337 

OFFTON. 

|W0 manors appear here in the Domesday Survey. One was 
that of Hugh de Hosdene, under Roger Bigot. It con- 
sisted of two carucates of land, and had formerly been held 
by Lefchild, a freeman, under commendation to Stigand 
the Archbishop. In Saxon times there were 2 villeins, 
7 bordars, 2 serfs, 2 ploughteams in demesne, half a team 
belonging to the men, i acre of meadow, i rouncy, 2 beasts, 

12 hogs, and 40 sheep, always valued at 60s. There was also a church 

with 16 acres valued at 33^. Stigand had the soc. 

At the time of the Survey the villeins had come down to i, the plough- 
teams in demesne had, after being reduced to i, disappeared altogether, 
while the tenants had i team ; the rouncy and the sheep had also gone. 
The same Hugh de Hosdene also held of Roger Bigot 10 freemen, one and a 
half of whom, namely, Blackson and Aldwin, were under commendation to 
Bigot's predecessor, and from the others he had nothing ; they used to 
have an acre and a half of land, and the others had a carucate and 4 acres. 
Formerly there had been 3 ploughteams, but later and at the time of the 
Survey 2 teams only. One of the above, Blackwin by name, had 40 
acres of the same land, formerly valued at 30s., but at the time of the Survey 
at 20s. The King and the Earl had the soc. It was a league long and 
5 quarantenes broad, paying in a gelt 6^dJ^ 

The second manor was held in the Confessor's time by Siric, a freeman, 
with 100 acres. There were 2 bordars, and formerly i ploughteam, but 
at the time of the Survey half a team only. Also a church with 7|- acres. 
The King and the Earl had the soc, and the value had risen from 20s. to 
30s.'' Isaac was the Domesday tenant in chief. 

Besides the above two manors there were two small holdings enumerated 
in the Survey. One was amongst the lands of Earl Ralph, which Godric the 
Steward kept in hand for the King, and consisted of 2 freemen with 50 acres 
and a ploughteam. The value was in Saxon times 20s., but at the time of 
the Survey had come down to lis. ^d. " In the Church however there 
were 16 acres. "^ 

The other holding was amongst the lands of Roger de Oburville, and 
consisted of a freeman, Waldwin, under commendation to Leuric Hobbeson 
with 20 acres and a bordar, formerly having half a ploughteam. The value 
was in Saxon times 40^., but at the time of the Survey, when it was held by 
William of Roger de Oburville, 4s.* 

Manor of Offton Castle. 

The castle from which the manor derived its name is said to have been 
built by Offa, King of the Mercians, who flourished from 755 to 796, and has 
been so long since entirely demolished that not a vestige save a mound of 
earth surrounded by a moat remains. This manor was that held in the 
Confessor's days by Siric the freeman, and at the time of the Survey by 
Isaac, from whom it had come down by the time of Hen. III. to William 
Talbot.' It then fell to the Crown, and was granted in 1257 to William de 
Valence, the King's brother,* and Roger de Luneday or Loveday. The 

'Dom. ii. 337. "Dom. ii. 404&. 

= Dom. ii. 437&. =7. de N., 286. 

^Dom. ii. 285. *Pat. Rolls, 41 Hen. III. 12, 15. 

TI 



33B THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

latter had a grant of free warren here in 1280/ and died seised of the lordship 
in 1287/ when he was succeeded by his son and heir, Richard de Luneday. 

It does not appear, however, that the Talbots had lost their hold on 
the manor, for it seems to have been held in the time of Edw. I. by William 
Talbot ; possibly it had become divided, which idea is sanctioned by the 
fact that in 1320' a fine was levied between John, son of John de Bohun 
and Richard, son of Herbert Hacoun, of Magna Melton and Anne his wife, 
by which the fourth part of the lordship became settled on John de Bohun.* 

The following year a fine was levied of another fourth part of the manor 
by the same John de Bohun against Thomas Duraunt and Margaret his 
wife,^ and in 1325 of the remaining fourth part (John de Bohun having 
himself one original fourth) by the same John against Roger de Tyche- 
bourne and Katherine his wife (Ralph, son of William Loveday, app. clam).^ 

This John de Bohun seems to have been succeeded by his son and heir 
John de Bohun. William de Bohun,'' created Earl of Northampton 17th 
March, 1337, ^^'^ Constable of England, held the manor and died seised of 
it 16th Sept. 1360.^ In 1385 it was granted to Sir John de Dengrave, Knt., 
John Knyvet, and others, no doubt by way of settlement, for on his father's 
death in 1360 we find the manor passing to his son and heir, Humphry de 
Bohun, 2nd Earl of Northampton, who died 17th Jan. 1373,' leaving two 
daughters and coheirs, when the manor probably passed in a like course with 
the manor of Elmsett, in Cosford Hundred, to the year 1728. The manor was 
assigned in pourparty to Hen. V.'° and the following year confirmed to the 
Queen Dowager." It is clear that in 1428 Queen Catherine, wife of Hen. V., 
held the manor. She died in 1438." 

In 1483 Henry de Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, appears to have 
held the manor, both under a grant from the Crown, and by virtue of his 
claimed descent from Humphry de Bohun, Earl of Hertford. He was one 
of the noblemen instrumental in the elevation of Rich. III. to the throne, 
and was made Constable of England by that monarch. Later, he entered 
into a conspiracy to place the Earl of Richmond upon the throne, and took 
up arms with this object, but finding himself deserted by those who had 
promised support, he sought an asylum with an old servant of the family, 
by whom he was betrayed and delivered up to his enemies. It is with 
regard to this servant, Humphrey Banaster, that the King made the well- 
known remark, while refusing the traitorous servant any reward, " that he 
who could be untrue to so good a master would be false to all others." 
The Duke was beheaded shortly afterwards in the market-place at Salisbury, 
in 1483, without any trial. He had married Catherine, daughter of Richard 
Widville, Earl of Rivers. 

The manor passed through the Glanville family, as did the manor of 
Elmsett. Page, writing in 1847, ^^Y^ ^^^ manor " has since been purchased 
by the trustees of the learned and pious Dr. Andrews, Bishop of Ely, who 
devised ;f4,ooo to buy an estate for the benefit of poor men and boys, 
clergymen's widows, and prisoners.'^ This possibly refers to the other 

' Chart. Rolls, 8 Edw. I, 20. ^ Feet of Fines, 19 Edw. II. 32. 

« I. P.M., 15 Edw. I, 33. ? See Manor of Elmsett, in Cosford Hundred 

3 Both Davy and Page err in stating the ^I.P.M., 34 Edw. III. 85. 

fine to be in 1285. This error is sl.p.M., 46 Edw. III. 10. Will 12th Dec. 

derived from Blomefield, who states 1372 ; proved 18th May, 1373. 

this under his account of Great '°R.P., ii. 137. 

Melton, in Norfolk. "lb. 1876. 

4 Feet of Fines, 14 Edw. II. 16. "I. P.M., 11 Hen. VI. 43. 

5 Feet of Fines, 15 Edw. II. 14. '3 Hist, p. 612. 



OFFTON. 339 

Manor of Offton, as we find that like the Manor of Elmsett in 1855 and in 
1885 James Cuddon, of Norwich, was lord; and in 1896 William Sidney 
Calvert, of East Bergholt, who is still the owner of the manor (1907). 

Manor of Offton Monks. 

This was the lordship of Lef child in the Confessor's day and of Hugh de 
Hosdene under Roger Bigot in the time of the Conqueror. We find that 
the church belonged to the priory of the Virgin Mary, and St. Andrew, 
in Thetford, of the gift of WiUiam Bigot, son of Roger, the founder of that 
monastery, and Steward of the Household to King Hen. I., and Hugh de 
Hosdene and Maud his wife, gave them 30 acres of their demesne, probably 
this manor, with the tithes belonging to this church in their possession. 

The priory of St. Mary continued to hold the lordship until the dissolution 
of the religious houses, when this manor with the rectory and the 
advowson of the vicarage as parcel of the possession of the above monastery 
were granted to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, in 1540.' Ministers' Accounts 
of the manor when held by Thetford Priory in i8th Edw. H. will be found 
in the Public Record Office." 

In 1547 however the manor was granted by the Crown to John, Earl of 
Warwick, who the same year had licence to alienate the same to James 
Ryvett. It does not seem to have continued long in Ryvett's hands, for 
we find that in 1574 Thomas, Lord Wentworth,^ had licence to alienate the 
manor to Robert Barker and John Barker, jun., who were called upon to 
show their title to both manor and church in 1577.'' From these the manor 
passed to John Barker, a burgess of Ipswich, about 1588. He married 
1st WiUemina, daughter and heir of John Bomart, of Brabant, merchant, 
by whom he had three sons and two daughters — i , Sir Robert ; 2, J ohn, a colonel 
in the army; 3, WiUiam. Margery, one of the daughters, married Thomas 
Clench, son and heir of John Clench, one of the Justices of the King's 
Bench; and the other, Thomasin, married Sir Robert Gardiner, Knt., Lord 
Deputy of Ireland. John Barker's 2nd wife was Anne, daughter of Henry 
Hudson, alderman of London, and widow of George Stoddard, by whom he 
had a daughter, Abigail, married to Sir Edward Waterhouse, of Halifax, 
CO. York, Knt. On John Barker's death about 1609 the manor passed to 
his eldest son, Sir Robert Barker, who represented Ipswich in Parliament in 
1593. He was made a K.B. at the coronation of James I., and married 
1st Judith, daughter of George Stoddard, of Mottingham, co. Kent, by 
whom he had issue John and Robert, who both died without issue, and a 
daughter, Anne, married to Sir Arthur Jenney, of Knottishall, Knt. 

His 2nd wife was Susanna, daughter of Sir John Crofts, of Saxham,by 
whom he had a numerous family. John Barker, on the death of his father. 
Sir Robert, 8th Oct. 1618, succeeded to the lordship, and was created a 
baronet 17th March, 162 1-2. He resided at Grimston Hall, in Trimley, 
and married Frances, daughter of Sir John Jermy, K.B., of Brightwell, and 
died in 1652,^ leaving issue Sir John ; Thomas, who married Elizabeth, 
daughter of Sir Dudley Carleton, of Imber Court, in Surrey; and Robert, 
who died without issue. 

' S.P. 942 (43). his son and heir. I. P.M., 5 Edw. VI. 

* Bundle II27, No. 4. 54. 

^ There seems to have been a manor here ^19 EHz. Memoranda Rolls, Pas. Rec. 

called Houston, of which this Rot. 82. 

Thomas's father died seised the 3rd ^ Will nth May, proved 17th June, 1652. 

March, 1550, leaving this Thomas 



340 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

Sir John Barker, the eldest son, was Sheriff of Suffolk 1654-5, and 
married Winifred, daughter of Sir Philip Parker, of Arwater, Knt.j and died 
in 1664,' leaving issue Sir Jermy, Sir John, and Robert. Sir Jermy, 3rd 
Bart., succeeded, and died without issue in 1665, and was buried at Trimley, 
when the manor devolved upon his brother and heir. Sir John Barker, 4th 
Bart., who married Bridget, daughter of Sir Nicholas Bacon, K.B., of Shrub- 
land Hall, and removed to Ipswich, making that place again the residence of 
his family. He served for Ipswich in several Parliaments in the time 
of Charles II., James II., and William and Mary. He died in July, 
1696,' leaving issue Sir William Barker, 5th Bart., his only son, who also 
served in Parliament for Ipswich and Thetford in the reign of Queen Anne, 
and in the reign of Kings Geo. ist and 2nd, as one of the knights of the shire 
for Suffolk. 

He married twice, ist Mary, only daughter and heir of JohnBence, of 
Heveningham, and granddaughter of the famous Sir Thomas Glemham, 
Governor of Carlisle ; and 2ndly, 9th Feb. 1731, Anne, widow of Edward 
Spencer, of Rendlesham, and dying 23rd July, 1731,^ was succeeded by his 
eldest son by his first marriage. Sir John Barker, 6th Bart., who married, 
28th Oct. 1740, Alice, only daughter of Sir Comport Fytch, 2nd Bart., of 
Mount Marbrook, in Eltham, co. Kent. The 6th Bart, died 7th June, 1757/ 
when the manor passed to his son and heir. Sir John Fytch Barker, 7th Bart., 
of Sproughton, who married Lucy, daughter of Sir Richard Lloyd, of Hintle- 
sham, and died 3rd Jan. 1766,^ without issue, leaving his estate to his widow 
for life, with remainder to George Rich Savage Nassau, youngest son of 
Richard Savage Nassau, of Euston. The letters of administration to the 
estate of Sir John Barker's widow are dated Feb. 1785. 

Arms of Barker : Party per Fesse, nebule, Az. and Sable, three Martlets 
Or, on a canton. Ermine, a martlet.* 



'Will proved 1664. swill, loth Dec. 1762, proved 26th Feb. 

"Will proved 1697. 1766-7. 

3 Will proved Aug. 1731. " See Bacon's Annals of Ipswich. Pages 

■• Will proved 14th June, 1757. 243 and 360. 




RINGSHALL. 341 

RINGSHALL. 

[HERE were five manors in this place at the time 01 the 
Domesday Survey, two being held by Roger Bigot and two 
by William, the brother of Roger de Otburville, and the 
remaining manor by Robert, Earl of Moretaign, as tenants 
in chief. One of the manors of Roger Bigot had been held 
in the Confessor's time by Lewin, a freeman under com- 
mendation to the Abbot of Ely. It consisted of a carucate 
of land and 80 acres, 2 villeins, i serf, 2 ploughteams in demesne, later only 
I, I ploughteam belonging to the tenants, later only half a team, 4 acres 
of meadow, half a church with 15 acres, 3 rouncies, 4 beasts, 20 hogs, and 
40 sheep, all valued at 30s. 

By the time of the Survey the details had varied considerably, and the 
value had been increased to 50s. At that time there were 4 bordars, the 
serf had disappeared, the ploughteams in demesne from i had again risen 
to 2, but of the tenants there was but half a team, the rouncies had increased 
by I, the beasts had gone up to 18, the hogs to 40, the sheep to 100, and 
there were then 30 goats. 

The second manor of Roger Bigot had been held by a freeman named 
Grim in the Confessor's time, with 100 acres, under commendation to the 
Abbot of Ely. There were attached to the manor 4 acres of meadow, a 
ploughteam and a half, i rouncy, and 3 beasts, valued at 20s. 

By the time of the Great Survey there was no ploughteam, but the 
value was placed at 30s. Both of the above manors were held by William 
de Burnoille of Roger Bigot, and the King and the Earl had the soc. 

This William de Burnoille also held under Bigot what in earlier days 
had been held by four freemen. Lewin, Roger Bigot's predecessor, had com- 
mendation over two, who were called Frodo and Leuric. The other 
two, called Lustwin and Edric, were not under his commendation. These 
freemen had 50 acres and ploughteam, and an acre of meadow, all valued at 
I2S., and the King and the Earl had the soc. It paid in a gelt 15^^. It was 
a league long and half a league in breadth.' 

One of the two manors of WiUiam, brother of Roger de Otburville, 
was held in the Confessor's time by Godwi, a freeman, with a carucate of 
land and 40 acres, i villein, 2 ploughteams, 4 bordars, 6 acres of meadow, 
wood sufficient for 8 hogs, half a church with 12 acres, 4 rouncies, 13 hogs, 
60 sheep, and 32 goats, valued at 47s. Of this land, one under commenda- 
tion to the Abbot of St. Edmunds held at this time 11 acres. At the time 
of the Survey there was only half a ploughteam and the rouncies had come 
down to I. Of the manor Hugh then held 40 acres, valued at 5s., included 
in the above valuation. 

The second of the manors was held in Saxon times by a freeman named 
Uluric with 80 acres, i ploughteam, and 4 acres of meadow, valued at 20s. 
By the time of the Survey the value was but 8s., and the manor was held 
by Fulco of William, the King and the Earl having the soc. Amongst the 
same tenant in chief's holdings were two small ones here which he held in 
demesne. One consisted of 18 acres and also formerly half a ploughteam, 
valued at ^s., and had been held in the Confessor's time held by a freeman 
named Trumwin, and the other of 5 acres valued at i2d,., which had in 
Saxon times been held by Edric, a freeman under commendation to 
William de Otburville's predecessor.'' 

I Dom. ii. 336. * Dom. ii. 405. 



342 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

A fifth manor here was held in demesne by Robert, Earl of Moretaign, 
and consisted of 30 acres, which Ulmar, a freeman, had formerly held with 
2 bordars, 2 acres of meadow, and i ploughteam, valued at los. In this 
holding was included the twelfth part of a church in Battisford. The 
only other holding mentioned m the Survey was 4 acres, formerly held by a 
freeman named Booty, valued at lod. It was held in chief by Earl Robert, 
and the King and the Earl had the soc' 

Manor of Ringshall. 

This was the manor of Saxon Lewin and of Norman Bigot, held under 
the latter at the time of the Survey by William de Burnoille or Burnaville. 
He continued to hold in the time of Hen. II., for we find that William de 
Burnaville and Alice his wife gave the church and tithes of this parish to 
thepriory of the Virgin Mary and St. Andrew in Thetford, and KingHen. II. 
at the request of Hugh Bigot confirmed the said gift. The manor passed 
from the last-mentioned William to his son and heir. Sir Geoffrey de Burna- 
ville, and from him to his son and heir. Sir Robert de Burnaville. Sir 
Robert was succeeded by his son and heir Robert, and he by his son and 
heir, John de Burnaville, who in turn was succeeded by his son and heir, 
Sir William de Burnaville.'' 

In 1363 we learn that the heirs of Richard de Burnaville held here, and 
in 1381 Simon Blyant probably held the manor, for he did homage " for 
land formerly held by Robert de Burnaville." John Blyant next held, and 
died in 1523,^ when the manor passed to his son and heir, Richard Blyant, 
who died without lawful issue. 

The manor was then acquired by Sir Richard Gresham, Knt., who died 
in 1548,-^ when it passed to his son and heir. Sir John Gresham, Knt., who 
died in 1560, when it went to his brother and heir, Sir Thomas Gresham. 
Amongst the Chancery Proceedings in the time of Queen Elizabeth will be 
found an action by William Gresham against Francis Cuddon and Thomas 
Cuddon for relief against an alleged fraud relating to this manor, of which 
Sir Thomas Gresham was then stated to be seised for life with divers 
remainders over.^ 

Sir Thomas Gresham died in 1579, when the manor vested in William 
Gresham, who in 1583 had licence to alienate to William Rowe and Thomas 
Byarde, who sold to John Barker and others in 1587.* John Barker died 
in 1609, and the manor passed to his eldest son. Sir Robert Barker,^ K.B., of 
Grimston Hall, Trimley St. Martin, and on his death passed to Sir Thomas 
Barker, his eldest son by his second wife. Sir Thomas Barker resided at 
Ringshall Hall, and sold the manor to his youngest brother, WiUiam 
Barker, who was an alderman of the City of London. 

On the death of William Barker the manor passed to his son and heir, 
WiUiam Barker, of Bocking Hall, who was created a Bart, by King Charles II . in 
1676. He married Elizabeth, sixteenth child of Sir Jerome Alexander, Knt., 

' Dom. ii. 2916. 5 ,C.P. i- 364. 

' See Manor of Burnaville, in Levington, in ^ We meet with a fine, however, of this 

Cobieis Hundred. manor in 1588 levied by Robert 

^ See Ringsfield Manor, in Wangford Hun- Barker and others against WiUiam 

dred, and Manor of Campanis, in Gresham and others. Fine Hil. 30 

Cotton Hempnal, Hartismere EUz. 

Hundred. ^See Manor of Offton Monks, in this 

■'See Manor of Bavents, in Combs, in Stow Hundred. 

Hundred. 



RINGSHALL. 343 

one of the Justices of the Common Pleas in Ireland. Sir William died 
in Ireland, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir William Barker, 2nd 
Bart., of Bocking Hall. He married Catherine Teresa (eldest daughter and 
coheir of Samuel Keck, one of the Masters in Chancery), who died in 1736, 
and was buried in the parish church of Ringshall. 

Sir William survived until 1746, and the hall and manor were in 1750 
sold to Peter Lefebure, and on his death in 1753 passed to his widow Elizabeth. 
In 1761 the hall and manor were vested in William Watson and Jonathan 
Watson,' of Bury St. Edmunds. This last gentleman was an F.R.S., a 
Justice of the Peace, Deputy Lieutenant for the County, and major of the 
East Suffolk Militia \ and in 1783 sold the hall and manor to Wilham 
WoUaston, of Finborough Hall, who held his first court 19th Oct. 1784, 
and died in 1797. It is quite possible that he sold the manor before his 
death, certamly in 1786 he offered it for sale with four freehold farms in 
Ringshall and one in Eattisford of the yearly rent of ;f 400, with a large wood 
containing 50 acres. ^ As, however, William WoUaston is said to have 
destroyed the manor house in 1788, he probably did not sell to Alexander 
Adair till this year. The manor was subseqiiently acquired by Alexander 
Adair, who held a court 22nd May, 1822, and died m 1834, when it passed 
to his son, William Adair, who held courts 29th Oct. 1835, and 21st Sept. 
1836, and the manor has since devolved in the same way as the Manor of 
Cratfield le Roos, in Blything Hundred, and is now vested in Sir Frederick 
Edward Shafto Adair, 4th Bart., of Flixton Hall, Bungay. 

Arms of Watson : Barry of six, Argent and Gules, three crescents, 
Ermine, on a chief of the second, two lances in Saltier, their points broken 
off. Or. 

Extracts from Court Rolls, 1545 to 1553, will be found amongst the 
Additional Charters in the Brit. Mus.* 

There is a fine of " Ringssele " Manor and advowson, which may refer to 
this place. It was levied in 1348 by Sir Thomas de Hemenhale and Agnes 
his wife against Sir John de Heveryngge and W^iUiam de Hemenhale and 
William de la Mote.^ 

Manor of Charles Hall. 

This was the lordship of the Saxon Grim and of William de Burnoille 
under Roger Bigot at the time of the Domesday Survey. 

In 1270 it was vested in Thomas Charles, a member of the Bentley 
family of this name, who had a grant of a market and fair here at that date,^ 
and free warren in 1285.' Amongst the Abbreviation of Pleas there is a 
finding in 1288 that Ranulph de la Wade de Rudgessale, William and 
Nicholas, his sons, trespassed on the free warren of this Thomas Charles, at 
Ringshall, and the King had ;^ii for forfeiture in the said warren.^ In 
1301 the manor was conveyed by deed poll from Sir William Charles to his 
son. Sir Edward Charles, Knt.,^ who was succeeded in the lordship by his 
son and heir, William Charles. In 1339 William Charles, son of the last 
named William Charles, granted the reversion of the manor to Sir John de 
Stonore, Knt. The next we hear of the manor was that Henry Wentworth 
died seised of it in 1482, when it passed to his son and heir, Roger Wentworth. 

' He was buried at Ringshall 20th Nov. « Chart. Rolls, 51 Hen. HI. 45. 

1808, aged 84. 7 Chart. Rolls, 13 Edw. I. 164. 

"See N. and Q. 8th Ser. xi. 188. s^bbr. of Pleas, 16 and 17 Edw. I. Maj. 
^I'pswich Journal, r2th Aug. 1786. record, Mich. 35. 

+ Add. Ch. 10098. 9 See Manor of Kettleburgh, in Loes 
5 Feet of Fines, 22 Edw. HI. 22. Hundred. 



344 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

After vesting in one John Boxted it passed to Sir Richard Gresham, and on 
his death in 1548 went to his widow Isabella for life. 

She died in 1565, when the manor passed to Sir Richard's son, Sir 
Thomas Gresham, and from that time has passed in the same course as the 
main manor.' 

Charles Hall is a common farmhouse, with a chimney of early date and 
a moat. 

Manor of Rawlins. 

This was no doubt one of the manors of William, brother of Roger de 
Othurville, and probably held by Brian, son of Aunsel, who held half a 
knight's fee in Ringshall in the time of Hen. IH.^ In another place in the 
Testa de Nevill he is referred to as Brian de Ringeshall, and as holding his 
half knight's fee of Margaret de Ripariis.^ 

We find the manor subsequently vested in Sir Richard Gresham, Knt., 
who died seised in 1545, and it has since apparently devolved in the same 
course as the main manor, being now vested in Sir Frederick Edward 
Shafto Adair, 4th Bart. In 1588 a fine was levied of this manor by Robert 
Barker and others against William Gresham and others.* 

Manor of Rockell's or Willisham and Rockells. 

This was the other manor of William, brother of Roger de OtburviUe, 
or Auberville, the Domesday tenant in chief. We have information as to 
the descent from the Conquest to the time of Edward I. in the Quo Warranto 
Rolls when Richard de la Rokele and Robert de Willasham claimed view 
of frankpledge and assize of bread and beer in Ringshall. They then showed 
that WilUam de DaundeviU or Auberville or OtburviUe came over with the 
Conqueror. He is no doubt the same with the Domesday tenant in chief. 

From this William the manor descended to William and Jordan as 
heirs. William died without issue, and his moiety of the manor passed 
to his brother and heir Peter, who gave the same to William de la Rokele, 
the father of Richard de la Rokele, while the other moiety of the manor, 
that of Jordan, descended to his daughter and heir, Matilda, and from her 
to her son and heir, Robert, and from him to his son and heir, Ralph, and 
from him to his son and heir, Ralph, and from him passed to his son and 
heir, Robert de Willakesham,' who is said to have held one fee of Margery 
de Ripariis.^ The share of William de la Rokele passed to his son and 
heir. Sir Richard de la Rokele. 

We find in Ringshall a chapel belonging to the priory of Norwich, 
settled on this cell at Hoxne in 1294, when it was returned by the oath of 
Luke, parish chaplain of Ringshall, that this was a free chapel belonging 
to the prior of Norwich Cathedral, who assigned it to his cell of St. Edmund 
at Hoxne ; that it was endowed with 32 acres of land and two parts of all 
the tithe, corn, and hay of the ancient demesne of Sir Richard de la Rokele 
and Robert de Wyllakysham and their tenants in Ringshall, the tithes 
being then of 30s. per annum value, all of which were confirmed by the 
Bishop. In 1313 Robert Guer, chaplain, had the whole assigned to him 
for life, paying 3,0s. per annum, serving the chapel thrice a week, and keeping 
the houses in repair. 

' Fine, Hil. 30 Eliz. ♦ Fine, Hil, 30 Eliz. 

»T. de N., 286. 5Q.VV. 728. 

ST. de N., 290. ^T. de N. 290. 



RINGS HALL. 345 

Amongst the ancient deeds in the Court of Chancery preserved in the 
Pubhc Record Office is a grant by John, son of Elias de Ochotte, of 
Ryngeshall, to this Sir " Richard de Rokele," Knt., of land in the parish 
of Ringshall in a field called " Bydwodescroft," in Ringshall, between the 
road leading from Brecete to Needham, and the town-house of the prior of 
Hoxne. The deed is dated at Ringshall, Tuesday the morrow of the Circum- 
cision, 6th Edw. II.' 

Sir Richard de la Rokele was succeeded by John de la Rokele, and we 
subsequently find the Rokele share vested in John de Copeldyke, who died 
in 1327. In 1359 a fine was levied of the manor by Gilbert de Illeye and 
Johanna his wife against John de Copeldyke and Johanna his wife, the 
John being probably a son of the last-mentioned lord.' 

The Davy MSS. say that in 1428 the manor vested in W. Burys. In 
this same year, 1428, we also find the share of Ralph Wylasham vested in 
one Thomas Cook. A century later the manor became vested in Sir Richard 
Gresham, who died seised in 1548, when it passed to his widow Isabella 
for hfe, and on her death in 1565 vested in Sir Richard's son, Sir Thomas 
Gresham. 

Amongst the Calendar to Pleadings of the Duchy of Lancaster in the 
time of Philip and Mary, an action will be found between the King and 
Queen and Thomas Gresham as to a claim to relief and knights' fees in 
Ringshall.^ 

Sir Thomas Gresham died in 1579, from which time the devolution of 
the manor is apparently identical with the main manor, being now vested in 
Sir Frederick Edward Shafto Adair, 4th Bart. 



'468. ^D.L., Cal. Pleadings, N.D., 23. 

'■ Feet of Fines, 33 Edw. III. 28. 



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346 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

SOMERSHAM. 

|N the time of the Confessor a manor was held here by a free- 
man named Lefson, under commendation to Leuric Hobbson, 
predecessor of Roger Bigot, who held the manor at the time 
of the Domesday Survey. The manor consisted of 30 
acres. There was always i villein, and in Saxon times 
and later half a ploughteam, but at the time of the Survey a 
team of 2 oxen only. To the manor belonged the fourth 
part of a church with y^ acres. The whole was valued at 8s., and the King 
and the Earl had the soc. At the time of the Domesday Survey William 
held it of Bigot.' 

Another manor here was in the Confessor's time held by Leof child in 
demesne. It consisted of i carucate of land, with i ploughteam and an 
acre of meadow, valued at 30s. The Domesday tenant was Roger de Obur- 
ville.* 

A third manor was held in the Confessor's time by Ulwin, a freeman, 
with 60 acres and a ploughteam, valued at 20s. The manor was at the time 
of the Survey held by Isaac, and the King and the Earl had the soc. In 
Isaac's holding also was included a freeman named Coleman, with 5 acres 
valued at 20^., of which the King and the Earl had the soc.^ 

The only other holdings in Somersham mentioned in the Survey were 
4 socmen, with 30 acres and i ploughteam, valued at 5s. in Saxon times and 
los. in Norman, held for the King by Roger Bigot ;* and a freeman, Uluric 
by name, with 12 acres valued at 4s., enumerated amongst the " Invasions 
upon the King's right." The entry in the Survey is not particularly lucid. 
It says: " Of him (that is, of Uluric) was Ralph the Earl seised when he 
forfeited his holding ; and his predecessor had the commendation in Nettle- 
stead. On his holding Ulmar the King's provost entered, and he gave 
security. Roger Bigot is his bail, and (the freeman) is in the King's hand. 
The King and the Earl (have) soc."^ 

Manor of Somersham. 

This was the manor held by William de Burnoville of Roger Bigot at 
the time of the Domesday Survey. In 1198 Geoffrey de Amberley held the 
lordship.* In 1273 a moiety of the lordship was held by Robert de Tibetot 
and John de Bathon,^ and in 1286 the manor seems to have been vested in 
Joan, wife of John de Bohun, and passed in 1316 to their son and heir John 
de Bohun. The manor then no doubt descended in the same course as the 
Manors of Offton Castle, in Offton, in this Hundred, and Elmsett, in Cosford 
Hundred, to the year 1728. 

In 1328 William de Bohun, Earl of Northampton, had a grant of free 
warren here.* The manor was granted by Hen. VI. in 1428 to Katherine, 
Queen of England, widow of Hen. V., who presented to the Church of 
Somersham in right of the lordship. 

Both manor and advowson were included in the grant referred to in 
the account of the Manor of Offton Castle in 1483 to Henry Stafford, Duke 
of Buckingham. From him the manor passed to his son and heir, Edward 
Stafford, restored by Hen. VII. to the Dukedom of Buckingham and other 
honours. 

' Dom. ii. 337. 5 Dom. ii. 4486. 

" Dom. ii. 404. * T. de N. 287, 290. 

3 Dom. ii. 437. 'H.R., ii 193. 

'•Dom. ii. 281&. 8 Chart. Rolls, 2 Edw. III. 60. 



SOMERSHAM. 347 

He was, however, beheaded, and the manor forfeited in 1521. Later 
the manor was held by Thomas, Lord Wentworth, and on his death, 3rd 
March, 1550,' passed to his son and heir, Thomas, Lord Wentworth. From 
him it passed to Henry Loid Wentworth, but all the Wentworths seem to 
have held as lessees only of the Crown, for amongst the Duchy of Lancaster 
Calendar to Pleadings" we find an action by this Henry Wentworth, 
" Queen's lessee," against Adrian Smith, under-farmer, and John Hawes, 
steward, touching freehold and copyhold intermixed of this manor and the 
Manors of Elmsett and Offton. Amongst the State Papers in 1669 is a 
petition by Anthony Hammond to the King to confirm certain leases made 
by the trustees of the Queen Mother in 1661 and 1663 of Somersham Manor 
and Park, valued at £450 a year, to Mr. Cornwallis in trust for Sir Kenelm 
Digby, and under whom the petitioner claimed, also of the custody and 
herbage and pannage of the park to the Earl of Suffolk, from whom Sir 
Kenelm purchased it for £2,500.^ 

The Davy MSS. however, state that in 1649 the lordship was vested 
in Richard Glanville, rector of Elmsett,* and from this time to the time of 
Edward Reeve, of Ardleigh, in Essex, in 1826, it passed in the same course as 
the same Manor of Elmsett, in Cosford Hundred. Before 1855 the manor had 
vested in James Sparrow, of Gosfield, co. Essex, for this year it was in 
his daughter Martha, widow of Rev. Newman John Stubbing, patron 
and rector of Somersham and vicar of Offton and Higham, who had 
died in 1835. Mrs. Stubbing died in 1861, at the age of 93, and 
was buried at Somersham, when the manor passed to her son and heir, 
the Rev. Newman John Stubbing, vicar of Offton, who died unmarried 
in 1881, when the manor passed to his sister and coheir, Martha Anne 
Stubbing, married to WiUiam Hardy Travis, of Hill House, East Bergholt, 
surgeon, and on her death passed to her son and heir, the Rev. James 
Travis, rector of Manton, co. Rutland. James Travis married Margaret 
Wames, and died in 1899, when the manor passed to and is now vested in 
his trustees. 

Amongst the Calendar to Pleadings of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1532 
will be found an action by the King against Richard Coke and John Smyth 
in which the title of the Duchy to Somersham Manor and Park is disputed. 
It has a plan of the boundaries.^ 

Arms of Stubbing : Gules, a cinquefoil, between three cross crosslets, 
Argent. 

Manor of Woodhouse. 

All we learn of this manor is that it was held by Thomas, Lord Went- 
worth, in the time of Edw. VL, and on the death of Lord Wentworth in 
1550-1 passed to his son and heir Thomas, Lord Wentworth. The manor 
was probably held by the Loveday family in the 13th century, for we find 
a Robert Loveday having a grant of free warren here in 1270^ and a " Roger 
Lunedaye " in 1280.^ In 1319 a grant of free warren in Somersham was 
made to John de Freston,' and in 1357 to Roger Larcher.' 



'I.P.M., 5 Edw. VI. 54. 5 24 Hen. VIII. 10. 

'33 Eliz. 7, 1591. "Chart. Rolls, 54 Hen. III. 6. 

3 State Papers, 1669, p. 259. 'Chart. Rolls, Edw. I. 20. 

'* There is an order in the Journals of the ^ Chart. Rolls, 13 Edw. II. 23. 
House of Lords for him to be ^ Chart. Rolls, 31 Edw. III. 7. 
inducted to the Church of Somer- 
sham in 1646. H.L.J, viii. 623. 




348 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

STONHAM. 

S the different Stonhams are not distinguished in the Domes- 
day Survey it will be necessary to give the entries under this 
one general heading. Eleven manors are enumerated, four 
amongst the lands of Roger de Poictou, four amongst those 
of the Bishop of Bayeux, one amongst the lands of Roger 
Bigot, one of the Abbot of St. Edmunds, and one amongst 
the lands of Juichel the priest. 
Roger de Poictou's manors were, first, one consisting of 2 carucates 
which in the Confessor's time had been held by Uluric the thane. Roger 
held it in demesne at the time of the Survey. To it were attached 3 bordars, 
4 serfs, 2 ploughteams in demesne, formerly 3 belonging to the tenants, but 
at the time of the Survey 2 teams and a half only, 5 acres of meadow, and 
wood sufficient for 60 hogs. The Survey, however, mentions that the third 
part of this wood lay in Tunstall in Wilham de Varenne's manor in the 
Confessor's time, but it was then held by Roger de Poictou, having been 
previously held by Raymond Girald. To this manor also belonged the 
third part of a church with 5 acres, 2 rouncies, 30 hogs, formerly 5 beasts, 
and 30 goats, but at the time of the Survey g beasts, 60 sheep, and 50 goats, 
formerly valued at loos., but then at £6, the King and the Earl having the 
soc. 

A second manor was held with 2 carucates, being the land which had 
in the Confessor's day belonged to Ulmar the thane, under commendation 
to Harold. It had 8 villeins, 3 bordars, 4 serfs, 2 ploughteams in demesne, 
and a mill in Claydon, also formerly 3 ploughteams belonging to the tenants, 
then reduced to 2|-,and 5 acres of meadow, with wood sufficient for 40 hogs. 
To this manor pertained the third part of a church, with 4 acres, 2 rouncies, 
and 60 sheep, formerly valued at loos., but then at £6, the King and the 
Earl having the soc. 

The third manor, which likewise consisted of 2 carucates, had in the 
Confessor's day been held by Alflet under commendation to Harold. There 
were 2 villeins, 3 bordars, 4 serfs, 2 ploughteams in demesne, formerly 
3 belonging to the tenants, but at the time of the Survey 2 teams and a half 
only, 5 acres of meadow, wood sufficient for 60 hogs. Also the third part 
of a church with 5 acres, i rouncy, and at the time of the Survey 60 sheep. 
The value in Saxon times was loos., but like the other two manors this 
amount at the time of the Survey had been raised to £6. The King and 
the Earl had the soc over the whole. 

The fourth manor held in demesne by Roger de Poictou consisted of 
40 acres, and had been held in the Confessor's time by Ulwin, a freeman 
under commendation to Ulmar, who had been Roger de Poictou's predecessor 
in title. To this manor were attached 3 bordars and 2 acres of meadow, 
formerly also a ploughteam, but at the time of the Survey only half a team. 
This was included in the above valuation. Here also Roger de Poictou held 
another 20 acres, which had belonged to a freeman called Ulfret, under 
commendation to Alflet, Roger's predecessor in title. It was also included 
in the above valuation. The township in which these manors were was a 
league long and half a league broad, and paid in a gelt y^d. 

The only other holding of Roger de Poictou here was what a freeman 
Aluric had held, namely, 12 acres, over whom the Abbot of St. Edmund 
had half the commendation, the other half being attached to the King's 
Manor of Mendlesham. The Survey states that the abbot held this last 



STONHAM. 349 

moiety of the commendation until Artald seized it. This also was included 
in the above valuation/ 

Of the four manors of the Bishop of Bayeux, one consisted of 20 acres 
held in the Confessor's day by a freeman named Lewin, under commenda- 
tion to Edric of Laxfield. There were 2 bordars, i ploughteam^ 2 acres of 
meadowj 2 churches with 3 acres, formerly valued at 5s. 4^., but at the time 
of the Survey at los. 8^., when it was held by Roger Bigot of the bishop, 
and the King and the Earl had the soc. The Survey mentions that of this 
manor Robert Malet was seised, and his father on the day of his death. 
Probably connected with this manor was a holding of 20 acres, 2 bordars, 
and an acre of meadow held by a freeman Aluric under commendation 
to the predecessor of Richard, son of Earl Gislebert, formerly of the value of 
4s., but at the time of the Survey of 8s., the King and the Earl having the 
soc. Also two freemen holding 2 acres valued at 6d. ; and a freeman, Lewric, 
under commendation to Lewin, holding 10 acres, and formerly with half a 
ploughteam, of which the value in Saxon times was 35., but at the time of 
the Survey 2s. only. Also 11 freemen with 52 acres, 10 of the men being 
under commendation to Robert Malet's predecessor, and the eleventh, called 
Sperun, being under commendation to Burchard in the Confessor's time, 
and having 8 acres of the said land. To this holding were attached 4 
ploughteams in former days, but 2 only at the time of the Survey, when 
the value was 30s., as against the earlier valuation of 20s. These lands, 
held by the Bishop of Bayeux in chief (?) were a league long and 6 quarantenes 
and a half in breadth, and paid in a gelt 2od., the King and the Earl having 
the soc. 

The second manor of the bishop consisted of 60 acres, which had been 
held by Uluric, a freeman under commendation to the Abbot of Ely. There 
were in the Confessor's time 4 bordars, 2 ploughteams in demesne, i belong- 
ing to the tenants, 3 acres of meadow, and a church with 7^ acres, valued at 
15^. The total value of the holding in the Confessor's time had been 40s., 
but it had come down at the time of the Great Survey to half. There had 
been depression all round, for the bordars were but 3, the ploughteams had 
come down half, for there was but i ploughteam in demesne, and but half a 
team belonging to the men. 

The third and fourth manors of the bishop had been held in the Con- 
fessor's time by Alvol the priest and Godwi, freemen under commendation 
to Sachs, the predecessor of Ralph Pipperell. 

They consisted of 40 acres, 3 bordars, formerly 2 ploughteams in demesne, 
always half belonging to the tenants, and an acre and a half of meadow. 
Also a church with 2 acres, valued at ^d. Both these manors were in Saxon 
times valued at 30s., but at the time of the Survey the holding was valued at 
I2S. only. The bishop had two other holdings here at the time of the Survey, 
but not held as manors. One was of 26 freemen under commendation to 
Sachs, except one, Wichingby name, with 142 acres. Formerly there had been 
7 ploughteams, but at the time of the Survey there were 5 only, and an acre 
and a half of meadow. The former valuation had been £4, but the Domes- 
day value was but 405. ^d. The last of the bishop's holdings was of a free- 
man with 3 acres, valued at xod.'' 

The ninth manor in Stonham was held by Roger Bigot. It consisted 
of 60 acres held in the Confessor's time by a freeman named Brown, and at 
the time of the Survey was held by Warenger of Bigot. In Saxon times 

' Dom. ii. 3506, 352. ^Tiom, ii. 374J, 375&. 



350 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

to this holding belonged 2 ploughteamSj 2 acres of meadow, wood sufficient 
for 80 hogs, 8 hogs, 80 sheep, and 23 goats, and some parts of a mill, valued 
at 20S. By the time of the Survey the valuation had gone up to 40s., but 
the ploughteams had varied from 2, having come down to i, and then gone 
up again to 2. Wood, however, had been felled, for there was but suffi- 
cient for half the number of hogs it was capable of sustaining in Saxon times. 
There were also 8 beasts and 27 more hogs. 

Roger Bigot also had here 5 freemen with 16 acres and i ploughteam, 
over whom the aforesaid Brown had formerly commendation. At the time 
of the Survey there was but half a team, and the value was 3s., the King and 
the Earl having the soc. Bigot also had 17 freemen, who had been added to 
the last-mentioned manor in King William's time, from whom Roger Bigot's 
predecessor had nothing. The following is the entry in the Survey as to 
these freemen : " These freemen Roger de Rheims claims to have held as 
of his fee before Roger Bigot had received lands in Suffolk. That the 
Hundred witnesses that Roger Bigot received them first as of his fee ; and 
of this Roger de Rheims offers denial by every kind of law." 

They had 69 acres. Of these freemen 5 were under commendation to 
the predecessor of Ranulph Pipperell, that is to say, to Sachs. Formerly 
there were 6 ploughteams, but at the time of the Survey only 3, and an 
acre and a half of meadow, valued at i6s. The King and the Earl having 
the soc' 

The tenth manor belonged to the Abbot of St. Edmund, and was 
formerly held by Ulwar, a freeman in the soc of the King and the Earl, 
who had commendation. It consisted of 60 acres, 4 bordars, i ploughteam 
in demesne, i acre of meadow, and wood sufficient for 5 hogs, i rouncy, 2 
beasts, and 16 sheep, valued at los. Ailbold held the land of the abbot, 
who had it in pledge for the sum of two marks of gold by the grant of 
Engelric when the Englishmen redeemed their lands.^ 

The eleventh manor was that of Juichel the priest. It had been held 
by Aluric, a freeman under Edric, Robert Malet's predecessor, as a manor, 
and Robert was seised thereof. It consisted of 90 acres, 6 bordars, i serf, 
a ploughteam and a half in demesne and half a ploughteam belonging to 
the tenants, 2 acres of meadow, wood sufficient for 10 hogs, 7 beasts, formerly 
I hog and 8 sheep, but at the time of the Survey 15 hogs and 40 sheep. 
Also 5 freemen with 24 acres, and half a ploughteam, and a church, with 
16 acres and half a ploughteam, formerly valued at 20s., but at the time of the 
Survey at 35s. Juichel also had here a freeman, with 24 acres, and formerly 
I ploughteam, valued at 5s., of which the King and the Earl had the soc. 
The holding of Juichel (?) was a league long and 3 quarantenes broad, and it 
paid in a gelt y^d. Juichel also held a church herewith 20 acres, which 9 
freemen gave for their souls. ^ 

The remaining holdings in Stonham were amongst the lands of the King 
in the keeping of Roger Bigot, 12 acres held in the Confessor's day by a soc- 
man, over whom the Bishop of Bayeux at the time of the Survey held, and 
Roger Bigot held of him. But the Sux'vey adds, " this socman could not 
give up his holding."" Amongst the lands of Earl Ralph which Godric the 
Steward had the keeping of for the King, were 5 socmen here with 18 acres 
(the soc of which was in Bosmere Hundred) belonging to Mendlesham. 

'Dom. ii. 337&. ^Dom. ii. 438. 

'Dom. ii. 3605. ♦Dom. ii. 282. 



STONHAM. 351 

There was a ploughteam and half an acre of meadow belonging to this 
holding, which was valued at 3s.' 

Amongst the lands of Earl Alan were 5 freemen held by Ulmar, with 
48 acres, and they held 12 acres belonging to the Earl's demesne. To the 
holding appertained 2 ploughteams, wood sufficient for 6 hogs, an acre of 
meadow, all valued at 12s. To this last mentioned land, which Humphrey 
held belonged in demesne, 28 acres, part woodland and part clear land, which 
Godmar held in the Confessor's time. At the time of the Survey, Roger 
Bigot held it, and Garenger of him, the Great Record adding, " and he " 
(presumably Garenger) "held it in like manner when Ralph made forfeiture." 
Earl Alan had also here a freeman with 2 acres of land and an acre and 
a half of wood, valued at 7^.' Amongst the lands of Robert Malet mention 
is made of 3 acres, valued at td., which in the Confessor's time had been held 
by a freeman, Ailmar.^ 

Amongst the lands of Roger de Poictou we find a freeman, Leuric, 
under commendation to the Abbot of Ely, holding 6 acres, valued (apparently 
with 3 acres in Coddenham) at x%d., and a freeman named Godwin holding 
ID acres and a team of 2 oxen under commendation to Wisgar, the predeces- 
sor of Richard, son of Earl Gilbert, valued at 4s. Of this freeman Raymond 
Gerald was seised, and Roger de Poictou held him. The Survey says : 
' ' Roger de Rheims held by right of the first livery ; and the Hundred witnesses 
that to him livery was first made." 

The two remaining holdings in Stonham were those of Richard, son of 
Earl Gislebert, being of 5 acres and wood sufficient for 4 hogs,^ and 
Ranulph PevereU, which was the fourth part of a church with 7 acres and 
a half, valued at 15s.® 

In the Survey we meet with Estena, which has been supposed to be 
East Stonham ; probably this was Earl Stonham, and there are six various 
entries under this heading amongst the possessions of Roger de Rheims, 
two being expressly specified as being held as manors. The first of^these 
was what had been held in the Confessor's time by a freeman named 
Ailmar under Edric, Robert Malet's predecessor, by commendation only, 
namely, 60 acres with i bordar, i ploughteam, 2 acres of meadow, wood 
sufficient for 30 hogs, and a church with 14 acres, valued at 20s. By the 
time of the Survey the ploughteam had disappeared, and the value come 
down to 15s. 

The other manor had been held by a freeman named Alwin in the King's 
soc. It consisted of go acres, i villein, i bordar, 2 ploughteams in demesne, 
decreased to i at the time of the Survey, 4 acres of meadow, wood sufficient 
for 20 hogs, formerly valued at 40s., but at the time of the Survey at 25s. 
Of this the King and the Earl had the soc. Roger de Rheims' s other 
holdings were : First, a freeman with 60 acres and i bordar, and i villein, in 
Saxon times i ploughteam in demesne, and i belonging to the tenants, but 
at the time of the Survey only half a team in place thereof , an acre of meadow, 
and wood for 20 hogs, formerly valued at 20s., but then at 15s., the King and 
the Earl also having of this holding the soc. Secondly, a freeman with 30 
acres and i bordar, and wood for 10 hogs. Attached to this holding in Saxon 
times was a ploughteam, but at the time of the Survey only half a team. 
Of this holding also the King and the Earl had the soc. Thirdly, 8 

'Dom. ii. 285. *Dom. ii. 352. 

* Dom. ii. 2946. 5 Dom. ii. 393. 

»Dom. ii. 305. «Dom. ii. 417. 



352 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

freemen with 30 acres. Two of the freemen were under commendation to 
one who was himself under commendation to Robert Malet's predecessor, 
and Wilham Malet, his father, had seisin thereof. Altogether these free- 
men had a ploughteam and the holding was valued at 5s. The Survey says : 
" All this Milo holds of Roger, and he took over 4 horses, now i." In 
Saxon days there had been 3 beasts, 14 hogs, and 36 sheep appertaining to 
this holding, but at the time of the Survey the sheep had gone, and the 
hogs had increased to 36. It (probably the township) was half a league 
long and half a league broad, and paid in a gelt 6d. The Survey adds : 
" Others held the lands therein. The King and the Earl have soc." 

The last holding of Roger de Rheims enumerated here was of 12 free- 
men with 40 acres in the soc of the King and the Earl, formerly having 2 
ploughteams, but in Domesday times one and a half only, and an acre of 
meadow, valued at 15s.' 

There is an entry in the Domesday Survey of a place called Pacheton, 
in Bosmere and Clay don Hundred. This is probably Pekham or Peccham, 
near Stonham Aspall, and amongst the lands of the Bishop of Bayeux we 
find three freemen under King Edward with 24 acres, i ploughteam, and an 
acre of meadow, valued at 8s., and also another freeman under King Edward, 
and a half freeman holding 5|- acres, valued at i2d.^ 

Manor of Stonham Aspall al. St. Antegan. 

This was one of the manors of Roger de Poictou at the time of the 
Survey. In 1275 Peter de Nereford claimed free warren here. A little 
later we find the loidship vested in Sir William de Nereford. This Sir 
WUliam,^ who was summoned as a Parliamentary Baron in 1297, by a deed 
without date recites that he had granted to Sir John de Aspal and Sir Roger 
his brother this lordship, with the advowson, to be held of them and their 
heirs ; he revokes this grant and regrants the same to Roger le Bigot, Earl 
of Norfolk, and his heirs. The witnesses were Sir Thomas de Weyland, 
John Lovetot, Petei de Bedingfield, and others. 

We find on the Patent Rolls reference to two actions against this Sir 
William de Nereford. They are both in 1273, one by Thomas de la Gutter 
touching a tenement here,'* and the other by Thomas de la Guttere and Agnes 
his wife, against him and Edmund de Nevill, also touching a tenement 
here.' 

Sir William de Nereford died in 1301, but the revocation of his original 
grant does not seem to have been effectual, for the lordship passed to the 
Aspals,and Roger de Aspal died seised of it in 1312,^ and the manor hence- 
forth carried his name. He was succeeded by his son and heir. Sir Robert 
de Aspal, who died about 1326, and he by his son and heir. Sir Robert,'' 
who married Alice, daughter of Sir Hugh Crepingham, and was succeeded 
by his son and heir. Sir John de Aspal. In 1335 Sir John de Aspaleand 
Elizabeth his wife, who was a daughter of Dame Alice Gray, levied a fine of 
the manor and the advowson of Stonham Church against WiUiam le Hetherst, 
parson of the church of Wattisfield, Peter de Berton, parson of the church 
of Stonham, and Robert Giffard.^ Sir John de Aspal had a grant of free 
warren here in 1337 and 1348.' 

'Dom. ii. 422, 423. sj.pM^ 2 Edw. II. 64. 

^Dom. ii. 375. 7 Add. MSS. 19115. 

5 See Wissett le Ros Manor, in Blything *Feet of Fines, 9 Edw. III. 10. 

Hundred. 9 Chart. Rolls, 11 Edw.III. 4; 22 Edw. III. 

* Pat. Rolls, 2 Edw. I. 4. 14. 

5 Pat. Rolls, 2 Edw. I. gd. 



STONHAM. 353 

Sir John dc Aspal's daughter and heir Katherine married ist Sir Ralph 
Hamenhale, 2nd]y Sir Robert de Northwode, and 3rdly John Spencer ; and 
in 1408 Katherine and her third husband released the manor to Sir Edmund 
de Thorp and Joan his wife, daughter and heir of Sir Robert Northwode 
and the said Katherine Aspall. No doubt in support of this arrangement 
a fine was levied which we meet with in 1409. It was of both the manor and 
the advowson, and by Sir Edmund Thorp and Joan his wife against John 
Spencer and Katherine his wife/ 

On Sir Edmund de Thorp's death his widow Joan remarried Robert 
de Scales, 4th Baron Scales. He died in 1396, and she died in 1415, and 
left the manor to her son and heir, Robert de Scales, 5th Baron Scales, with 
remainder to Lady Catherine Savage, her daughter, wife of Sir Arnold 
Savage, of Kent, remainder to her daughters Joan and Isabel by Sir Edmund 
Thorp. The Lady Joan had also the lordship of Cowling in right of her 
mother, Katherine. This Robert, 5th Lord Scales,'' was one of the lords in 
Parliament who in 1400 voted for the safe custody of the late Rich. II., and 
took to wife Joan, daughter of William, and sister of Thomas, Lord Bardolf. 
His 2nd wife was Elizabeth — •, who survived him and remarried Sir Henry 
de Percy, of Athol, Knt. His will bears date 12th May, 1400, and dying 
on Thursday, the 7th December following, was proved iith Oct. 1402.' He 
appointed Elizabeth his wife executrix, bequeathed his body to be buried in 
the church of the Priory of " Blakeburgh," to the prioress 13s. 4^., and to 
every nun therein 6s. 8^. Robert, his son and heir, 6th Baron, was 
6 years of age at his father's decease. Ralph, Earl of Westmoreland, 
had the wardship. 

Robert de Scales died unmarried ist July, 1417. He was killed with 
Lord Darcy and Sir Edmund de Thorp at the siege of Lover's Castle, in 
Normandy, in the march of Hen. V. from Caen towards the city of Rouen. 
Thomas, 7th Lord Scales, was 21 at the time of the death of his brother 
Robert, and on ist May, 1421, was retained by indenture to serve the King 
in the wars of France and to be at Dover, as related in the account of 
Worlington Manor, in Lackford Hundred. He left a daughter and sole 
heir, Elizabeth, then married to Sir Henry Bourchier, Knt., 2nd son of 
Henry Bourchier, Earl of Essex. Elizabeth subsequently married Anthony 
Widville, son and heir of Richard Widville, Earl of Essex, Lord 
Treasurer of Edw. IV., and father of Elizabeth, his Queen. In 1464 Anthony 
Widville and Elizabeth his wife conveyed by fine the manor to Simon 
Baxter, as stated in the account of Worlington Scales Manor, in Lackford 
Hundred. Notwithstanding this it is not clear that the manor did not on 
the death of Thomas, Lord Scales, 25th July, 1460, without leaving male 
issue, revert under the limitations in the will of his grandmother to the 
representatives of her daughters. The Davy MSS. state that as early as 
1433 the manor passed to " Catherine, Lady Savage, wife of Lord Arnold 
Savage, and daughter of Joan, Lady Scales, and in 1474 it was vested in 
Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Frederick Tilney, widow of Sir John Hum- 
phrey Bourchier, Knt., and wife of Sir Thomas, son and heir of John, Lord 
Howard." That the manor was vested in Elizabeth, daughter of Frederick 
Tilney, in 1474, is clear if Elizabeth's will is to be relied on. Frederick 
Tilney was the son of Philip Tilney and Isabel, one of the three daughters 
of Joan de Northwode by her 2nd husband. Sir Edw. de Thorpe. Elizabeth. 

' Feet of Fines, 10 Hen. IV. 9. ^ Nicolas says " 31st Oct. 1403." 

°See Manor of Worlington, in Lackford 
Hundred. 

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354 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

finally Duchess of Norfolk, made three wills, in the first of which, made when 
the widow of Sir Humphrey Bourchier, she actually names this manor. 
Her first will, made in 1472, is as follows: "I, Elizabeth, daughter and heir 
of Frederick Tylney, son and heir of Philip Tylney, sometime Canon and 
Residentiary of Lincoln, late wife of Humphrey Bourgchier, Knt., son and 
heir of John Bourgchier, Lord Berners, Knight, in pure widowhood, 28th 
Feb. II Edward IV., 1472. All my manors, lands, &c., whereof John Say, 
Knight, and others are enfeoffed in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Lin- 
coln, York, and Stafford, to my use to perform my will. I will that my 
feoffees give all my said manors, lands, &c., excepting Stonham Aspale, 
Est Bergholt, and Cowling, in Suffolk, to me only, or to me and the person 
with whom I shall marry for term of our lives without waste, with the 
reversion in the feoffees, &c., to Margaret and Anne, my daughters, cl. 
each." 

Her second will, when the wife of Thomas Howard, son and heir 
apparent of John, Lord Howard, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, is as follows : — 

" Dame Elizabeth Howard, daughter and heir of Frederick Tylney, 
late the wife of Humphrey Bourgchier, Knight, son and heir of John Bourg- 
chier, Lord Berners, Knight, and now the wife of Thomas Howard, son 
and heir of John Lord Howard, Knight, made and by me openly declared 
at London 8th May, 1472, of all the manors, lands, &c., in Norfolk, Suffolk, 
Cambridge, Lincoln, Yorks, and Stafford, whereof Sir John Say, Knight, 
and others are feoffees : I will that they convey to my foresaid beloved 
husband, Thomas Howard, after my decease, for his life only, half dele 
of them, and the other half to the like uses; I will that if John Bourghchier, 
my son, die without issue during my and my husband's life, then Margaret 
and Anne to have none of the qI. given by my other will." 

Her third will, made after her husband became Duke of Norfolk, is as 
follows : — 

" Elizabeth, Duchess of Norfolk, 6th November, 1506. My body to 
be buried in the nun's quire of the Minories without Aldgate in London, 
nigh unto the place where Anne Montgomery is buried. I will that no more 
than XX. torches shall be used at my burial, and my month's end ; also that 
no dole or money be given at either of those solemnities, but instead thereof 
I will that c marks be distributed to poor folks, viz., to every poor man and 
woman in the parish of Whitechapel and Hackney viiid. ; whereas I had the 
marriage and wardship of Gilbert Pynchbeke, son and heir of Thomas 
Pynchbeke, which I bought of the Earl of Oxford. And I constitute Sir 
Robert Lovell, Knt., Sir Edmund Jermy, Knight, Mr. Thomas Cosyn, Doctor 
of Divinity, Mr. John Talbot, Doctor of Physick, and Mr. William Holme, 
clerk, my executors." 

This will was proved 28th June, 1507. 

The Duke is said to have held the manor for his hfe, but as he did not 
die until 1524 this could not have been the case, for shortly after the death of 
the Duchess we find the manor vested by purchase in Sir William Capel, 
Knt., 2nd son of John Capel, of Stoke Nayland. Being a second son, he 
entered into business in London, and by his steadiness and perseverance 
amassed a considerable fortune. The Court viewed his success with some 
degree of envy, and Sir Richard Empson and Sir Edmund Dudley found 
sufficient support under the colour of justice to extort from him £1,600 for 
the Exchequer, and finding their victim still accumulating more wealth 
they attacked him the second time for a similar sum, upon the pretence that 



STONHAM. 355 

he had during his mayoralty of the City of London not properly exerted 
himself against a man accused of coining money. He steadily refused this 
second demand, and was committed to the Tower in 1509, from whence he was 
released by the death of Hen. VII., who had too freely countenanced the 
arbitrary measures against the wealthy merchant, though strangely 
enough he had conferred upon him the honour of knighthood 17th Dec. 
1485, eight years after he had served the office of Lord Mayor. In 1492, 
15 12, and 15 14 we find him sitting in Parliament for the City of London. 
He made a considerable addition to St. Bartholomew's church, behind the 
Royal Exchange, by building a chapel or chantry, whence people have with 
some reason conjectured that his residence was in that parish, and another 
strong circumstance seems to point out the very spot where his house stood, 
which was called Capel Court, but before the Fire of London was, as is 
asserted, one house, called Capel House. The name of this place has been 
changed, however, from time to time, and for a long period was known as 
Ship-yard, or Black Swan Court. 

He married Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Arundel, Knt., of Lan- 
herne, in Cornwall, ancestor of Lords Arundel of Wardour and Trerise, and 
was buried in a chapel he himself had built on the north side of St. 
Bartholomew Church, near the Exchange, in London. His death occurred 
6th Sept. 15 15,' and the manor passed to his son and heir, Sir Giles Capel. 

He resided at Raines Hall in Essex, and was knighted for his valour at 
the sieges of Theronenne and Tournay and the Battle of the Spurs. He 
accompanied the expedition to France in 15 19, and with others challenged 
all gentlemen there in feats of arms for 30 days. He was Sheriff of Hertford 
and Essex in 1529, and attended the King on his expedition to Calais in 
1532, and thence to Boulogne, where in the way at Sadingfield, the French 
King and the King of England met. He married ist Mary, daiighter of Sir 
Richard Roos, younger son to William, Lord Roos, of Belvoir, and on her 
death without issue, married Isabel, daughter and eventually coheir of Sir 
Thomas Newton, son of Sir John Newton and Isabel his wife, daughter and 
heir of Thomas Chedders, and had issue Sir Henry Capel, his son and heir, 
who married Anne, daughter of George Manners, Lord Roos, but died 
without issue in his father's lifetime, who, on his death in 1556 was succeeded 
by his 2nd son, Edward, knighted in 1560, and the same year made Sheriff 
of the Counties of Hertford and Essex. He married Anne, daughter of Sir 
William Pelham, of Laughton, in Sussex, Knt., ancestor of the Duke of 
Newcastle, by whom he had issue two sons, Henry and Giles, and four 
daughters. Sir Edward Capel died in 1577, and was succeeded by his elder 
son. Sir Henry Capel, who married ist Mary, daughter of Anthony Browne, 
Viscount Montagu, and 2ndly Catherine, daughter of Thomas Manners, 
Earl of Rutland, and dying in 1588 was succeeded by his son and heir. Sir 
Arthur Capel, Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1592. He married Margaret, 
daughter of John Grey, Lord Grey of Pirgo, brother to Henry, Duke of 
Suffolk, and had eleven sons and nine daughters. It is from Gamaliel, 
D.D., the loth son, that Capel Loffts, referred to in the account of Troston, 
in Babergh Hundred, is descended. Sir Arthur died in 1632. His eldest 
son, Henry, married Theodosia, sister of Edward, Lord Montagu, of 
Boughton, and of Henry, Earl of Manchester, by whom, amongst other 
issue he had a son Arthur, who succeeded his grandfather. Arthur, the 
grandson, held his first court 6th April, 1633. He served in Parliament in 

'I. P.M., 7 Hen. VIII. 48. 



356 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

1639, and also in the Long Parliament. He was created a Baron of the 
Realm by the title of Lord Capel, of Hadham, 6th August, 1641. Notwith- 
standing the raising troops at his own cost in defence of his Sovereign, and 
fighting valiantly in many battles, he seems to have had a grant of the manor 
actually made to him by the Parliament in 1645.' Later, when the Royal 
cause was lost, he raised what forces he could, and attempted to rescue his 
Majesty from his enemies, joining his company with the forces under the 
command of George Goring, Earl of Norwich, and Sir Charles Lucas, and 
defending Colchester Castle for 10 weeks, until obliged to surrender it the 
28th Aug. 1648. 

He was tried before the new High Court of Justice, erected to sit for 
the trials of the Duke of Hamilton, the Earl of Holland, the Earl of Norwich, 
the Lord Capel, and Sir John Owen. Lord Capel utterly refused to submit 
to their jurisdiction, urging that being a soldier and a prisoner of war he 
could not thus be tried, besides which the declaration made by General 
Fairfax to him and the rest of the prisoners after the death of Sir Charles 
Lucas and Sir George Lisle was that no other of their lives should be in 
danger. Oreton denied that any such promise had been made, but said 
that even if it had been it would not restrain the authority of Parliament. 
When the matter was put to Fairfax his answer was interpreted by the 
Court, " that a promise of free quarter only exempted him from the sword, 
but not from the judicial proceedings of a civil court." After this 
Parliamentary quibble the whole five of the prisoners were sentenced and 
recommitted to the Tower, from whence Lord Capel by a cord and other means 
let himself down out of his chamber-window over the wall into the great 
ditch, where he found the water and mud so deep that in wading in it, he 
must have perished had he not been by the head taller than the average. 
The way was so long, and the fatigue in drawing himself out of the mud 
so painful that his energies were well-nigh exhausted, and he was once near 
calling on his enemies to deliver him from a position so dismal. But at 
length, with great difficulty, he arrived at the place where his friends 
expected him, and they carried him to a chamber in the Temple, where he 
remained secure for two or three days, at which time a faithful friend con- 
ceiving he would be safer in a rtiore private lodging, his lordship in crossing 
the water to Lambeth Marsh was recognised and betrayed, and again lodged 
in the Tower. He was executed 9th March, 1648, in the old Palace Yard, 
and was buried at Hadham. Lord Clarendon says of him : " He was a 
man that whoever shall after him deserve best of the English nation, can 
never think himself undervalued when he shall hear that his courage, 
virtue, and fidelity is laid in the balance with, and compared to that of the 
Lord Capel." In 1648 appeared " Obsequies on that vnexamplar champion 
of Chivalrie and perfect Pattern of true Prowesse, Arthur Lord Capel," folio. 
Lord Arthur Capel' s " Daily Observations, or Meditations divine and moraU," 
were published Lond. 1654, 4to '> ^'^d in 1683 a work thus entitled, " Excel- 
lent Contemplations, divine and moral. Written by the magnanimous and 
truly loyal Arthur, Lord Capel, Baron of Hadham. Together with some 
account of his life and his Letters to several persons, whilst he was a prisoner 
in the Tower, vigorously asserting the Royal cause against all the enemies 
thereof. Likewise his affectionate letters to his Lady, the day before his 
death and his courageous behaviour, and his last speech at his suffering, 
March 9th, 1648, with his pious advice to his son, the late Earl of Essex." 
He married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir Charles Morrison, Bart., of 

' Add. MSS. Brit. Mus. 5497. 



STONHAM. 357 

Caskisbury Park, co. Herts, and the manor on his death passed to his 
eldest son, Arthur, who sold the same and the advowson to Sir Jacob 
Gairaid, Alderman of London. In 1774 the manor was vested in William 
Middleton by purchase, and on his death in 1775 passed to his son and heir, 
Sir William F. Middleton, ist Bart., from which time the manor has descended 
in the same course as the Manor of Lawshall, in Babergh Hundred, and is 
now vested in Lord de Saumarez. 

Arms of Aspal : Az. three chevrons Or. 

Manor of Stonham Aspal, called Broughton, Manor de Broughton's 

Hall al. Easke Stonham al. Stonham Antgayne al. Stonham 

Edmunds al. Broughtons. 

This was the lordship of Roger de Poictou in the time of William the 
Conqueror. In the fifteenth century we find it vested in Robert Stonham, 
who married Mary, sister and heir of Edmund Bernet, and then in his 
daughter Elizabeth, married to John Broughton. She died in 1464, when the 
manor passed to her son and heir, John Broughton, who died in 1478, when 
it passed to his widow Anne, daughter of J. Denston, of Denston Hall, in 
Risbridge,' who died two years later,^ when the manor devolved on John 
Broughton's brother and heir. Sir Robert Broughton, who died 17th Aug. 
1506,^ and was succeeded by his son and heir, Sir John Broughton, who died 
24th Jan. 1517,* and was succeeded by his son and heir, John Broughton 
who died in .1529. This last J ohn Broughton left two daughters, his coheirs, 
who had livery of the several moieties of their father's estate — Catherine, 
married to Sir William Howard, Knt., Lord Howard of Naworth, and Anne, 
married to Sir Thomas Cheyne, Knt., Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. 

Sir John Heveningham died seised of the manor 5th Aug. 1536, when 
it passed to his son and heir, Anthony Heveningham. In 1541 a fine was 
levied of this manor against him by Sir William Drury and others.^ The 
manor then passed to Henry Cheyne, probably a connection of Sir Thomas 
Cheyne, mentioned above, and from him it was acquired by William Burde 
in 1564,^ and he granted it in 1583 to the Queen,^ who sold it the following 
year to John Clere, Rich. Adams, and John Walker, who conveyed it in 
1593 to John Malby,** who died in 1617, and was succeeded by his son and 
heir, Edward Malby, who held his first court 3rd Oct. 1625, and was buried 
12th Dec. 1653, aged 62. In 1659 the manor was vested in Sir Jacob 
Garrard, and in 1671 in Anthony Morgan. Amy Morgan, probably a daughter, 
married Anthony, son of Thomas Wingfield, of Nettlestead, and carried 
the manor to the Wingfield family, who became seated at Broughton Hall, 
a mansion situated near the church. Anthony Wingfield held his first court 
i8th Oct. 1698, and died in 1730. The Davy MSS. state that he was 
succeeded by his son and heir, the Rev. John Wingfield, who died without 
issue in 1736, when the manor passed to his brother, Thomas Wingfield, 
who died in 1762. Page's account somewhat varies from this. He says: 
" Anthony Wingfield and Amy Morgan had issue Amy and Anthony, and 
in 1691 Anthony Wingfield was married here to Mrs. Mary Blomfield, who 
had issue four sons and three daughters. Elizabeth, one of these daughters, 
married John Dade, M.D., of Ipswich, in 1725 ; Anthony, the eldest son, died 

'See this manor, I. P.M. 19 Edw. IV. 46. =Fine, Mich. 33 Hen. VIII. 

'I. P.M., 21 Edw. IV. 44. 6 Fine, Easter, 6 Ehz. 

3I.P.M., 22 Hen. VII. i. ^pine, Easter, 25 Ehz. 

■•I. P.M., 10 Hen. VIII. 148. « pj^e, Easter, 35 Ehz. 



358 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

in 1714; Johrij another son^ appears to have been rector of this parish and 
died in 1736. He had issue Anthony, Elizabeth, and Mary. Anthony 
Wingfield, Esq., was buried here Oct. 26th, 1730, as was Anthony Wingfield, 
jun., Nov. nth, 1714, for whom a handsome monument is erected in the 
churchyard. Thomas Wingfield, probably another son of Anthony, died 
in 1762." 

The manor passed by purchase from the representatives of the last- 
named Thomas Wingfield in 1764 to Philip Claude Crespigny, and was later 
acquired by William Middleton, who died in 1775^ when it passed to his son 
and heir, Sir William F. Middleton, ist Bart., from whom it descended in the 
same course as the main manor, and is now vested in Lord de Saumarez. 

Amongst the Early Chancery Proceedings is a suit by Arthur Blomfield 
against William and Robert Blomfield, touching lands in the Manor of 
Stonham Aspal.' 

A fine was levied in 1596 of Upston Manor by Ralph Scryvener and 
others against Sir Arthur Heveningham.'' 

Arms of Malby : Argent, on a bend between two cotices engrailed. Gules, 
three garbs ppr. (? Or). 

Manor of Earl Stonham. 

This, according to Davy, was the manor held by Brown in Saxon 
times, and by Roger le Bigot at the time of the Great Survey, when 
Warenger was Bigot's sub-tenant. It, however, was not unlikely a portion 
of the possessions of Robert de Rheims, which Roger Bigot had of his gift.^ 
The manor passed on Roger's death in 1107 to his son and heir, William Bigot, 
Steward to the Royal Household, who perished at sea in 1120, from which 
time to the death of Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk, in 1305, the manor 
passed in the same course as that of the Manor of Framlingham, in Loes 
Hundred. On the Patent Rolls in 1274 will be seen notice of a suit by 
John FoUol against Roger le Bygod, 4th Earl of Norfolk and others, touching 
a fosse levied in Earl Stonham,* and in the Public Records Office are 
preserved the Ministers' Accounts of his lands here from the 3rd to the 
34th year of Edw. L' 

The manor is specifically mentioned in the inquisition post mortem 
of Roger Bigod, 5th Earl, who died in 1305.° The king shortly after 1305 
granted the manor first, probably for life, to Giles de Brewosa, who died 
seised in 1310,^ and then it was granted to Thomas de Brotherton, Earl of 
Norfolk, who dying in 1338, it was assigned to his widow Mary, daughter of 
William, Lord Roos, and widow of William ''le Brus," by way of dower. 
On the Close Rolls in 1338 is an order to the Escheator to deliver to her this 
manor extended at £34. us. 2d. yearly.^ 

Mary, the widow, remarried Sir Ralph de Cobham. On her death in 
1362' the manor passed in moieties, one moiety vesting in Margaret, wife 
ist of John, Lord Segrave, and 2ndly of Sir Walter de Manney, daughter 
and coheir of Thomas de Brotherton, created Duchess of Norfolk for life 
by Rich. H., the 24th Sept. 1397. In 1362 the King assigned this moiety 
to Walter de Manney and Margaret his wife, as a portion of the estate of 
Thomas de Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk, the father ;'° and in 1372 an extent 

"C.P., Ser. ii. B. ix. 43. ei.P.M., 35 Edw. I. 46. 

= Fine, Hi). 38 Eliz. 'I.P.M., 4 Edw. II. 40. 

3 See T. de N. 295. » Close Rolls, 12 Edw. III. pt. iii. 15. 

4 Pat. Rolls, 3 Edw. I. x^d. ^l.V.M., 36 Edw. III. pt. ii. 9. 

5 Ministers' Accounts, Bundle 1005, No. '"Originalia, 36 Edw. III. 13. 
24-29; Bundle 1006, No. 1-7. 



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359 



of the manor will be found amongst the Escheats.' The other moiety of the 
manor vested in Alice, the other daughter and coheir of Thomas de Brother- 
ton, married to Edward de Montacute or rather to their daughter Joan, 
married to WiUiam de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk. The manor from this time 
to the death of John, Duke of Norfolk, at the Battle of Bosworth in 1488 
passed as the Manor of Framlingham, m Loes Hundred. On the Patent 
Rolls m 1400 is a grant during minority of the King's kinsman, Thomas 
Mowbray, son and heir of the Earl Marshal, deceased, of 30 marks from this 
manor. ^ It was surrendered the following year on the manor being assigned 
to his mother in dower.^ 

The manor is specifically mentioned in the inquisition p.m. of John, 
2nd Duke of Norfolk, in 1432/ and a deed charging an annuity on the manor 
in 1442 will be found amongst the Additional Charters in the British Museum.^ 
The manor is also specifically mentioned in the inquisition p.m. of John de 
Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk, in 1477.'^ 

The manor was restored to Thomas Howard in 1488 and 1503.'' He 
died in 1524, when the manor passed to his son and heir, Thomas, Duke of 
Norfolk, who had licence in 1471 to alienate to Sir Thomas Gresham, Knt. 
He died in 1579 and left the manor to his widow Anne in fee simple. 

In 1587 a fine was levied against her by Sir Thomas Cecill and others.* 
The manor was then valued at £40 per annum. From the Exchequer 
Special Commissions in 1590 we learn that this manor formed parcel of the 
possessions of Sir Thomas Gresham.^ 

A little later the manor passed to Sir Thomas Reade, Knt. There is a 
curious suit amongst the Chancery Proceedings in the time of Queen 
Elizabeth against this Thomas Reade. It is a bill by John, Robert and 
Laurence Hatfielde against him as lord of this manor to perpetuate testi- 
mony that Johan Hatfielde, while single, had issue. . . . William 
Hatfielde, father of the plaintiffs, had afterwards married John Major, a 
bondman or villein of Stonham Earl Manor, of which defendant was lord, 
and to refute the report that plaintiffs were sons of Major, and as such 
villeins of the said manor.'" Sir Thomas Reade did not long retain the 
manor, for in 1594 he parted with it to Sir Stephen Soame." 

There appears to have arisen difficulties over the last sale, for amongst 
the Chancery Proceedings of the time of Queen Elizabeth are two actions, 
one respecting " a purchase of the manor made by — Read from Sir Thomas 
Reade ""', and later one by Sir Stephen Soame against William Reade, for 
relief against incumbrances, upon Sir Stephen's purchase of the manor from 
Sir Thomas Reade, and against which Dame Anne Gresham, widow of Sir 
Thomas Gresham, held a recognizance of £2,000.'^ 

Two years later, in 1601, however, we meet with an alienation of the 
manor by Sir Thomas Reade to Thomas Rivett, but it had not actually left 
the Soame family, for Sir Stephen Soame, Knt.,''* died seised of it 23rd May, 
1619, when it passed to his son and heir. Sir William Soame. The next 
lord was Thomas GoodaU. Thomas Goodall was born in 1614, and 
married Audrey, daughter of Charles Smith, of St. Matthew, in Ipswich, 



'46Edw. III. 38. 

2 Pat. Rolls, I Hen. IV. pt. iv. 11. 

3 Pat. Rolls, 2 Hen. IV. pt. i. 24. 
4I.P.M., II Hen. VI. 43. 

5 Add. Ch. 17234. 
6I.P.M., 17 Edw. IV. 58. 

7 Rolls of Parliament, vi. 411, 529. 

8 Fine, Mich. 29-30 Eliz. vol. 9. 



333 Eliz. Exch. Spec. Com. D.K.R. 38, 

App. p. 46. 
'° C.P. ii. 20. 
" Fine, Hil. 36 Eliz. 
"C.P. ii. 402. 
'3 C.P. iii. 123. 
14 See Manor of Corner th Hall, in Bures, in 

Babergh Hundred, 



36o THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

attorney at law. He died in 1687, and was buried in the parish church of 
Earl Stonham. He seems to have been succeeded by another Thomas 
Goodall, who held his first court in 1687. On his death the manor passed to 
his widow, Susan Goodall, who held a court 9th Nov. 171 1. In 1745 Thomas 
Driver was lord, and 24th May this year he held a court, but by 1792 the 
manor had passed to his daughter and heir, Mary, married to Richard Moore, 
of Kentwell Hall, for she held her first court 29th June that year, and died in 
18 14, when the manor passed to her son and heir, Richard Moore, who offered 
the same by auction at Garraway, 21st Feb. 1815, together with a freehold 
farm called Deerbolts, containing 194 acres, with a large brick messuage 
known as the Manor house.'" A sale was not effected, and the manor was 
again offered at Garraway 20th June, 1815, when it was described as 
" extending over upwards of 2,000 acres, the quit rents amounting to ^^40 
a year." The fines were stated to have averaged upwards of ;£90 per annum.'' 
In 1829 the manor was vested in Timothy Holmes, and later in Messrs. 
Sparkes, Holmes, & Jackson, attorneys, of Bury St. Edmunds. In 1875 
it was vested in John Hayward, and in 1896 in Messrs. Hay wards. 

Arms of Goodall : Gu. an eagle displayed Arg. beaked and membered 
Or, on a canton of the first a chaplet Vert,^ or as in another place : On a 
canton of the 2nd, a chaplet of roses ppr. 

Manor of Greeting apud Montem al. Derebolt's. 

This manor we know httle of save that it belonged in the time of 
Hen. VIII. to Sir Philip Bothe, and passed under a fine levied in 1535 to 
Sir Andrew Windsor, Lord Windsor, and others, probably on a settlement 
of the property.^ A little later it belonged to Sir Robert Lytton, Knt. 
An agreement concerning special livery of the manor out of the Court of 
Wards and Liveries to Thomas Brokett and Anne (? Helen), his wife, one 
of the daughters and heirs of Sir Robert Lytton, deceased, will be found 
in 1557 amongst the Additional Charters in the British Museum.^ 

The agreement bears date the 18 th November, 4 and 5 Philip and Mary, 
and is in English and Latin, bearing the signature of Sir Francis Englefeld, 
Master of the Court. The manor seems to have gone in thirds with the 
Manor of Shrubland, in Barham, and Bramford Manor; for we meet with 
three fines affecting it between 1554 and 1560. The first is levied in 1554 
by William Lawsonand others against John Brokett and others f the second 
in 1558 by John Goodwyn and others against Thomas Lyttyll and others,' 
and the third in 1560 by Francis Walsyngham against the said Thomas 
" Lyttle " and others.^ 

In the time of Queen Elizabeth the manor was vested in Thomas 
Goodall, and in 1616 passed to his son and heir, Thomas Goodall. In 
1837 it was vested in Nicholas Hankey Smith, who died the following year. 
Deerbolt Hall was the ancient seat of the Driver family, and in it first saw 
light that excellent poet James Bird. Of him we take the following account 
from Page's History of Suffolk : — 

" He was the son of a substantial farmer, and the eighth of nine 
children ; born Nov. loth, 1788, as he says : 

' In a dear delightful spot, 
'Mid Nature's sweetest though secluded bowers.' 

^ If swich Journal, 31st Dec. 1814. 5 Add. Ch. 28954. 

^Ifswich Journal, 3rd June, 1815. '■Fine, Easter, 2 Mary 1. 

3 Add. MSS. 19152. J- Fine, Mich. 5 Mary I. 

■*Fine, Trin. 27 Hen. VIII. ^Yms, Mich. 2 Eliz. 



STONHAM. 361 

" In his childhood he went to a day school, and at the age of thirteen 
was removed to the Grammar School at Needham Market, where he con- 
tinued about a year and a half, when at his own desire he was apprenticed 
to a miller, in his native village. At the age of eighteen his apprenticeship 
expired, but, for the acquisition of experience as a miller, he continued to 
pursue the vocation seven or eight years longer. About the year 1814 he 
occupied the mills at Yoxford, where, though not as a miller, he ever after- 
wards continued to reside. In 18 16 he married Emma, the daughter of 
Mr. Hardacre, bookseller, of Hadleigh, in this county ; from this union 
sprang a family of sixteen children, twelve of whom survived him. 

" In 1819 Mr. Bird published his first poem, "The Vale of Slaughden." 
So favourable was the reception which it experienced that within a fortnight 
after its publication not a copy was to be obtained. In consequence a 
second edition soon after appeared. Dr. Drake in his ' Winter Nights,' 
after an extended critical analysis of this poem, thus expresses himself : 
'That the effort will secure him an honourable and a permanent 
station among the poets of his country, I have not the smallest doubt in 
asserting. So striking, indeed, have been the passages which I have 
adduced ; so abundantly do they carry on their surface the very form 
and pressure of superior powers ; so much of taste and feeling, of life and 
character, pervades their whole texture and composition ; and so sustained 
is the impression of the incidents throughout, by the beauty and spirited 
harmony of the versification, that no person, I am persuaded, can withdraw 
from the perusal of "The Vale of Slaughden" without a wish to see such 
encouragement bestowed as may lead to further productions from the same 
source.' 

" His occupation as a miller was unsuccessful, and he was set up, by the 
assistance of his friends, in a stationer's shop and small circulating library, 
in his favourite village of Yoxford; in which, and with the help of a 
miscellaneous stock in trade, he managed to rear his large family in 
respectability. 

" His poetical works are numerous, and voluminous. Mr. Bird deceased 
at Yoxford 26th March, 1839. To a mind of no common order he united in 
a high degree the rare quality of moral independance ; and true to its 
dictates, he was alike in public and in private the faithful and uncom- 
promising advocate of liberty, philanthropy, and truth. Possessing a 
warm and generous heart, the ready exercise of his talents for the benefit 
of others was a prominent feature in his character." 

Very little is said of James Bird in the various existing biographical 
dictionaries, and his merits as a descriptive poet have been overlooked, no 
doubt to some extent to the fact of his being essentially a local poet. His 
works include the following : " The Vale of Slaughden," Halesworth, 1819, 
8vo ; " Machin ; or the Discovery of Madeira," Lond. 1821, 8vo ; " The 
Exiles, a Tale," Lond. 1823 ; " Dunwich : a Tale of the Splendid City," 
Lond. 1828 ; "Framlingham : a Narrative of the Castle," Lond. 1831 ; 
" The Emigrant's Tale," Lond. 1883, 8vo ; " Francis Abbott, the Recluse 
of Niagara "; and "Metropolitan Sketches," 2nd ser., Lond. 1837. 

FiLLiOLs Manor. 

We meet with a fine of a manor called " Fyllyolys," which appears 
to have been in Earl Stonham. It was levied in 1532 by Thomas Revet 
and others against Robert Ive and others.' 

I Fine, Mich. 24 Hen. VIII. 
X I 



362 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

This was held by Thomas Keble, of Earl Stonham, brother, perhaps, 
of Stephen Keble of that place. He married Elizabeth, daughter and 
devisee of Robert Salmon, of Needham Market, and died in 1588,' when the 
manor passed to his son, Stephen Keble, of Bacton, who married Martha, 
daughter and coheir of Thomas Smith, of Bacton, and on his death before 
1639 vested in his son and heir, Nathaniel Keble. Nathaniel resided at 
Creting, and was an attorney. He married Frances, a devisee of John 
Bennett, her son-in-law, and held lands in Bacton, Wyverstone, and Earl 
Stonham. His wUl is dated in 1661, and it was proved in Norwich the 
following year, his successor in the lordship being his son and heir, Stephen 
Keble, of Needham. He died in 1678, without issue,"" when the manor 
passed to his brother and heir, Thomas Keble, of Coggeshall, co. Essex, 
who married Mary, daughter of Isaac Cooke, and died in 1692,^ leaving 
three daughters only, Mary, Rebecca, and Martha. 

Manor of Stonham Parva or Stonham Jernegan's. 

This was for many generations the lordship of the family of Jernegan, 
hence styled Stonham Jernegan's. It was the Manor of Eodman in Saxon 
days, and was held by Ulmar of Earl Alan at the time of the Great Survey. 
As early as the time of Hen. III. it was vested in the Jernegan family, for 
Sir Hubert Jernegan, Knt., died seised of the manor about 1239, from which 
time to the time of John Jernegan, who married Catherine, daughter of 
George Brooke, Lord Cobham, the manor passed in the same course as the 
Manor of Horham Jernegan, in Hoxne Hundred. 

A fine was levied of the manor and advowson in 1375 by John, son of 
John Jernegan and Margaret his wife against John Jernegan and Johanna 
his wife.* This manor is also specifically mentioned in the inquisition p.m. of 
John Jernegan, who died 26th Oct. 1503.^ And amongst the Chancery 
Proceedings of Queen Elizabeth is an action by Richard Mowse and Thomas 
Mowse to recover the title deeds to the site of the manor and a wood called 
Dereheys, granted to the plaintiffs in the time of Edw. VI. by Sir John 
" Jermingham," lord of the said manor.® 

The manor was sold in 1565 by John Jernegan (who had married Lord 
Cobham's daughter) to Henry Turnour, of Watton, co. Norfolk, yeoman,' 
and an acknowledgment of the receipt of the purchase money of ;^8oo will 
be found amongst the Additional Charters in the British Museum.^ The 
date is 27th June, 7 Eliz., and the document, which includes a release of the 
purchaser from the conditions of a certain indenture made between them, 
bears a seal and has the signature of " John Jemegane." 

Henry Turnour in 1570 sold the manor to Anna Godwyn, al. Ryx or 
Ryckes,^ from whom it seems to have passed to Theodore Godwyn «/. Ryckes, 
against whom three several fines were levied of the manor in the time of 
Queen Elizabeth— one in 1574 by Richard Mason," the second in 1579 by 
Thomas Folkes and others," and the third in 1597 by Richard Freston and 
others." The manor then seems to have passed to Ambrose Godwyn, who 

'Will 27th Jan. 1588 ; proved l8th March «C.P. ii. 230. 

following. ^Fine, Easter. 7 Eliz. 

'Will, P.C.C. 128, Reve, 1675, M.I. in ^ Md. Ch. 15759. 

Earl Stonham chancel. ' Fine, Easter, 12 Eliz. 

3 Will, P.C.C. Ill, Fane, 1690. '"Fine, Mich. 16-17 Eliz. 

■• Feet of Fines, 49 Edw. III. 26. " Fine, Mich. 21-22, Eliz. 

'I.P.M., 19 Hen. VII. 48. "Fine, Trin. 39 Eliz. 



STONHAM. 363 

sold it to Lady Penelope^ daughter of Thomas, Earl Rivers^ and then wife of 
Sir William Herveyj of Ickworth, who was owner thereof in 1656. She 
gave the manor to her 2nd son by her former husband, John Gage, and by 
a codicil to her will, which was proved in 1661, Lady Penelope ratified and 
confirmed to this son the conveyances which she had made in her lifetime 
to him of this manor. John Gage resided at Stonham Parva, and died 
without issue. 

In 1764 the lordship belonged to Francis Vernon, Baron Orwell, after- 
wards Earl of Shipbroke, who died in 1783, when it passed by his will 
to his nephew, John Vernon, who died in 1818. 

The manor was shortly afterwards purchased by Sir William Fowle 
Middleton, ist Bart., and has descended since in a like course with the manor 
of Lawshall, in Babergh Hundred, being now vested in Lord de Saumarez. 

Amongst the Early Chancery Proceedings is a suit by Sir Wilham 
Brandon, Knt., against Sir John Fogge, Knt., and Richard Fouler, alleged 
holder of a bond given by Sir John Jernyngham the King's rebel as to 
this manor.' 

Manor of Elude Hall, or Flede Hall cum Waltham Hall 

OR Walham Hall. 

This manor also was amongst the possessions of Earl Alan in Domesday 
times, and at an early period came into the family of Crane, ancestors of 
the Cranes of Chilton. Not unlikely in the time of Edw. I. the lordship was 
held by Hubert Weyland and Margaret his wife, as they claimed warren, 
view of frankpledge, and assize of bread and beer here in that reign."" 

Robert Crane, of this place, had in 1438 a release of all right in this manor 
from Thomas Sengyl ton, of Mendlesham,^ and died seised of it without issue, 
when it passed to his brother and heir, John Crane, who died i6th Aug."* 1504. 

Particulars of this manor, called " Fleet Hall " in 1518, will be found 
amongst the Tanner MSS. in the Bodleian.' From the death of John Crane 
to the death of Sir Robert Crane in 1642, the manor passed in the same 
course as the manor of Chilton, in Babergh Hundred. 

In the Davy MSS. we find a Robert Checke, who died in 1551, named as 
lord, and his successor, his son and heir, John Checke. Davy probably had 
some imperfect information respecting "Stonham Manor" being included in 
the inquisition p.m. of Robert Checke. He has, however, the date incorrect. 
Robert Checke died 17th Nov. 1548,® and John was his son and heir. It is, 
however, impossible to say which of the Manors of Stonham is intended. 

The manor is specifically mentioned in the inquisition p.m. of Robert 
Crane, who died in 15 51.'' Court Rolls of the manor belonging to Robert 
Crane, i Edw. VI. to 13 Eliz., will be found amongst the Rolls in the 
Bodleian.^ Amongst the Tanner MSS. in the Bodleian we find acquittance 
for rent paid by Sir Robert Crane out of this manor.' 

On the death of Sir Robert Crane in 1642 the manor passed to his widow, 
Susan Crane, who remarried Isaac Appleton, and they held their first court 
2nd Sept. 1647. Later the manor became vested in Francis Vernon, Lord 
Orwell, Earl of Shipbroke, who died in 1783, when it passed to his nephew 

I E.C.P., Bundle 48, 349. ' Tanner, cccxiii. 59. 

«Q.W., 730, 731. 6I.P.M., 5 Edw. VI. 61. 

3 16 Hen. V. Bodl. Suff. Ch. 661. 7I.P.M., 4 Edw. VI. 84. 

■♦Not 1505, as stated in the account of 8 Bodl. Suff. Rolls, 12. 

ChUton Manor, inBabergh Hundred. 9 Tanner, cccxiii. 57. 

I.P.M., 20 Hen. VII. 



364 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

and heir, John Vernon, who died in 1818. The manor, described as Waltham 
Hall and Fleed Hall, in Little Stonham, and 240a. 2r. i8p. of land were 
sold 13th June, 1818, under an Act of Parliament i Geo. IV. In the par- 
ticulars of sale it was stated that there were 107^ acres holden of the Manor, 
and that the fines were arbitrary. The quit rents amounted annually to 
£5. 13s. 6d., and the fines on an average of the then preceding seven years 
were £33. los.' 

The manor seems to have passed to the Parry family, for in 1855 we 
find it vested in the executors of William Parry, and in 1875 m a William 
Parry, and it is now in the lordship of the trustees of the late William 
Parry, of Sholing, Southampton, co. Hants. 

Ij^ 1753 John Haywod occupied " Fleet Hall " and Thomas Ling, 
Stonham Hall. 



^Ipswich Journal, 23rd May, 1818. 




SWILLAND. 365 

SWILLAND. 

JNE of the four manors here was held by Queen Edith, con- 
sort of Edward the Confessor. It consisted of 2 carucates 
and 40 acres of land, and had 6 villeins, 6 bordars, i serf, 
2 ploughteams in demesne, 3 ploughteams belonging to the 
tenants, 4 acres of meadow, and wood sufficient for 6 hogs. 
There was a church with 5 acres, i rouncy, 8 beasts, ig 
hogs, and 60 sheep, which number had by the time of the 
Great Survey risen to 100. 

The value in Saxon times was 50s., but at the time of the Survey 70s. 
It was 6 quarantenes long and 4 broad, and paid in a gelt 2od. Walter the 
Deacon, the Domesday tenant, held the manor in demesne, and the Queen 
had the soc' 

A second manor in this place is found in the Domesday Survey under 
the head Newton, in Bosmere Hundred. In the Confessor's time this manor 
was held by Aluric. It consisted of one carucate and had three villeins, 
12 bordars, i serf, i ploughteam in demesne and 2 belonging to the men, 
but one of the latter had disappeared before the time of the Great Survey. 

There were 5 acres of meadow, wood sufficient for 6 hogs, and 2 mills, 
valued at 60s. The Abbot of Bernay was the Domesday tenant in chief.'' 
Two other manors in Swilland are enumerated in the Survey amongst the 
lands of Roger de Rheims under the head Newton. One was held by Ernald 
of him, and was the manor which had in the Confessor's time been held by 
Brictrnar, a freeman. It then consisted of 102 acres, to which were attached 
2 villeins, 2 bordars, i ploughteam in demesne, 2 ploughteams belonging 
to the tenants, 2 acres of meadow, i rouncy, 20 hogs, and 20 sheep, valued 
at 20s. By the time of the Survey there were 4 bordars, 16 hogs, and 12 
sheep, and one of the ploughteams of the tenants had disappeared. The 
other manor was in the Confessor's time held by Leveson, a freeman under 
commendation to Stigand. It consisted of 40 acres, having a ploughteam 
which at the time of the Survey had come down to a team of 2 oxen only, 
I acre of meadow, formerly valued at 20s., but at the time of the Survey at 
IDS. This manor Ralph held of Roger de Rheims, and the King and the 
Earl had soc over the whole. ^ 

Swilland Manor. 

In 1270 the manor was vested in Hugh de Babington, for this year he 
conveyed it by fine to Richard de Frevile and Matilda his wife. A little 
later, however, the manor was vested in the Weyland family. Sir Thomas 
de Weyland^ held it at the time of his banishment in 1289, and from this 
time to the time of Richard de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and Isabel his 
wife in 1430, the manor passed in the same course as the manor of Blaxhall, 
in Plomesgate Hundred. In 1287 a fine of the manor was levied by Sir 
Thomas Weyland and his son John, the deforciant being James, son of 
Gilbert.^ John de Weyland and Maria his wife in 1307 levied a fine 
against John Olyver.® The manor is specifically mentioned in the inquisition 
p.m. of John de Weyland, who died in 1313.'' 

'Pom. ii. 426. 'Feet of Fines, 15 Ed. II. 66. 

^Dom. ii. 374. ^Feet of Fines, i Ed. II. 27. 

3Dom. ii. 423. n.TM., 6 Edw. II. 34. 

"• See Manor of Brandeston in, Loes Hun- 
dred. 



366 



THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 



Bartholomew de Burghersh had a grant of free warren here in 1349.' 
The manor is mentioned in the inquisition p.m. of Edward le Despenser, 
who died in 1375,' and is also included in the fine levied by John Verney, 
clerk, and Wm. Lee against Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and 
Isabella his wife, in 1430.^ In I5i4we meet with a fine levied by John 
Jenor and others against Sir John Audeley and others.* 

In 1525 the manor was granted for Cardinal Wolsey's College, Oxford,' 
but it passed in some way to Sir John Audley, for he died i8th April, 1530, 
seised of the manor,® when it passed to his son and heir, John Audley, who 
died in the month of June, 1534,^ when it devolved on his brother and heir, 
Edmund Audley, who paid relief in respect of the manor this year, and held 
in 1560. He sold in 1565 to Edmund Pettaughe.^ In 1616 the manor 
was vested in Robert Gosnold,^ who died about this time, when it passed to 
his cousin and heir, Robert Gosnold, from whom it passed to Anthony 
Gosnold the younger, son of Robert Gosnold, of Otley. 

A little later we find the manor vested in the Rev. Mr. Pilkington, 
rector of Swilland, and in 1666 in Ab. Hodges, widow. In 1739 the quit 
rents were stated to be £3. 5s. iii. per annum. In 1752 the lordship was 
held by Sir Charles Blois, Bart., and in 1784 by John Bernard, of Ipswich, 
shipbuilder, who became a bankrupt. In 1829 the manor was vested in 
Mileson Edgar, of the Red House, Ipswich. The ist July, 1837, the manor 
was offered for sale at Ipswich, when the fines were stated to be arbitrary, and 
the quit rent then amounted to ;^35 per annum." The manor was purchased 
by Jeremiah Woods, who sold to Nathaniel Byles, who held it in 1844, and 
on his death it passed to his daughter, married to Cowell, who held it in 
1855. I'^ 1885 the manor was vested in George Nelson Hatton, of 
Witnesham. 

Manor of Newton Hall. 

This was the manor held by Aluric in Saxon times, and by the Abbey 
of Bernay in the time of William the Conqueror. In the early part of the 
thirteenth century the manor was held by Robert de Mountenay, who died 
seised of it in 1252." It then passed to Robert de Mountenay, probably his 
son, who died in 1287." In 1322 we find the manor vested in Robert de 
Reydon and Margaret his wif e. ' ^ In the next reign the manor was apparently 
vested in William de Athurly, for we find amongst the Bodleian Rolls one 
of the 7 and 8 Edw. III., being an account of Geoffrey Mundckyn, his 
provost, for the manor.'* 

In 1380 it was vested in Sir John Tuddenham, Knt., who did homage 
and died in 1392, from which time to the sale of it by Edmund Bedingfield 
in 1585 the manor passed in the same course as the Manor of Great Bealings, 
in Carlford Hundred. In 1585 the manor was purchased by John Armiger.'' 
John Armiger died in 1587, and was succeeded by his son and heir, Edward 
Armiger, who died in 1609. 



' Chart. RoUs, 23 Ed. I. 6. 
"I.P.M., 49 Edw. III. pt. ii. 46. 
3 Feet of Fines, 8 Hen. VI. 14. 
* Fine, Easter, 6 Hen. VIII. 
5S.P. 17 Hen. VIII. 1834(2). 
«I.P.M., 23 Hen. VIII. 8. 
n.PM., 27 Hen. VIII. 19 
*Fine, Easter, 7 Eliz. 



9 See Manor of Netherhall, Otley, 

Carlford Hundred. 
" Ipswich Journal, 17th June, 1837. 
"I.P.M., 36 Hen. III. 16. 
" Extent, I.P.M., 15 Edw. I. 26. 
'5 1.P.M., 16 Edw. II. 63. 
'♦Bodl. Suff. Rolls, 23. 
" Fine, Easter, 27 Eliz. 



m 



SWILLAND. 367 

One Baxter subsequently appears as lord, and then an Alnot Clench, 
and in 1666 a Laurence Stisted, of Ipswich. This is the man who begged 
to compound for two-thirds of a farm called Drivers, in Swilland, then 
lately purchased of the trustees of John Bedingfield, recusant, in 1648.' 



• S.P. Cal. of Comp. 1851. 




368 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

WESTERFIELD. 

JHERE are 21 entries in the Domesday Survey of lands held 
inthisplace.but only one manor is mentioned. This manor had 
been held in the Confessor's time by Bar, a freeman under 
commendation to Ralph the Staller . It was held at the time 
of the Survey by Norman of Earl Alan, and consisted of a 
carucate of land. In Saxon times there were 2 villeins, i 
ploughteam in demesne and i belonging to the tenants, 
3 acres of meadow, 4 beasts, 20 hogs, and 100 sheep valued at los. By the 
time of the Survey the value had increased to 20s., and there were 2 
bordars, the ploughteams in demesne had increased to 2, and there was 
one rouncy. The Earl had the soc. The said Norman held 6 free- 
men with 24 acres, under commendation to Ralph the Staller, in the Con- 
fessor's time. This holding had i ploughteam, and was valued at 4s., the 
soc being the Earl's. Stanwin, a freeman, also had 14 acres which at the time 
of the Survey was held by Osbern under Earl Alan. The value was 25. ^d. 
The Survey says : " It," presumably the township or the manor, " was 8 
quarantenes long and 4 broad, and paid in a gelt 20^. The soc was the 
Earl's." 

Earl Alan also held in Westerfield 20 acres, which in the Confessor's 
time had belonged to 6 freemen. There was with this i ploughteam, 
and the valuation was included in that of Ipswich. At the time of the 
Survey, Earl Alan held this in demesne, and the King and the Earl had 
the soc' 

Robert Malet had three small estates, two of which were held under him 
by Humfrey. One, consisting of 60 acres, had been held in Saxon times by 
Ulviet, a freeman under commendation to Gurth, and the lands lay in Rush- 
mere. In Saxon times there had been here i bordar The value was 
los. The second, consisting of 6J acres, had been held in Saxon times by 
2 freemen under commendation to Ulviet and the value was 2s. The soc 
was the King's and the Earl's. The third, consisting of 10 acres, was held 
by a freeman under commendation, and was valued at 2S. Of this also the 
King and the Earl had the soc.'' 

Roger de Poictou had half a church with 7J acres and 2 freemen, 
with 9 acres, the latter valued at i8d., the King and the Earl having the 
soc.^ 

The Abbot of Ely had a socman named Aseret, holding of him 25 acres, 
I ploughteam, and i acre of meadow, valued at 5s. At the time of the 
Survey this was held by Hervey of the abbot by the King's command. A 
freeman named Thurkettle under commendation held 8 acres valued at i6d. 
This Hervey held of the King and at the time of the Survey held of the 
abbot by the King's command as he said. The soc was the King's.* 

Hugh de Montfort held here in demesne over a freeman with 8 acres 
valued at i6d. The freeman had been held by Oldric.- And Geoffrey de 
Magna ville had a small estate. It consisted of 14 acres valued at 2s., of 
which the King and the Earl had the soc. This had been held by Langfere, 
a freeman under commendation to Haldein, biit at the time of the Survey 
was held by William of Geoffrey de Magna ville.^ 

Three small estates here are included in the possessions of Roger de 
Rheims. The first was of 3 freemen with 28 acres, formerly having a 

' Dom. ii. 2946, 294 bis. * Dom. ii. 383&. 

' Dom. ii. 305&, 306. 5 Dom. ii. 410. 

3 Dom. ii. 352&. ^Dom. ii. 411. 



WESTERFIELD. 369 

ploughteam, but at the time of the Survey none, and 1 acre of meadow, 
valued at los., of which the King and the Earl had the soc. The second 
was of 5 freemen, with 23 acres and i virgate, formerly having i ploughteam, 
but at the time of the Survey none, valued at 4s. Over these freemen Girold 
held. 

The third was of i freeman with 16 acres, formerly having half a 
ploughteam, but at the time of the Survey none, valued at '^zd., of which 
the King and the Earl had the soc. This freeman was held by Ernald of 
Roger de Rheims." 

Amongst the possessions of Walter the Deacon were three small pro- 
perties in Westerfield. The first was held by Thurstin of Walter, as of 
Tedric's fee, and consisted of 30 acres, 4 bordars, i ploughteam, and 2 acres 
of meadow, valued at 8s., which had been held in the Confessor's time by 
Almar, a freeman. 

The second was held by Bernard and Almar of Walter, and consisted 
of 3 freemen with 28 acres, formerly having half a ploughteam, valued at 
36i. 

The third was held by Norman of Walter the Deacon, and consisted of a 
freeman with 6 acres, valued at X2d. Of all these three holdings the King 
and the Earl had the soc' 

Amongst the lands of the Vavasours in Westerfield we find 6 freemen — 
Alwin, Flint, Alwin, Edric, Uluric, Alestan, having 15 acres and i plough- 
team, valued at 30^. The King and the Earl had the soc. The Survey 
says that " one of the freemen, Flint by name, gave a pledge for that he 
said that they gave farm in Ipswich, and the Sheriff proved that he lied, 
and the said Sheriff is his surety." 

Aluric the priest held 12 acres and 2 acres of meadow, valued at 3s., 
of which the King and the Earl had the soc.^ 

Manor of Westerfield. 

In the time of King John, Sir William de Weyland, Knt., fined for his 
villeins here and in Charsfield. He does not, however, seem to have held the 
lordship, for this does not appear to have come to the Weyland family till 
the grant of Alan, Lord Burnell, of Acton Burnell, in Shropshire, to Sir John 
de Weyland, son of Sir Nicholas de Weyland and Beatrice his wife,' about 
1259, ^^ which year a grant of free warren was made to the said Sir John de 
Weyland here.' From this time to the time of Henry Bedingfield and 
Catherine his wife in 1541, the manor passed in the same course as the Manor 
of Brandeston, in Loes Hundred. Nicholas de Weyland had a grant of 
free warren here in 1285.^ 

Davy says the manor passed on the death of Sir Edmund Weyland 
in 1369 to his brother Sir John Weyland, and on his death to his daughter 
and heir, Elizabeth, married to John Harewell, of Warwickshire, whose 
daughter and heir Joan married John Streech, of Devonshire, and died in 
1434. He then makes the manor go to a cousin. Sir Thomas Tuddenham, 
upon whom he states it was settled by fine, and finally that when Sir Thomas 
was beheaded in 146 1 it passed to Margaret, his sister and heir, the wife of 
Edmund Bedingfield. A portion of this statement does not, however, seem 
to be correct. 

' Dom. ii. 422&. 423. ''Both buried in the Priory church of 

^Dom. ii. 4266. Woodbridge. 

3 Dom. ii. 4466. 'Chart. Rolls, 43 Hen. III. 3. 

6 Chart. Rolls, 13 Edw. I. 102. 

YI 



370 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

The manor is specifically mentioned in the inquisition p.m. of Sir Thomas 
Tuddenham in 1461,' and in that of his sister, Margaret Bedingfield, in 1474.' 
Henry Bedingfield and Catherine his wife are said to have sold the manor 
to James Dameron, for amongst the Chancery Proceedings of the time of 
Queen Elizabeth is an action by Matthew Goodyng against James Dameron 
to obtain admittance to copyholds in Westerfield Manor, " late the estate 
of Edward Goodyng, plaintiffs father, and held of the defendant as of this 
manor of Westerfield."^ 

The manor however was acquired by William Dameron of Anthony 
Bedingfield and others in 1552,* and passed to John Dameron, who by his 
will ist Feb. 1596 devised the same to his wife Margaret, she to bring 
up his daughter's children, Anthony Collett, Philologus, John Dameron 
Martha, Abigail, and Edny Collett, to find Joane Collett, testator's daughter, 
sufficient meat, drink, clothes, and lodging. After his wife's decease he 
bequeathed the manor to the said Anthony Collett at his age of one and 
twenty years, and to the heirs of his body. Failing these, remainder to 
Philologus Collett, his brother Dameron Collett, and Martha Collett, sisters 
of the said Anthony. Anthony the devisee, was the son of John Collett, of 
Westerfield by Joan his wife, daughter and heir of the said John Dameron. 

Anthony Collett married Elizabeth, daughter of John Jesmond, of 
Norwich, and died nth Aug. 1640, when the manor passed to his son and 
heir, Anthony Collett, who is entered in the Suffolk Visitation in 1664. He 
married Elizabeth, daughter of William Manning, of Knodishall, and his 
will is dated nth Feb. 1677.' Amongst the Exchequer Depositions in 1641 
will be found particulars of an action by Lionel Cooke against the bailiffs, 
&c., of Ipswich, as to whether the capital messuage in Westerfield, lately 
belonging to Anthony Collett deceased, was within the liberty of Ipswich 
or not. 

Upon Anthony Collett' s death the manor passed to his son and heir, 
Cornelius Collett. He married ist in 1675 Martha, daughter and coheir 
of Wmiam Fox, of HoUesley, and 2ndly in 1680 Elizabeth, daughter of 
Bence Dowsing, of Alderton. Cornelius Collett died before 1688, for adminis- 
tration to his estate was granted to his widow Elizabeth the 3rd June this 
year, and the manor passed to his son, Cornelius Collett, of Melton, who married 
Margaret, daughter of — Crisp, of Melton. Cornelius Collett the same year 
conveyed the manor by a fine to his cousin, Samuel Collett, son of Samuel 
Collett, of Westerfield, and of Elizabeth his wife, daughter and coheir of 
William Fox, of HoUesley. Whether the conveyance was to Samuel as 
beneficial owner or to him as trustee we cannot say, but possibly the latter, 
for we later find the manor vested in Cornelius Collett, the son of the grantor, 
who had died in 1741 or 1742, for his will is dated 23rd July, 1741, and proved 
30th May, 1742. This Cornelius Collett, the third in succession of the name, 
married ist a wife named Jane, and 2ndly Margaret Driver, and had an only 
daughter and heir, Margaret, married 6th AprD, 1790, to Rev. John Davis 
Plestow, of Ipswich, afterwards rector of Harkstead. 

Cornelius Collett by his will dated 27th March, 1789, devised all his 
real and personal estate to his daughter Margaret, and the heirs of her 
body, and in default of these to Cornelius Collett, of Woodbridge, merchant, 
his nephew, and to William Goodwin, of Earl Soham, in trust for sale, and to 

' I.P.M., 8 Edw. IV. 34. ♦Fine, Mich. 6 Edw. VI. 

= I.P.M., 15 Edw. IV. 38. i Proved 7th May, 1678, Norwich. 

C.P. i. 379- 



WESTERFIELD. 371 

divide the proceeds amongst the children of his late brother Anthony. 
Testator made a codicil 7th Sept. 1789, providing for the children of his 
daughter if she died under age, and this will was proved i8th Feb. 1790, 
Cornelius having died 8th Feb. 1790. In 1802 Henry CoUett died at Wester- 
field in his 78th year, but it does not appear that he held the manor. He 
had filled the office of Clerk of the Peace for the county upwards of 50 
years. 

The manor was held in 1829 by Mileson Edgar, of Red House Park, son 
and heir of Mileson Edgar by Elizabeth his wife, only daughter of Richard 
Charlton, of London. Mileson Edgar, the son, married i6th Oct. 1783, his 
cousin Susanna, eldest daughter of Robert Edgar, of Wickhambrook, High 
Sheriff in 1747, by Susanna his wife, only child of Rev. William Gery, 
prebendary of Peterborough, and died i6th June, 1830, when the manor 
passed to his son and heii, the Rev. Mileson Gery Edgar, who married ist 
19th Feb. 1818, Mary Anne, eldest daughter of Nathaniel Brickwood, of 
Dulwich, and 2ndly, 26th March, 1840, Ehzabeth, daughter of William 
Arkell, of London, great-great-grand daughter of Sir Matthew Hale. On 
his death, 3rd August, 1853, the manor passed to his widow, and on her 
death, nth June, 1890, devolved upon his nephew, Capt. Mileson Edgar, of 
Red House Park, 2nd son of the Rev. Edward Raikes Edgar, by Mary, 
eldest daughter of Charles CoUett. He married 28th Oct. 1878, Fanny 
Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Schreiber, rector of Bradwell, 
Essex. 

A manor called " Westerfield " is included in a fine levied in 1326 by 
Richard Len, of Ipswich, and Emma his wife against Giles de Wachesham, 
and John Alto Northshete, chaplain' ; and in 1552 Anthony Wingfield paid 
a rent for the " Manor of Westerfeilde Hall late Waylands " to the lord of 
Wikes Ufford Manor.' 

Arms of Collett : Sable, on a chevron engrailed between 3 hinds 
trippant. Argent, as many annulets of the first. Of Edgar : Party per 
chevron. Or, and Azure, in chief two fleurs de hs, Gules, 5 fusiles in fesse of 
the first, each charged with escallop of the third. ^ 



'Feet of Fines, 20 Edw. II. 7. 'By Pari, of Hen. VIII. 1547-8. 

' MS. in writer's possession. 




372 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

WHITTON WITH THURLSTON. 

|HERE were r8 freemen at the time of the Domesday Survey 
held in demesne by Richard, son of Earl Gislebert. Of 
these I2|- were under commendation to Aluric the priest, 
who was himself under commendation to Wisgar, and they 
had 64 acres among them, and of the others (that is to say, of 
5|) Richard's predecessor had not commendation (namely) 
over Aluric, Waldwin, Harold, Godwin, Ulmar, Aluric. These 
later had 24 acres in the Confessor's time. The Survey says : " These men 
Richard so holds because Bishop Arfast held them when Richard made good 
his claim to the Church of St. Peter at Ipswich against him ; but now he did 
not know that they did not belong to his fee. Among them they had 3 plough- 
teams and an acre of meadow. The above X2 were valued at 6s. 8d., and 
the others at 4s. id. The King and the Earl had soc over the whole of them.'" 
Richard, son of Earl Gislebert, also held here 91 acres belonging to the 
Church of St. Peter at Ipswich, valued at 15s., which was included with 
certain other land of this Domesday tenant in a valuation of 15 pounds. 
The Survey adds, "It" (presumably Thurlston), " is 10 quarantenes long 
and 6 broad, and pays in a gelt 2od."'' 

Amongst the lands of Earl Alan in Thurlston was a freeman with 2 
acres, who with 2 freemen with 3 acres in Westerfield were valued at 
lod. This at the time of the Survey was held by Aluric the priest of the 
Earl. Earl Alan also held a freeman named Uluric with 6 acres, valued at 
i2d., of which the King and the Earl had the soc ; and also 16 acres which 
another freeman named Aluric had held in the Confessor's time, valued 
at 32^. ; a freeman with 7 acres valued at 14^., and a freeman with 12 
acres valued at 2s., of which the King and the Earl had the soc.^ 

Roger de Poictou had here 5 freemen with 26 acres in the King's soc, 
formerly having half a ploughteam valued at 4s., which at the time |of the 
Survey was held by Gosbert of Roger de Poictou. This Gosbert also held 
the land, which 18 freemen had formerly held, consisting of 78 acres and 
1 acre of meadow, and half a church with 5 acres. The 18 freemen had had 
3 ploughteams, but at the time of the Survey there were 2 only. The value 
had varied from 20s. in Saxon days to 13s. 4^. in Norman times. Of both 
this and the previous holding the King and the Earl had the soc. Roger 
de Poictou also held Algar the priest, a freeman, with 3 acres valued at 6d^ 

William de Scoies had here at the time of the Domesday Survey 2 free- 
men with 5 acres and i bordar, valued at 15^?. To this holding in the Con- 
fessor's day there had appertained half a ploughteam.' 

Walter the Deacon held here a freeman with 16 acres and 4 bordars, 
half a ploughteam and an acre of meadow, valued at 2s. 8d., and half a 
church with 5 acres.*' 

And amongst the lands of the Vavasours we find three holdings. One 
that of Aluric, a burgess of Ipswich, son of Rolf, who held what his father 
had held in the Confessor's time, namely, 12 acresi here, valued at 2s., of 
which the King and the Earl had the soc. Earl Ralph was seised of this 
when he made forfeiture. The above Aluric held the Church of St. Julian 
in the borough of Ipswich, with 20 acres of land valued at 40^. Of this 
church Earl Ralph was seised. 

'Dom. ii. 394. ■'Dom. ii. 3526. 

"lb. 5 Dom. ii. 354. 

3 Dom. ii. 295. 6 £)ojn ii. 426&. 



WHITTON WITH THURLSTON. 373 

The second holding was a freeman Goodwin, under commendation to 
Stigand, with 10 acres, valued at 2od. ; and the third 2 freemen, Uluric and 
Ormar, holding 6 acres valued at 12^., of which the soc was in the King. 
The Sheriff kept these in hand for the King.' 

In the Hundred of Claydon the King had 30 freemen with 147 acres and 
a half, and a church in Whitton, with 10 acres. There were 3 ploughteams 
and I acre of meadow, valued at 40s. 4d. The names of the men were 
Aistan, Goodrich, Goodwin, Offa, Rictan, Gooding, Aluric, Estrat, Aluric, 
Toulit, Lewin, Aluric, Gunequata, Uluric, Thurkettle, Goodrich, Edith, 
Dirsi, Brictmer, Leveva, Aluric, Uluric, Norman, Lewric, Saxlef, Alwin, 
Ulwin, Ediic, Sigar. These men the Sheriff held in hand for the King, and 
the King and the Earl had the soc."* 

The parishes of Whitton and Thurlston have long been consolidated. 
The church of the latter was used as such since 1800, but after the vicarage 
became united to Whitton, it was suffered to become dilapidated, and 
the ruins are now used as a barn. 

There is no manor known as Thurlston, but two manors in the place, 
one known as Barnes or Bernes Manor, and the other as Dale Hall or Dales- 
hall Manor. 

Manor of Barnes al. Bernes. 

This in Saxon days was the estate of Gosbert, and in Norman times of 
Roger de Poictou. In the reign of Hen. II. it became vested in the priory 
of St. Peter's, Ipswich, where it remained until the Dissolution, when 
passing to the Crown it was granted in 1528 by Hen. VIII. to Cardinal 
Wolsey as part of his endowment for Cardinal College, Ipswich.^ It; was 
granted the following year by the Cardinal to St. Mary's College, Ipswich.* 
On Wolsey's disgrace the manor reverted to the Crown, and in 1541 we 
find a lease of the "rectory of Barnes in Thurlston" made to Francis Bernard, 
the property being described as that " which belonged to St. Peter's 
Monastery, Ipswich, and then in the King's hands by attainder of Cardinal 
Wolsey." The lease was for 21 years at £8. 6s. Sd. rent., and 6s. 8d. in^ 
crease.^ The manor was in 1577 granted to Thomas Seckford from whom 
it apparently passed to Edmund Withipol, for he died seised of it i6th May 
1582, from which time to the time of Sir William Withipol, the manor 
passed in the same course as the Manor of Manton, in Hitcham, in Cosford 
Hundred. 

From Sir William Withipol the manor passed to his daughter and heir, 
Elizabeth, married to Leicester, 6th Viscount Hereford. In the beginning 
of the i8th century we find the manor vested in William Hammond, of 
Whitton, who died in 1725, when it passed to his son and heir, John Ham- 
mond,'^ from whom it passed to his brother and heir, Edmund Hammond, 
who dying 29th Jan. 1759, in his 56th year, it passed to his widow, and sub- 
sequently to his sister Esther. A Mrs. Esther Hammond died 29th Dec. 
1760, aged 54, and was buried in the family vault in the centre of the chancel 
of Whitton Church. The manor is sometimes referred to as the Manor of 
Thurlston, and was in 1855 vested in the Rev. E. Woolnough, while the 
Manor of Whitton was then said to be vested in John Orford. It later 
passed to his trustees and is now, under the title of "Whitton with 
Thurlston," vested in Henry Orford. 

' Dom. ii. 446. 5 32 Hen. VIII. 1541 ; S.P. 580 (120). 

'Dom. ii. 4466. ^?Died and buried 6th June, 1733, at 

3 S.P. 20 Hen. VIII. 4424. Whitton, 

4 S.P. 20 Hen. VIII. 5280. 



374 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

Manor of Dale Hall al. Daleshall. 

This estate was held in the time of Edward the Confessor by Edred, a 
freeman, under the protection of Wisgar, and at the time of the Great Survey 
formed part of the vast estates allotted to Roger de Poictou. 

In 127 1 we find the family of Dale flourishing in Thurlston. At that 
date there was one Baldwin de la Dale holding lands there, and in 1295 
John de la Dale. In 1315 we meet with a grant of land in Thurlston by 
Roger called " le Mylnere," burgess of Ipswich, and William, his son, to 
John de la Dale.' The following year another Baldwin de la Dale is found 
living here, and in 1320 we meet with a release, still preserved in the Record 
Office, made by John Norman to John de la Dale the elder, of 6d. yearly 
rent issuing out of land in Thurlston. "^ Amongst the same collection of 
deeds as the last is a release made in 1323 by John, son of Thomas de la 
Dale, to the Canons of St. Peter and St. Paul, Ipswich, of all his right in 
land in Thurlston.^ 

This is not unlikely the Thomas de la Dale who died in 1332, and was 
succeeded in the possession of lands in Thurlston by his son and heir, John. 
Further, in 1349 we find a Sir Thomas de la Dale having lands in Thurlston, 
but it does not appear with certainty that any of these parties exercised 
manorial rights, or, in fact, actually held this manor. In 1368 we meet 
with a grant by Richard Osbern and Alice Ordimer his wife, late the 
wife of William Heldere to Henry Levinton of land abutting on the pasture 
of " Sir Thomas dil Dale " in Thurlston.* 

Thomas de Dale^ who died about 1428, and was succeeded by his son 
and heir, Baldwin de Dale, seems to have held the manor, however, and on 
Baldwin's death it passed to his son and heir, John Dale, from whom in 1479 
it went to his son and heir, WiUiam Dale, and from him about 152 1 to his 
widow Elizabeth. A John Dale died seised 20th Oct. 1528, being suc- 
ceeded by his sen and heir William Dale. (See Add. MSS. Brit. Mus. 
19094, p. 181, where an extent of this manor will be found.) William Dale's 
daughter and coheir, Jane, married William Wollascot, cousin and heir of 
William Wollascot, and died in 1542. William Wollascot died in 1547, when 
the manor passed to his son and heir, William Wollascot. This William 
Wollascot sold the manor in 1560 to Stephen Baxter,® of Ipswich, draper, 
who died in 1589, when it passed to Stephen Baxter, probably his son, whose 
daughter and heir, Dorothy, married Edmund Bohun, of Westhall.^ He 
died in 1638 and she in 166 1, when the manor passed to their grandson and 
heir, Edmund Bohun, the political writer, son and heir of Baxter Bohun, of 
Westhall, who had died in 1658 in his mother's lifetime.^ The manor 
subsequently vested in William Martin, of Hemingstone, from whom it 
passed to his eldest son, William Benet Martin. In 1804 the manor seems 
to have been held by Francis Edmunds and S. Shore. 

This manor formerly paid yearly to the parson of Whitton nine cheeses. 

Arms of Dale : Gules, a swan Arg. 



' Ancient Deeds, A. 3755- the son of Baldwin de la Dale, a 

''l4Edw. n. A. 3753. burgess of Ipswich in the time of 

317 Edw. II., A. 3886. Hen. III. 

*42 Edw. III. A., 3741. ^Fine, Easer, 2 Eliz. 

5 He was the son of Thomas Dale by ^See. Manor of Empoles Westhall, in 

Beatrix his wife, daughter of Roger Blything Hundred. 

Wolverston. Thomas was the son ^See Manor of Westhall. 

of Thomas the son of Sir Thomas, 




WILLISHAM. 375 

WILLISHAM. 

IN Saxon times there were three manors here, all of which were 
at the time of the Norman Survey held by Roger de Poictou. 
One had been held in the Confessor's time byAlfiet, a free- 
woman under commendation to Harold, and it consisted 
of 2 carucates of land. There were 3 villeins, 10 bordars, 3 
serfs, 2 ploughteams in demesne and 5 belonging to the 
tenants, also 5 acres of meadow and a church with 32 acres. 
The value was £4, but by the time of the Survey it had come down to ^^3. 
The depreciation was shown by the ploughteams of the tenants having 
become reduced to 3, and the disappearance of two of the serfs. This 
manor was at that time held by Albert of Roger de Poictou. There was 
also here a freeman named Leuric, with 20 acres valued at 4s. 

The second manor was a small one of 40 acres, which in the Confessor's 
time had been held by a freeman named Gwelf, with half a ploughteam, 
valued at 8s. This also at the time of the Survey Albert held of Roger de 
Poictou, and the King and the Earl had the soc. 

The third manor consisted of 80 acres held in King Edward's day by a 
freeman named Teding. To this manor belonged 2 bordars, i ploughteam 
in demesne, and half a team of the tenants, and 2 acres of meadow, all valued 
at i6s., the King and the Earl having the soc. 

There were also 2 freemen named Leuric and Godman, with g acres. 
Godman was under commendation to the Abbot of Ely, and he had the soc 
in the Confessor's time. The value was only 3s., and it was held also by 
Albert of Roger de Poictou. The whole place was a league long and 4 
quarantenes and 20 perches broad, and paid in a gelt 6^^.' 

Manor of Willisham Hall. 

The three manors seem to have coalesced in the hands of Albert Grelly 
or Greilly, to whom they were transmitted from Domesday Albert. He was 
the son of Albert Greilly, the son of Robert, Lord of Gt. Casterton, co. 
Rutland, in 1134, son of Albert Greilly. Albert Greilly granted the impro- 
priation of Willisham to the prior and convent of the Holy Trinity in 
Ipswich prior to 1182, in which year he died. 

The manor passed to his son and heir, Robert Greilly, by Isabel, daughter 
of Thomas Basset. Hemarriedone of the daughters of Henry de Longchamp, 
and died in 1231, when the manor passed to his son and heir, Thomas 
Greilly, who had a grant of free warren here in 1249" ^^'^ 
died in 1262,^ when it passed to his grandson, Robert Greilly, son of 
Peter, who had died in his father's lifetime. He is stated in the 
Testa de Nevill to have held a knight's fee here of the King in chief. '^ He 
married Hawise, daughter and coheir of John de Burgh, and on his death 
in 1282' the manor passed to his son and heir, Thomas Greilly. Thomas 
had no issue and sold the manor in 1304 to William de la Mote. 

On the Originalia Rolls for this year will be found a note of the fine paid 
by William de la Mote for having acquired the manor from Thomas Greilly, 
who held of the King,® and on the Patent Rolls for the same year is a pardon 

' Dom. ii. 351. * T. de N. 295. 

» Chart. Rolls, 3^ Hen. III. pars altera 3. s I. P.M., 10 Edw. I, 20. 

3 Extent 55 Hen. III. 10, or file 40 (19). ^Originalia, 32 Edw. I. Ri. 5. 



376 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

to William de la Mote for having acquired the manor "in tail," and a licence 
to retain.' Both on the Originalia and Patent Rolls the name appears as 
" William de la More " j but in the inq. q.d. as " de la Mote." 

Page says: "In the 35 Hen. HI., Thomas de 'Gredley' held this manor; 
in the 26 Edw. L Robert de Tibetot ; and in the 6th of the next reign John 
de Weyland." He, however, gives no authority for the statement, but 
the "villa" is certainly included in the inquisition p.m. of Robert de 
Tybetot in 1298.' The probabihty is that until the time of Edward HI. 
there were two manors here ; for we find in 1227 from the Close Rolls that 
William, son of Reyner, had by grant from the King a market in Willisham 
(Witlesham) Manor, and one of the manors was certainly then held by 
Robert Greilly.^ 

Some lands in Willisham had as early as 1215 been granted off by this 
William, son of Reyner, for we find on the Close Rolls an order to let Samson 
de Gangy have land "which formerly belonged to William, son of Reyner, 
in Willisham."'* Further, John de Weyland in 1369 and Robert Loveday 
the following year had grants of free warren here,' as also had Roger Love- 
day (Lunedaye) in 1280.^ Finally we find a Manor of Willisham named in 
the inquisition p.m. of Giles de " Brewosa " in 1310," a date when we know 
that one of the manors of that place was vested in William de la Mote. 

From this William de la Mote^ the manor seems to have passed to 
another of the same name, and on the Close Rolls in 13 14 we find a distinct 
statement that William de la Mote was " lord of Willardesham."' On his 
death in 1327'° the manor passed to Isabel de la Mote, after whom it vested 
in Joan, wife of William de Ferrers, and at her death in 1375" passed to 
her son and heir, Sir Robert de Ferrers. He granted the manor in 1376 
to Peter Colbroke for life. There is a fine in 1456 of a " Wittelesham " 
Manor, which probably is this, levied by Thomas Brewes and Elizabeth his 
wife against Thomas Gardiner, chaplain." 

Later, we find the manor vested in Sir Ralph Greystock, who dying 
8th June, 1488, it passed to his granddaughter and heir, Elizabeth Grey- 
stock. It appears from the inquisition p.m. of Sir Ralph Greystock,'' 
that he had given the manor to his eldest son, Sir Robert Graystocke and 
Elizabeth his wife, and to the heirs male of Robert. Robert died in his 
father's lifetime without male issue, and on the death of Sir Ralph the manor 
descended to Elizabeth, daughter of the said Robert, who in 1488 was but 
13 years of age. The manor in 15 10 appears to have been vested in John 
Basset and Katharine his wife, and against them this year two fines were 
levied, one by Guy Palmer, serjeant at law, and others,'* and the other by 
Thomas Spryng and others. '^ In 1520 a fine of a moiety of the manor was 
levied by John, Earl of Oxford, and others against John Jensour'*; and in 
1575 by Roger Marshe against William Sprynge, apparently of the whole 
manor.'' In 1584 a fine was levied by Roger Townshende and others 
against Philip, Earl of Arundell, and others.'^ 



'Pat. Rolls, 32 Edw. II.; I.Q.D., 32 

Edw. I., file 49, 3. 
*I.P.M., 26 Edw. I. 39. 
3 Close Rolls, II Hen. III. 22. 
■♦Close RoUs, 17 John, pt. i. 7. 
5 Chart. Rolls, 53 Hen. III. 4; 54 Hen. III. 6. 
"Chart. Rolls, 8 Edw. i. 20. 
''I.P.M., 4 Edw. II. 40. 

8 Extent I.P.M., 32 Edw. I. 161. 

9 Close Rolls, 7 Edw. II. ^d. 



"I.P.M., I Edw. III. 88. 

'Extent I.P.M., 47 Edw. III. pt. i. 56. 

' Feet of Fines, 34 Hen. VI. 14. 

3lnquis. 3 Hen. VII. 304. 

♦ Fine, Easter, 2 Hen. VIII. 

' Fine, Easter, 2 Hen. VIII. 

6 Fine, Trin. 12 Hen. VIII. 

'Fine, Hil. 17 Eliz. 

' Fine, Mich. 26-27 Eliz. 



WILLISHAM. 377 

We find, however, that the manor was vested in WiUiam, Lord 
Windsor, and that he by his will dated 1558 gave it to his son and heir, 
Sir Edward ^^'indsor, from which time to the time of Thomas, 6th Lord 
Windsor, it passed in the same course as the Manor of Baylham, in this 
Hundred. In 1588 Henry, Lord Windsor, levied a fine against Philip, 
Earl of Arundel, and others,' and in 1590 we meet with a fine levied against 
Lord Windsor by Edward Cooke and others, no doubt on the occasion of. 
some settlement, for it is clear that the manor passed on the death of Henry, 
Lord Windsor, in 1606, to his son and heir, Thomas, Lord Windsor. He 
had licence to alienate in 1620 to Robert Brownrigg and John Brownrigg 
his son. John survived his father, and dying in 1634 was succeeded by his 
son, John Brownrigg, who died in 166 1. 

He left by his will the sum of £10 to be paid out of the WiUisham 
Hall estate, which sum is now represented by an annual rent of 12s., paid 
out of the same estate for the purpose of purchasing bread to be given 
away to the four oldest people in the parish quarterly. On John Brown- 
rigg' s death the manor passed to his son and heir Robert Brownrigg, who 
died in 1694, being succeeded by his son and heir, John Brownrigg, who died 
in 1701 leaving a daughter and coheir, Elizabeth, married to the Rev. 
Luke Leake, rector of Nettlestead, vicar of Offton, and curate of WiUisham. 

He died in 1749, and his widow in 1755, when the manor passed to their 
son and heir, John Brownrigg Leake, rector of Naughton and of Nettlestead, 
and curate of WiUisham, who, about 1764, sold the same to Peter Upcher, of 
Great Yarmouth, son of the Rev. Abbot Upcher, rector of St. Peter's and St. 
Gregory's, Sudbury, and of Mary his wife, daughter of Rev. John Foxwell, 
rector of Rattlesden. Peter Upcher by his wUl dated i8th Aug. 1795, left the 
manor to his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of John Ramey, and sister of the 
Countess of Home, with power to appoint by deed or will amongst their 
chUdren, and in default of children to her in fee. She by her will dated 
2ist April, 1797, proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, appointed 
in favour of her only son. Abbot Upcher, in fee. He resided at Shering- 
ham Hall, co. Norfolk, and 3rd AprU, 1809, married the Hon. Charlotte 
\^'ilson, eldest daughter of Henry, Lord Berners, and died 2nd Feb. 1819. 
He had, however, disposed of the manor, 20th April, 1812, with the 
impropriate rectory, the great and small tithes of the parish and the perpetual 
curacy, together with 295 acres of land, for 3^21,320.^ The purchaser appears 
to have been one Thomas Myers, for the 6th June, 1839, the manor, tithes, 
and perpetual curacy were offered for sale by his trustees and executors.^ 

The purchaser was the Rev. Edward Bowyer Sparke, rector of Felt- 
weU, CO. Norfolk, for he was lord in 1844, and on his death in 1879 the 
lordship passed to his trustees, who are the present lords of this manor. 

Arms of Greilly : Vairee, Ermines, and Gu. Of Sparke : Chequy 
Or and Vert, a bend Erm. 



The foUowing entries in the Domesday Survey have not been iden- 
tified as in Bosmere and Claydon Hundred, and in order to complete the 
work, so far as the Survey is concerned, the entries are here given. 

' Fine, Hil. 30 Eliz. ' Ipswich Journal, 4th May, 1839. 

* Ipswich Journal, 25th. April, 18 12. 

ZI 



378 THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

ULEDANA. 

Land of the King belonging to the Kingdom, which Roger Bigot 

KEEPS. 

A socman and a half with 30 acres and half a ploughteam. Valued 
at 2od.' 

Land of Robert Malet. 

Walter de Caen holds of Robert what was a freeman' s"^under 
commendation Math 6 acres. Valued at ^2d. A freeman under com- 
mendation with 5 acres. Valued at lod. This Robert holds in 
demense. The King and the Earl have soc over the whole. ^ 
Lands of Roger de Poictou. 

A freeman Ulmar held 4 acres and half a ploughteam and i bordar. 
Valued at 8d. The King and the Earl have the soc.^ 
Lands of the Bishop of Bayeux. 

A freeman Aluric under commendation to Sachs held 16 acres. 
Always i ploughteam. Then i bordar, now none. Roger de Rheims 
claims that he held this Aluric in his fee before the men were 
delivered to the Bishop. Then wood for 24 hogs. And 8 hogs. 
And 22 sheep. And 3 goats. Then valued at los., now at 8s. 

Six freemen with 52 acres. Over one and a half of these, to wit, 
over Lewin and Thurmer, the Abbot of Saint Edmund's had com- 
mendation in King Edward's time. And one Brictwolt by name was 
under commendation to Edric, Malet's predecessor. Then among the 
whole of them were 2 plough teams and a half, now 2. Then and now 
valued at 20s. Roger Bigot holds of the Bishop. And Garenger of 
him. 

Eight freemen held 40 acres. Of these 4 were under commen- 
dation to Sachs, the predecessor of Ralph PipereUi, having 25 
acres. Then among the whole of them were 2 ploughteams, now i, 
and an acre and a half of meadow, and i' rouncy. Then 6 beasts, 
now 7. Then 28 sheep, and now 17. Now 20 goats. Then 5 hogs, now 
19. A church with 7 acres and a half, valued at 15^. They were then 
valued at 20s., now at 21s. The King and the Earl have soc.'' 

Lands of St. Etheldreda. 

Aluric, a freeman by commendation only, held an acre and a half. 
Valued at 3^. The King and the Earl have soc. This is in demesne.^ 

Land of the Abbot of Bernav. 

Alwin holds 2 freemen with 11 acres. Then half a ploughteam, 
now none.* 

Land of Walter De Saint Valery. 

A freeman under commendation held 3 acres. Valued at 2s. 
The King and the Earl have soc.'' 

Land of Eudo, son of Spiruic. 

Siric, a freeman in King' Edward's time, held as a manor ; now 
\Mlliam holds — 70 acres. Always 2 bordars. Then 2 ploughteams, 
now a team and a half. And 2 acres of meadow. Then 2 rouncies. 

' Dom. ii. 281b. 5 Dom. ii. 383. 

»Dom. ii. 3046. 5 Dom. ii. 389. 

3 Dom. ii. 352. ''Dom. ii. 4326. 
* Dom. ii. 3745, 3755. 



DOMESDAY UNIDENTIFIED ENTRIES. 379 

Now 16 hogs. And 28 sheep. Valued at 20s. Also 13 freemen — 
over two Roger's predecessor had commendation — ^with 40 acres 
and I ploughteam. Valued at ids. The King and the Earl had 
soc. It is a league long and 3 quarantenes broad. And pays 10^. in a 
gelt. Others hold land therein.' 

Land of Humfrey, son of Aubrey. 

Five freemen with 20 acres. Always half a ploughteam.' 

Land of the Vavasours. 

Four freemen, Rabboda, Leuric, Edric, Uluric, held 8 acres. 
Valued at i6d. These were added to the farm in King William's time, 
and Roger is warrant thereof to Ulmar the provost (and Roger did not 
know that they were so added), who added them, and they used not 
to belong to any farm. A freeman Ulmar had the fourth part of an 
acre. Valued at 2d. Brictmar the beadle held over him ; and he 
gave security. Ulmar the provost is bail for him. Also a freeman, 
Lewin, holds 2 acres and a half. Valued at 8d.^ 

SCARFESTON (Probably in Barham). 

Lands of Earl Ralph which Godric the Steward keeps in Hand for 
THE King. 

A freeman, with 2 acres, valued at 2d.* 

Lands of the Bishop of Bayeux. 

Three freemen, Lewin, Leuric, and Edric, held 4 acres and a team 
of 2 oxen, valued at lod. Ralph de Savigni holds from Roger. And 
27 freemen under soc and commendation of the Abbot of Ely, held i 
carucate of land. Then and later 4 ploughteams and now 4. And 
2 acres of meadow. Always valued at 40s.' 

Lands of Earl Alan. 

Three freemen under commendation to the Abbot of Ely, with 12 
acres. Always a team of 2 oxen. Two of these men Harlenat 
holds — ^and this is included in the valuation of Nettlestead ; and the 
third is in the Earl's demesne, and included in the valuation of Heming- 
stone. The soc is the Abbot's.^ 

Lands of Saint Etheldreda. 

Three freemen in the Abbot's soc and commendation held 8 acres 
and a team of 2 oxen. Then valued at 20^., now at 2S. This William 
de Scoies held of the King, now he holds of the abbot. And a freeman 
by soc and commendation held 2 acres. Valued at 4^. Walter holds 
him.^ 

HEMINGSLAND. 

Lands of the King in the Province which Roger Bigot keeps. 

A freeman under commendation to Gurth, with 30 acres. Then 
half a ploughteam. Valued at $s. Woolmer the steward joined 
this freeman on to the King's farm at Bramford, and Roger the Sheriff 
is his warrant. And the freeman renders each year 5s. The King and 
the Earl have soche.^ 

'Dom. ii. 434. 'Dom. ii. 376. 

'Dom. ii. 436. 6Dom. ii. 295. 

'Dom. ii. 446. 7Dom. ii. 383&. 

*Dom. ii. 285. ^Dom. ii. 282. 



38o THE MANORS OF SUFFOLK. 

Lands of the Vavasours. 

A freeman Alwin under commendation to Gurth (held) 30 acres. 
Then half a ploughteam. Valued at 5s. Ulmar the steward conjoined 
this freeman to the King's farm of Bramford, and Roger the Sheriff 
is warrant to him for so doing, and he renders every year 5s. And 
the King and the Earl (had) soche.' 

MANWICK (?) In Debenham. 
Lands of Earl Hugh. 

Goodrich a freeman under commendation to the Earl's pre- 
decessor, held 42 acres as a manor. Always i bordar. Then i plough- 
team, later half a team, now none. An acre of meadow. He was then 
valued at 20s., now at 13s. 4d. 

A freeman under the like commendation held 27 acres, and 7 
bordars, and i ploughteam, and i acre of meadow. And he was 
\^alued at los. Wailolf, a freeman under commendation to the Abbot 
of Ely, held 60 acres and 2 bordars. Then i ploughteam and a half, now 
2 teams. And a freeman held i acre, and 2 acres of meadow. Wood 
for 6 hogs. Valued (together) at 20s. Half the soche was the Abbot's 
and half the Earl's. 

A freeman under commendation (held) 13 acres and a half. 
Then a team of 2 oxen. And he was valued at 4s. 8^. The soche 
went in the same way.° 

SOHAM ? Outlands of Monks Soham. 

Lands of Hugh de Montfort. 

Two acres of land in demesne. Valued at 4d\ 

TONESTALL, a Hamlet of Framsden, in Thredling Hundred. 

Lands of Roger de Poictou. 

Edred a freeman under commendation to Wisgar held 60 acres 
and 2 acres of meadow. Always 2 bordars. And there was a freeman 
Edwy with 3 acres. And they were valued at los. Albert now holds. 
It is a league long and 5 quarantenes broad. And pays 5*^. in a gelt.* 

Lands of William de Varenne. 

Nicholas now holds. Leofwin a freeman held i carucate of land 
and 20 acres as a manor in King Edward's time. Always i villein. 
Then 2 plough teams in demesne, later and now i. And 2 acres of 
meadow. Now t rouncy. And i cow. Then 30 sheep, now 60. 
Then valued at 24s., now 255. The King and the Earl have soc.^ 

RINGSETT. 
Land of Richard, son of Earl Gislebert. 

Hardechin a freeman held 100 acres as a manor in King Edward's 
time ; now Goisfrid holds. Always 2 villeins. And 4 bordars. And 
I ploughteam in demesne. Then half a ploughteam belonging to the 

' Dom. ii. 446. ♦ Dom. ii. 3516. 

= Dom. ii. 2986, bis. ^ Dom. ii. 3986. 

3 Dom. ii. 410. 



DOMESDAY UNIDENTIFIED ENTRIES. 381 

men. Seven acres of meadow. Wood then for 30 hogs, now for 16. 
Then valued at 20s., now at 35s. And Godric a freeman held in King 
Edward's time 60 acres as a manor. Always i ploughteam. Then 
valued at los., now at 20s. And Codwi, a freeman, held 60 acres as 
a manor. Then i ploughteam. Then valued at los., now at 155. 
All this Goisfrid holds and gave it to farm for 70s. But he cannot have 
but 60s. To this manor Phin added in King William's time 3 freemen 
with 20 acres. Then i ploughteam. This is included in the same 
valuation. It is 8 quarantenes long and 3 bioad. And pays 5^. in a 
gelt. The King and the Earl have soc." 

PILBURY ? IN SOMERSHAM. 

Lands of Roger de Oburville. 

Dot a freeman held 60 acres as a manor in King Edward's timej 
now Roger holds in demesne, i bordar. Always i ploughteam. 
And I acre of meadow. Valued at 20s. The King and the Earl have 
soc. And 5 freemen hold 30 acres, included in the above valuation. 
The King and the Earl have soc' 

ELLA. 

Lands of Roger de Oburville. 

In demesne a freeman Alviet held 12 acres and a team of 2 oxen. 
Valued at 7s. And a freeman held 3 acres, and this last is included in 
the valuation of Somersham.^ 

OTLEY ? OuTLANDS OF Otley. 

Lands of Humfrey the Chamberlain. 

Humfrey now holds in demesne what a freeman formerly held, 
with three virgates, valued at 3<i. And a freewoman Listeva, with an 
acre valued at 2d.* 

BRICTICESHAUGH ? in Cretingham. 

Lands of Humfrey the Chamberlain. 

Here is a wood in which 16 hogs could be pastured in King Edward's 
time, now 4. And Amund holds it of Humfrey. And it is attached 
to Cretingham.^ 

TUDDENHAM (Outlands of Tuddenham). 

Lands of Roger de Rheims. 

Twenty acres in the demesne of Tuddenham, and included in its 
valuation. 

CLAYDON HUNDRED. 

Two acres which belong to the church of Tuddenham.* 



' Dom. ii. 3936. ■* Dom, ii. 4336. 

" Dom. ii. 404. ^ Dom. ii. 4236. 

3 Dom. ii. 404&. ^ Dom. ii. 4236. 




382 BURY ST. EDMUNDS. 

BURY ST. EDMUNDS. 

I HE Domesday account of Bury is as follows : "In the town 
where rests enshrined Saint Edmund, King and Martyr 
of glorious memory, Abbot Baldwin held in King Edward's 
time towards victualling the monks Ii8 men — and they 
could give and sell their land — and under them 52 bordars, 
from whom the abbot can have some httle aid, 54 freemen, 
poor enough, 43 almsmen each of whom has a bordar. 
Now there are 2 mills. And 2 stews or fish-ponds. This town was then 
valued at 10 pounds, now at 20. It is a league and a half in length and as 
much in breadth. And as often as a pound is paid in the Hundred to the 
gelt, then there go from the town 6od. to the victualling of the monks. 
But this is from the town as (it was) in the time of King Edward, if so be ; 
for now the town is contained in a greater circle of land which then used to 
be ploughed and seeded ; whereon there are 30 what with priests, deacons 
and clerks, 28 what with nuns and poor persons, who daily utter prayers 
for the King and for all Christian people ; 80 less five what with bakers, 
ale brewers, tailors, washerwomen, shoemakers, cloth workers, cooks, 
porters, controllers of household. And all these daily wait upon the Saint, 
and the Abbot, and the Brethren. Besides whom there are 13 stewards over 
the land who have their houses in the said town, and under them 5 bordars. 
Now 34 knights what with French ones and English ones, and under them 22 
bordars. Now altogether (there are) 342 houses in demesne on land of 
Saint Edmund's, which was under the plough in King Edward's time.'" 

Manor of the Grange in Bury, otherwise called Eastgate 
Barnes al. Holdernes. 

This manor belonged to the Abbey of St. Edmunds, and on the Disso- 
lution of the Monasteries passed to the Crown, and was granted in 1562 
to Robert Thorpe and Francis Boldero, and to the heirs of Francis. Francis 
died in 1579, when it passed to his son and heir, Henry Boldero, who had 
licence in 1586 to alien and conveyed the manor to Roger Barber,' who had 
married Mary, daughter of John Boldero. Edmund Barber, son and heir of 
Roger, had livery in 1616, and died in 1646, when the manor passed to his 
son and heir, Edmund Barber. In 1823 the manor was vested in Martin 
Thomas Cocksedge. 

Manor of Grange of Hencote. 

The Manor of Hencote is now entirely swallowed up in that of Hardwick, 
the two estates having been let together since 1649. It comprehends the 
formerly unenclosed part of the farm which Ues within the bounds of 
Bury St. Edmunds. The manor belonged to the Monastery of Bury, and 
passed on the Dissolution to the Crown, when it was in 1563 by Queen 
Mary granted to Sir Wm. Drury, of Hawstead, who was slain in France 
by Sir John Borough, Knt., in 1589, when it passed to his son and heir. 
Sir Robert Drury. From this time to the present the manor has passed 
in the same course as the Manor of Hawstead, in Thingoe Hundred, and is 
now vested in Gery Milner- Gibson- Cullum, F.S.A., of Hardwick House, 
near Bury, 2nd son of the Right Hon. Thomas Milner Gibson, M.P., 
of Theberton House, Saxmundham, who died in 1884, by Arethusa Susanna, 
only child of the Rev. Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, 8th Bart. 

The manor is included in a fine levied by Lionel Sharpe against SirRobert 
Drury and others in 1594.^ 

' Dom. ii. 372. "Fine, Mich. 28-29 Eliz. ^Fine, Trin. 36 Eliz. 



INDEX RERUM. 



Acton Arms, 260 

„ William, Inscription, 259 
Adair Arms, 53 
Alcock Arms, 240 
Alington Family, 76, 77 
Almott Arms, 189 
Andrews, Elizabeth, AVill, 2i,(sn. 
Argentine Arms, 78 

Family, 73, 74, 75 
,, Pedigree, 73 

Asgill Arms, 319 

Ashbocking Hall, Description of, 233, 235 
Ashburnham Arms, 240 
Aspal Arms, 357 
Aylmer Arms, 230 
Bacon Arms, 22 
Badley Arms, 240 
Banyard Arms, 158 
Barker Arms, 135, 340 
Barnard Arms, 231 
Bavent Arms, 64 

,, Family, 61, 62 
Baylham Hall, View of, 257 
Benacre Hall, 8, 10 
Bence Arms, 167 

Bird, James, Poet and Miller, 360, 361 
Bishop's Hall, Description of, 251 
Biskele Family, 65, 66 
Blois, Sir John, Ruined by Gambling, 221 
Blomfield Arms, 286 

,, Family, Inscriptions, 286 
Blything Hundred, 1-223 

,, Parishes and Manors, 2, 3 
Booking Arms, 235 

,, Edmund, Inscription, 235 

,, Family, 233, 234 
Bohun Arms, 190 

,, Edmund, Account of, 187, 188 

,, Family, 187-191 
Bosmere and Claydon Hundred, 225-381 

,, ,, ,, Parishes and Manors, 

225, 226 
Bothe Arms, 245 
Braham Family, iio«. 
Bramford Hall, 265, 266 
Brewse Family, 328 
Brewster Arms, 213 

,, Family, 212 
Bright, John, Inscription, 274 
Brook Hall, Description, 23 
Brooke, Elizabeth, Lady, Funeral Sermon on, 

220 
Buckingham, Duke of, Beheaded without Trial, 

Burgh, De, Family, 186, i86«. 
Burnaville Arms, 260 
Calthorp, Hollowaj' — , Arms, 208 
Capel, Lord, Trial and Execution, 356 



Carthew Arms, 10 

Chantry obtained on peculiar conditions, 271 

Chapman Arms, 20 

Chappyne Arms, 285 

Chediston Hall, Description, 36 

Chester, Lupus, Earl of, Extravagances of, 72 

Chrysonaleia of A. Monday, 26 

Clopton, Sir William, Will of, 90 

Coke Arms, 167 

,, Family, lo^n 
Collett Arms, 371 

„ Family, 370 
Colville Arms, 319 

,, Richard, Inscription, 318 
,, Robert, Inscription, 319 
Cradock Arms, 207 
Crane Family, 291, 291^ 
Creke Arms, 312 

,, Family, 127^ 
Crowfield Hall, Sale of, in parts, 295 
Crowley Arms, 240, 248 

,, John, Inscription, 247 
Customs, Peculiar, of Bramford Manor, 266 
Dacre Arms, 10 

„ Family, 6, 7, 43 

,, Lord, Trial of, 7 
Dale Arms, 374 
Dawtrey, Pedigree, 275H. 
Denney Arms, 283 
Despencer Family, 124 

,, Thomas, Lord, Execution of, 124 

Doughty Arms, 162 
Duke Family, 27, 28 
Dunwich, Knights Templars in, 60 
Edgar Arms, 371 

Elizabeth, Queen, Visits of, 7, 105, io6, 308 
Ely, Bishop of. Shot at, 9 
Everard Arms, 118 

,, Pedigree, 118 
Fitz-Osbert Arms, 179 
Fitz-Walter, Maude, Poisoning of, 46 
Frankleyne, Definition of a, 45 
Gascoigne Arms, 248 
Gascoyne, Theobald, Inscription, 247 
Glover Arms, 6g 

,, Family, 68, 69 
Gooch Arms, 10 

,, Family, 9, 10 
Goodall Arms, 360 
Gosbeck Arms, 303 
Gosnold, John, Misdeeds of, 284H. 
Greilly Arms, 377 
Gresham Arms, 251 

Grove, Christopher, Curious Inscription, 3i7«. 
Gunpowder Plot, Curious Poem on, 26 
Halesworth, List of Rectors, 79 
Hartopp Arms, 207 
Harwood Arms, 295 



11. 



INDEX RERUM. 



Hastings Arms, 143 
Hawes Arms, 231 
Helmingham Hall, 305, 308, 312 
Hemingstone Hall, 319 
Henham Hall, 83 
Heveningham Arms, 96 

,, Family, 92-96 

Hopton Arms, 15 

,, Family, 14-17, 63 
Hoskins, Elizabeth, Verses on, 57» 
Huntingfield Arms, 106 

,, Family, 100-104 

,, Hall, 105, 106 

,, List of Rectors, 107 

Ingham Arms, 162 
Jenney Arms, no 

,, Family, 108-110 
Joyce or Joce Arms, 312 
Kemp Arms, 173 

,, Family, 170-172 
Kempe Arms, 276 
Kerdeston Arms, 31 

,, Family, 80 

Knapp Arms, 254 
Leiston Abbey, 112 
Leman Arms, 27 

,, Family, 26, 27 

,, Monument, 297 
Little Arms, 245 
Loveday Arms, 272 
Lytton Arms, 245 
Malby Arms, 358 
Martin Arms, 319 
Meadow Arms, 322 
Meadows Arms, 126 
Mettingham College, 184 
Micklefield Arms, 20 

,, Pedigree, 18 

William, Will of, 84 
Middleton, Lady W. Fowle, Inscription, 245;,-. 
Mildmay, Henry, Will of, 88 
Moated Spaces, Peculiar, 236 
Monday, Anthony, Poems of, 26 
Monmouth, Duke of. Execution, 335 
Needham Arms, 248 

Nettlestead Hall, Description of, 327, 332, 335 
Nightingale Arms, 248 
Norfolk, Elizabeth, Duchess of. Three Wills of, 

354 
Norris Arms, 167 

,, Henry, Execution of, 6h. 
Oake Arms, 245 
Parkyns Family, 35 
Pettus Arms, 40 

,, Family, 34, 35 
Pierrepont, Arms, lo 

Pedigree, 5 
Pirnho, Pedigree, 219 



Playters Arms, 179 

,, Christopher, Inscription, 176 
,, Family, 176-179 
,, Frances, Inscription, 178 
,, Sir Lyonel, Sequestration, 178 
,, Thomas, Inscription, 176 
„ William, Inscription, 176 
Foley Arms, 240 

,, Family, 238-240 
Poynings Arms, 217 

,, Family, 213-216 

„ Sir Edward, Account of, 215 
Quaplode Arms, 22 
Ratcliffe, Thomas, Earl of Sussex, Account of, 

216 
Rivulets, formerly Seaports, 65 
Rous Arms, 84 

,, Family, 82, 83 
Salter Arms, 251 
Scrivener Arms, 151 
Segrave, Nicholas de. Trial of, 131 
Shrubland Hall, Description, 245 
Snell Arms, 200 
Sotterley Arms, 179 
Southwell Arms, 243 

,, Sir Richard, Tomb of, 242 

Southwold, Fire at, 156 
Sparke Arms, 377 

Spurdance, the Martyr, Persecution of, 284«. 
Stradbroke Arms, 84 
Stubbing Arms, 347 
Style Arms, 287 
Swillington Arms, 129 
Theobald Arms, 248 
Thomas Arms, 267 
Thorington Hall, 166, 185/?. 
Tollemache Arms, 312 

,, Family, 307-312 

,, Inscriptions, 308-310 

Townshend Family, 25, 26 
Valence Arms, 143 
Vanneck Arms, 96 
Watson Arms, 343 
Wentworth Arms, 336 

Family, 329-336 
,, Fourth Lord, Account of, 333-334 

,, Lady, Poem on, by Mr. Cobbold, 336 

Margery, Will of, 330 
\\'esthall Hall, 189, 190 
Westleton Hall, 196 
Whinburgh Arms, 10 

Windsor, Andrews, Lord, Dines with the King. 
257 
,, Arms, 260 
Wingfield, Harbottle, Inscription, 395 
Wodehouse Arms, 295 
Wood Arms, 20 
Woodcock Arms, 126 
Woods Family, 196 
Wrentham Hall, View of, 210 



INDEX LOCORUM. 



Abbots, 2, 55, 57, 58 

Ackworth, 20 

Acton, 229 

Acton Burnel, co. Salop, 369 

Agincourt, i6, 142, 235 

Aishe Manor, 235 

Akenham, 225, 227-231, 277, 

278, 318M. 
Aldborough, 114 
Aldeburgh, 166 
Alderton, 275, 370 
Aldringham, 2, 4, iii, 113- 

116, 168 
Allesley, co. Warw., 311 
Alnesbourne Close, 236 
Alnetune, 59 
Alnwick, 50, 52 
Althorp, 39, 105 
Ampthill, CO. Bedf., 142 
Ansgar Honor, 163 
Appleton, CO. Norf., 118 
Aquitaine, 140 
Archers M., 226, 300-301 
Ardleigh, co. Essex, 347 
Argentein M., 74 
Arkesey Ch., 265, 329 
Arrat, 148 
Arundel Castle, 47 
Arwater, 340 
Ash, 235«. 
AshlDacking, 225, 232-237, 294, 

313 
Ashfield, 2,lt 128 
Ash Hall, 232, 235 
Ashwell Thorpe, 57, 60, 83 
Aspal M., i95«., 2i9«. 
Asshe juxta Helmingham M., 

235 

Assington, co. Norf., 75 

Athol, 353 

Austin's M., 2, 55, 58, 109, 127 

Babergh Hund., 139, 182, 
i86w, 216, 245, 260, 266, 279, 
283, 289,291,295,298,303, 

325j355>357,359«v363,363"- 
Babysford Manor, 252 
Bacon's Manor, 3, 192 
Baconsthorpe, 25, 158 
Bacton, 67, 12'jn., 362 
Baddingham H. M., 134 
Bade Hall M., 2, 115 
Badewich, 139 
Badingham Hall, i8i« 
Badley, 225, 238-240, 247, 248, 

298 
Baker's Hall, 279 
Ballymena Castle, co. Antrim, 

S3 

A2 



Banham, co. Norf., 8 
Bannockburn, 155 
Banyards M., 3, 158 
Bardwell, 179, 212 
Barham, 22, 225, 241-245, 281, 

283, 321, 360, 379 
Barkeston M., 330 
Barking, 6, 225, 238, 240, 246- 

248, 260 
Barnes, al. Bernes M., 226, 

273 
Barrington's M., 3, 186, 191 
Barrow Church, 330 
Barsham M., 38, 40 
Barton, 131, 132 
Barton, Little, 34K. 
Basingstoke, 10 
Batsworth, 239 
Battisford, 60, 226, 249-254, 

342, 343 
Battle Abbey, 72 
Battlesdon, co. Bedf., 240 
Bavents M., 2, 34, 40, 78^., 

2o8w., 342«. 
Baylham, 226, 255-260, 265, 

297> 329, 377 
Baynard Barony, 138 
Baynards, 45, 157 
Bealings, Gt., igyn., 324, 366 
Beardon, co. Essex, 275W. 
Beaudesert, 259 
Beauvais, 72 
Beccles, 26-28, 88, 113, i27«, 

166, 175-177, 206, 274, 297 
Beches, co. Essex, 177 
Beckenham, co. Kent, 109 
Bedford co., 74, 91, 142, 216, 

240, 333-335- 
Bedingfield, 56, 151, 197 
Beeston, co. Norf., 83 
Bekesworth M., loi, 102 
Belstead, 134, 295 
Belton, 89 
Belvoir, 355 

Benacre, 2, 5-10, 43, 44, 62, 
64-66, 69, 86, 86«., 88, 126, 
i26«., 164W., 165, 211-212 
Benges Manor, 102 
Benhall, 28, 69, no, 166 
Bentley, 236, 273, 307, 308, 343 
Benwell, co. Northd., 53 
Bergh, 66 

Bergham Coppice, 242 
Bergholt, E., 260, 264, 339, 

347, 354 
Berks, co., 22, 142, 244,258 
Bermesden, 297 
Bernay Abbey, 289, 290, 366 



Bernham, 154 
Berry, Duchy, 271 
Berrys al. Holkham, 177 
Beryshall Manor, 225 
Berwick-on-Tweed, 98, 157, 

329 
Besemera, 59 
Besthorp, 120 
Bexsted, co. Essex, 231 
Bickering, 278 
Bilboa, CO. Limerick, 83 
Bildeston, 150M., 286 
Billingford, 28, 177, 178 
Birch, CO. Essex, 242 
Bishop's H. M., 226, 249-251, 

253 
Bithring, 32 
Blackbourn Hund., 195W., 

Blackheath, 7, 142 
Blackmere, 103 
Black Swan Court, 355 
Blakeburgh Priory, 353 
Blakenham, 226, 261-263, 317, 

329= 330 
Blaunchards M., 2, 92, 97 
Blaxhall Manor, 365 
Blenche's M., 3, 202, 208 
Blomvile's M., 225 
Blueflory Cove M., 2, 44 
Blundeston M., 2, 86-89 
Blythburgh, 2, 11, 17-20, 25, 
44, 45j 59. 61, 63, 70, 80, 82, 
84, 128, 129, 159, 163, 164, 
167, 180, 187, 195, 196, 198, 
209, 219-221 
Blythe, River, i, 23, 106 
Blythford, 2, 16, 17-20, 84-85, 

323 
Blything Hund., 1, 36, 108, 
125, 192, 291, 297, 325, 343, 

352«-, 374«- 
Bocket Hall, 192 
Bocking 225, 226, 232-235, 

293-296, 313, 314, 342, 343 
Bokenham, 47 
Bolton, 329 

Bondevi, co. Line, 100 
Bordesley, 258, 259 
Bosmere and Claydon Hund., 

22, 203, 225-381 
Bosworth, 215, 359 
Bothwell, N.B., 207 
Boughton, 355 
Boulogne, 76, 322, 355 
Boxstead, 238 
Brabant, 339 
Braconash, co. Norf., 335 



IV. 



INDEX LOCORUM. 



Bradenham, loi, 257, 258 
Bradford, co. Wilts, 88 
Bradwell, 259, 294, 371 
Brahams Manor, 109 
Brames, i6i 
Bramfield, 2, 15, 16, 21-23, 

180, 189 
Bramford, 226, 245, 259, 260, 

262, 264-269, 279, 329, 360, 

379, 380 
Brampton, 2, 19, 24-28, 84, 

187, 199, 229, 297>z. 
Brandeston, 126W., 365M., 369 
Brandon, 147, 179 
Brantham, 285 
Braundeston Manor, 330 
Braxstead, Great, 139 
Bray, co. Berks, 22, 244 
Brecete v. Bricett 
Bredfield, 109, no 
Brendehall M., 75 
Brent fen M., 2, 14, 127, 128 

187, 198, 201, 203M, 221 
Bretagne Honor, 204 
Bretby, co. Derby, 132 
Bricett, 226, 251, 270-276, 345 
Bricticeshaugh, 381 
Bridg-e Place M., 226, 285-286 
Brightlingsea, co. Essex, 172 
Brightwell, 233, 242, 246, 286, 

297. 339 
Brion Castle, 299 
Brisingham, 36 
Bristol, 83, 124, 285, 286 
Brockdish, 187 
Brockley Hall M., 267«. 
Brokes, 238 
Bromberry al. Raynsbrough 

al. Blomviles al Sulyards 

M., 225, 306, 314 
Brome Hall, co. Norf., 245^. 
Bromfeld Church, 121 
Bromley, co. Kent, gin., 228 
Brook Hall, 3, 23, 166 
Brooke Hall, 260 
Brook's Hall, 230 
Broome, co. Norf., 260 
Broomswell M., 51 
Broughton M., 226, 357-358 
Browne Hall, 297 
Brownslade, 151 
Broxburn, co. Herts, 331 
Bruisyard, 28, 82, 176 
Brunslip, co. Denbigh, 28 
Bucks. CO., 19, 89, 257, 258, 

330 
Bugges, 160 
Bulchamp, 2, 16, 19, 29-31, 

80W., 81, 8i«., 84 
Bulmer, 150W. 
Bumpstead, co. Essex, 75 
Bungay, 9, 42, 88, 184, 189, 

218, 343 
Bunny, co. Notts., 35 
Burehall al. Bury Hall al. 

Berryshall, 225, 306, 314, 315 
Bures, 359^. 
Burgh, 6, 68, 219 
Burghard M., 3, 158 
Burley, co. Rutland, 333 
Burnaville Manor, 342^ 
Burstall, 329 
Burton Haugh, 2, 92, 96 



Bury, CO. Bucks, ig 

Bury St. Edmunds, 22, 23, 26, 
27, 70. 9i> 229, 230, 240, 
259«, 260, 263, 274, 343, 360 

Butley Priory, in, 112 

Buxley Manor, 161 

Buxlow, 2, 32, log, 116 

Bywodescroft, 345 

Cadleys M., 225, 306, 314 

Caen, 353 

Caistor, 8g 

Calais, 82, 108, 140, 157, 331- 

333> 355 
Calborne, 151 
Camblesforth H., ,co. York, 

15 
Cambridge, g, 74, Sgw., loi, 

118, 187, 248, 272, 278, 286, 

317W., 330 
Cambridge co., 259, 287, 354 
Camel, i86 

Campanis Manor, 342«. 
Campis Manor, 235 
Campsey Ash, 68, 109, no, 

Canterbury, 7, 14, 377 

Capel Court, 355 

Carbonells, with Chilton and 

Butters M., 291 
Carbridge Manor, i 
Cardigan Castle, 262, 328 
Carleton, co. Norf., 174^. 
Carlford Hund., 15, 192, 

igyn., 225, 228, 287«., 366, 

366M. 
Carlisle, 340 

Carlton, 69, 125, 226, 265, 266 
Carlton Colvile, 318 
Carmarthen Castle, 262, 328 
Carrow, co. Norf., 176, 177 
Carthagena, 9 
Cartleigh, 274 
Caskisbury, co. Herts., 357 
Casterton, Gt., co. Rutland, 

375 
Castle Acre, co. Norf., 100 
Charlecote, 177 
Charles Hall M., 226, 343-344 
Charsfield, 26, 369 
Chebeton (? Theberton), 116 
Chediston, 2, 16, 33-35, 40, 61, 

62, 78«., 98, 99, 200, 208, 

2o8n. 
Chelsea, 7 

Chester co., 25, 72, 311, 312 
Chetwyne, co. Salop, 25 1«. 
Chevers, igo 

Chickering M., 2, 3, 126, i8i 
Childs M., 226, 302, 303 
Chilham M., co. Kent, 330 
Chilton, 291, 363, 363M. 
Chippenham, co. Camb., 259 
Chishall, co. Essex, 230 
Church Brampton, 131 
Church Haugh Hills, 158 
Chyselford Ch., 124W. 
Clare co., 243 
Clare Honor, 200, 232-234, 

238, 239, 273 
Claxton, 30 
Claydon, 3, 8g, ig4, 198, 201, 

225, 226, 228-230, 260, 277- 

279, 297, 348, 322 



Cleeve's or Cliff's or Herne- 

thorne M., 3, 194, 198-200 
Cleveland, co. York, 233 
Cliff Mill, 218 
Clopton, 230, 317^. 
Cockenhatch, co. Herts., 247 
Cockfield, 3, 15, 44, 96, 171, 

196, 220, 221, 260, 314 
Cockthorpe, co. Norf., 19 
Coddenham, 226, 280-287, 

303«, 321, 351 
Codham, co. Essex, 330 
Codreth, co. Herts, 238 
Coggeshall, 147, 197, 362 
Cokes, 171 

Colchester, 182, 300, 356 
Coldham Manor, 2, 69 
Collumbine M., 247, 248 
Colneis Hund., 342^. 
Colston Hall M., 134 
Combs, 239, 247, 248, 253, 

313^., 342n. 
Cookley, 2, 36, 38, 40, g4, 104, 

170 
Cooks-upon-Cranes M., 290- 

292 
Cornerth Hall M., 359^ 
Cornwall co.,216, 355 
Corton Ch., 114 
Cosford Hund., 338, s^Sn., 

346, 347. 373 
Cotton Hempnall, 342^. 
Coventry, 132 

Cowling, 203, 205, 353, 354 
Cove, 6, 42, 211 
Covehithe, 2, 7, 8, 42-44, 211, 

213 
Cove, South, 2, 44, 65 
Cowdrye, co. Sussex, 14 
Craigie, co. Linlithgow, 10 
Cranford, co. Northants, 20 
Cransley, co. Northants, 20 
Cranworth, co. Norf., 242 
Cratfield, 2, 12, 45-53, 118, 

151, 291 
Cratfield le Roos, 2, 52, 172, 

189, 325, 343 
Craven's, 2, 80, 82, 84, 85, 

3^3, 324 
Greeting, 226, 287M.-292, 362 
Greeting All Saints M., 226, 

287^., 289 
Greeting apud Montem al. 

Derebolt's M., 226, 360-361 
Greeting St. Mary M., 67, 226, 

289-290 
Greeting St. Olave M., 226, 

289-2g2 
Greke, 174, 307, 312 
Creke's al. Helmingham al. 

Cressy's al. Joyce's H. M., 

225, 306-312 
Cressy, 30, 96, 157, 213 
Cretingham, 260, 381 
Grofilde v. Crowfield 
Gropredy, 333 
Crowfield, 226, 235W., 244, 

245, 260, 284, 293-296, 325 
Crow's Hall, 334 
Culpho, 112 
Curly, 5 
Dagworth Manor, 152 



INDEX LOCORUM. 



Dale H. M., 187, 226, 373, 374 
Dalham M., 120, i64«., 180, 

184, 202W., 220M. 
Dallingho Manor, 21 
Darmsden, 226, 2<^6n., 260, 

297-298 
Darsham, 2, 54-58, 66, 83, 112, 

126, 197 
Dartford, 164 
Debden, 231 

Debenham, 66, 325, 334, 380 
Denbigh co., 28 
Denham, 162 
Denneys with Sackvill Rents 

M., 226, 282-283 
Dennington, 82, 83, 162 
Denston Hall, 357 
Deptford, 26, 105 
Derboughs, 283 
Derby co., 5, 319 
Derebolts v. Greeting, &c. 
Dereheys, 362 
Devon co., 83, 369 
Dickelburgh, 178 
Diddingston, co. Hunts, 15 
Diss, CO. Norf., 46, 200 
Ditchingham, 51, 118 
Doddinghurst Place, 275 
Dodneis Priory, 307 
Donston, 118 
Dorningworth M., 51 
Dorset co., 77 
Dover Castle, 100, 204, 215, 

353 
Drefseld, 52 
Drivers, 367 
Dublin, 53 

DufReld H., co. Derby, 319 
D'Uffords Bridge, 23 
Dulwich, 371 
Dundalk, 207 
Dunham, Gt., co. Norf., 75, 

233, 234 
Dunstable, 266, 268 
Dunstall Manor, 262 
Dunwich, i, 2, 11-15, 17, 19, 

59, 60, 82-84, 168, 171, 180, 

181, 186, 197-199, 212, 220, 

361 
Dunmow, 46 
Earl Soham, 370 
Earl Stonham 226, 283, 283, 

351-358 
Earsham, 9 

Eastbridge, Theberton, 1 13W. 
East Greenwich M., 60, 114 
Easton, 34, 82 
Easton Bavent, 2, 8, 6i 
Eastonstone, 155 
Eastworne M., co. Essex, 93 
Eden H., co. Cumb., 83 
Edwardston, 172 
Egremond, 47 
Eleigh, 28 
Ella, 381 

Ellough, 177, 179 
Elmham, co. Norf., 309 
Elmsall, N., co. York., 329^. 
Elmsett, 272, 338, 338K., 339, 

346, 347 
Elnestow, co. Bedf., 216 
Elsing, CO. Norf., 177 



Eltham, co. Kent, 275M., 340 

Ely, 243, 246, 318, 319 

Ely Priory, 266, 268 

Elyngham, 67 

Empole's M., i86, 190-193, 
374W. 

Enfield, co. Middx. , 247 

Eriswell, 112 

Essex CO., 15, 46, 92-94, loi, 
105, 109, 118, 142, 146, 147, 
172, 177, 191, 197, 205, 220, 
227, 230, 231, 234, 242, 247, 
251, 275, 289, 308, 330, 333, 

347. 355. 362, zji 
Estena, 351 

Eston Gosbeck Ch., 302 
Estuna v. Gosbeck 
Eton College, 261, 290 
Euston, 340 
Everdon Priory, 290 
Evesham, 74, loi, 153 
Exeter, 126^. 
Eye, 32, 34, 88, 109, 267 
Eye Castle, 46, i95«., 205 
Eyecliff, 155 
Eye Honor, loi, 103, 149, 152, 

321 

Eykering, co. Notts, 330 

Fachedon, 264 

Facumb, 100 

Fakeden, 264 

Falaise, 100 

Falesham H. M., 2, 136 

Falkenham Manor, 51 

Farnborough, 142 

Faukedon, 264 

Felix H., CO. Essex, 242 

Felixstowe, 51, 230 

Felsham, 251^. 

Feltwell, CO. Norf., 377 

Fenditton, 76 

Ferditton Ch., 211 

Ferganut, 145 

Fersfield Ch., 93H. 

Feversham, co. Camb., 287 

Filliols M., 361-362 

Finborough Hall, 343 

Fincham, co. Norf., 285 

Finchingfield, 172, 247 

Fitton's Manor, 117 

Flanders, 140, 213 

Flede H. M., 226, 323, 325 

Fleethall M., 291, 363, 364 

Flegg, 197 

Fleming's Hall, 56 

Fleyfordsfeld, 282 

Flixton, 53, 189, 291, 306, 343 

Florida, 285 

Flowton, 226, 299-301, 329 

Flude, H. M., 226, 363-364 

Fordley, 123, 126 

Folkingham, co. Line, 29 

Fordley, 2, 58, 116 

Fornset, 283 

Forth, River, 98, 157 

Framlingham, 49, 50, 116, 
125, 130, I32W-, 176, i83>z., 
231, 235, 267, 358, 359, 361 

Frampton Manor, loi 

Framsden, 380 

Freathby, co. Leic, 207 

Frenchwood, 166 



Frense, 28, 82, 177 
Fressingfield, 150, 298, 318 
Freston, 116, 132 
Fricketts M., 226, 265, 268 
Friers Manor, 149 
Friston, 32, 108 
Frostenden, 2, 65, 66, 68, 

i2tn. 
Fulesham M., 130 
Fulham, 229 
Furdayes, 136 
Fyllyolys M., 361 
Gamultston, co. Notts, 5 
Garboldisham, co. Norf., 172 
Gascony, 74, loi, 157, 328 
Gaywood Manor, 51 
Genoa, 9 
Gepes Hund., 225 
Gerrard's M., 2, 55, 58 
Gibraltar, 69 
Gillingham, 83, 118 
Gippesewyck H., 236 
Gipping, 225, 278, 331 
Giselham Manor, 66 
Gislingham Manor, 108 
Gissing, 15, 152, 171, 239, 274 
Glemham, 2, 36, 62, 125, 147, 

158 
Glemsford Ch., 282, 285 
Glendower M., 141 
Glevering Hall, 96 
Godalming, 109 
Goldaungre M., 94 
Gorleston, 95 
Gosbeck, 226, 285, 287, 302- 

303. i^7 
Gosfield, CO. Essex, 330, 332, 

2i3, 347 
Gosford Green, Coventry, 132 
Grantham, co. Line, 311 
Gratinges v. Creating St. 

Olave 
Gray Friars, Mon., 124 
Greenwich M., i 

,, CO. Kent, 247 

Greffeild H. M., 235, 236 
Grenada, 9 

Grestein Abbey, 288, 290, 325 
Gretingham, 282 
Grimston H., 251, 339, 342 
Grundisburgh, 6, 15, 44, 195, 

219, 220, 296 
Guisnes, io8, 278 
Gunnildshawe M., 2, 46 
Gunston, 109, n6 
Gyfford M., 290^. 
Hacklington, co. Line, 18 
Hackney, 19, 354 
Hadham, 355 
Hadleigh, 125, 197, 361 
Hales H. M., 2, 27 
Halesworth, 2, 16, 34, 71-79, 

121, 158, 159, 170, 185^., 

200, 208, 274, 361 
Halifax, co. York., 339 
Halstead, ,co. Essex, 234 
Halvergate Manor, 51 
Hamlake, co. York, 52, 157, 

206, 265M., 328, 330 
Hammonds M., 226, 323-325 
Hampshire co., 10, 18, 258, 

260, 275M., 364 



VI. 



INDEX LOCO RUM. 



Hampstead, co. Middx., 239 
Hampton, g 
Hapesburg M., 47 
Hardley, 177, i77«. 
Hardwick House, 263 
Harefield House, 171 
Harkstead Ch., 370 
Harnesshe in Ashe, 236 
Harneys or Harveys M., 225, 

235, 236, 294 
Harrierd, co. Hants., 258 
Harrington, co. Northants, 

118, 310 
Hartismere Hund., 36, 61, 

195W., 197, 219M., 225, 342«. 
Harwich, 234 

Hasketon, 192, 228, 230, 335 
Hastings, 21, 72, 145, i86ra. 
Hatfield Peverel, 314 
Haugh M., CO. York., 330 
Haughley, 159, 250 
Haultney 275W. 
Haverland M., 108 
Hawes Manor, 236 
Hayham, i8, 19 
Haynford, co. Norf., 34 
Heatherton Park, 53 
Hedingham, co. Essex, 308 
Helmesley Castle, 330 
Helmingham, iTjn., 225, 233, 

234, 236, 303-315 
Hellington, co. Norf., 127W. 
Helmingsland, 379-380 
Helmingstone, 226, 228, 230, 

236, 274, 283, 284, 287, 303, 
316-320, 322, 374, 379 

Henham, 2, 14, 18, 19, 22, 23, 
29-31, 57. 60, 66, 80, 83-85, 
112, i36»., 143, 154, 166, 
179. 183, 323 

Henley, 226, 320-322 

Henstead, 2, 5, 6, 86-91, 166, 
2iin., 277 . 

Henstead Pounds M., 88 

Hereford, 10 

Hernethorne M., 3, 198-201 

Herringfleet, 108 

Herst Pierrepoint, 5, 87 

Herts CO., 22, 34, 72, 74, 75, 
105, 142, 145, 177, 178, 191, 
238, 244, 247, 331, 355, 357 

Hesteley H. M., 197 

Hetherset, 20 

Heveningham, i, 2, 4, 40, 52, 
85, 92-97, 105, 115, 118, 
I50W., 152, 170, 173, 181, 
198, 340 

Hexham, 33 1 

Higham Church, 347 

Hill House, 347 

Hintlesham, 177, 340 

Hinton, 2, 6, 11, 16, 275 

Hinxton, 53 

Hitcham, 373 

Hockwold, CO. Norf., 95, 152 

Holbeck Woodhouse, 5 

Holbrook, 289, 322 

Holkham, 52, 105, 166, 177 

Hollesley, 370 

Holme, CO. Notts, 5 

Holt, CO. Norf., 26 



Holton, 2, 16, 83, 98, 99, 192, 
278 

Holy Wells, Ipswich, 336 

Honnington, 35 

Hoo Manor, 51 

Hopton, 12 

Horham Manor, 102 

Horham Jernegan M., 362 

Horkesley-B entley, 1 46 

Horringer, 240 

Horseheath, 76, 77 

Horsett, 75 

Horsford, 149 

Hotun, CO. York., 145 

Houston Manor, 339W. 

Hovell's M., 2, 34, 37, 119 

Hoxne Hund., i, 4, 82«., 85, 
lom., 117, 162, 181W., 197, 
289«., 302, 344, 345, 362 

Huningham, co. Norf., 242 

Huntingdon co., 15, 45, 307 

Huntingdon M., 102 

Huntingfield, 2, 12, 89, 100- 
107, 117, 125, 165 

Icklingham, 235, 239 

Ickworth, 234, 363 

Ilketshall, 28, 185W., 203 

Illarnes M., 260 

Imber Court, co. Surrey, 339 

Incolneston, 278 

Ingham, 44 

Ingleby, South, 128, 203 

Ingoldsby, co. Line, 14 

Ipswich, 15, 16, 32, 51, 53, 57, 
83;?., 96, 104, ii5«-, 146, 
147, 177. 187. 220, 225, 230, 
231, 236, 243-245, 251, 253, 
25s, 259, 260, 262, 265, 267, 
274, 277, 283, 286, 289, 294- 
298, 302, 310, 311, 313, 314, 
319. 322, 330, Z3,4-i2(^, 339. 
340, 34o»., 357, 359, 366- 

375 
Ireland, 76, 96, 207, 221, 242, 

243, 289, 339, 343 
Iseham, 109 
Islington, 117 
Ixworth M., i95«. 
Jerningham, 2gi«. 
Jerusalem, 145 
Jersey, 10 
Jerviswood, 240 
Joan's Manor, 253 
Jordaines, 283 
Jorvaulx Abbey, 145 
Jurdis, 2, 130, 135 
Kedington, 195 
Kelsale, 55, 112, 116, 123, 181, 

221 
Kelvedon, co. Essex, 275, 

275W. 
Kenilworth, 139 
Keninghall, co. Norf., 118 
Kensington, 20, 260 
Kent CO., 27, 91, 102, 105, 109, 

142, 157, 165, 177, 214, 234, 

239, 247, 275«., 330, ^^i, 

339, 340, 353 
Kenton, 158, 226, 265, 268-269, 

324 
Kentwell Hall, 139, 360 
Kerham, 157 



Kersey Priory, 247, 322 
Kesewyk, 41 
Kesgrave, 267 

Ketsalfield M., 226, 302, 303 
Ketteringham M., 74, 94, 95 
Kettleburgh, 21, 286, 343^. 
Ketts de Campo M., 235, 236 
Kew, CO. Middx., 298 
Kidderminster, 2C,in. 
Killard, yy 

King's Lynn, co. Norf. , 207 
King's Manor, 2, 69 
Kingstown, co. Kent, 165 
Kingston-on-Thames, 83 
Kinrara, co. Inverness, 89 
Kirby Cane, co. Norf., 57 
Kirkham Down, 7 
Kirkway, 278 

Kitty's of the Fields M., 236 
Knebworth, co. Herts, 22, 177, 

244 

Knoddishall or Knottishall, 2, 
28, 32, 108-110, 114, 116, 
127, 161, 176, 339, 370 

Knottforth Bridge, 121 

Knowleshill, Essex, 109 

Kyesfeld, 239 

Lackford Hund., 8, 34, 7372., 

155, 353, 353«- 
Lambeth, 335;?., 356 
Lancaster co., 166 

„ Honor, 230, 277 

Landguard Fort, 284W. 
Langedene al. Langheden al. 

Langdon, 264, 265 
Langhale M,, co. Norf., 317, 

3i8 
Langford H., co. Essex, 25i«. 
Langley, 29, 100 
Lanherne, co. Cornw., 216, 

355 
Laughton, co. Sussex, 7, 355 
Lavant, co. Sussex, 9 
Lavenham, 177, 294 
Lawshall M., 245, 260, 265, 

279, 283, 287, 289, 295, 298, 

303, 325, 357, 3^3 
Laxfield, 8, 20, 26, 55, 59, 

82M., 98, 100, III, 112, 123, 

i8i>2., 274, 304, 349 
Lea, CO. Liiic, 27 
Leasowes, co. Salop, 311 
Leeds Castle, 157 
Leet, N., S., E., and W. , 95 
Leicester co., 89, 207, 330 
Leiston, 2, 4, 32, 82, 108, no, 

lion., 111-116, 123, i27«., 

i6i 
Leiston Priory, 57, n2, 113, 

147, 168 
Lenwales or Lembalde's or 

Lymbolds M., 3, 194, 198, 

201 
Letheringham, 192 
Leverington, co. Camb., u8 
Levington, 336, 342^. 
Lewes, 139, 153, 242 
Limerick co., 243 
Lincoln co., 14, 18, 27, 29, 76, 

82, 100, loi, 145, 191, 203, 

229, 311, 330, 354 
Lincoln's Inii, 34, 267 



INDEX LOCO RUM. 



vu. 



Lings Manor, 226, 251 
Linlithgow co., 10 
Linstead, 16, 117, ii8 
Linstead Magna, 2, 117, 119 
Linstead Parva, 2, 36, n8 
Liskeard, co. Ches., 311 
Livermere, 52, 245M., 260, 279, 

319 
Loes Hund., 8, 21, 26, 50, 183, 
324, 343«., 358, 359, 36SM., 

369 
London, 9, 26, 35, 46, 57, 88, 

95. 961 98, 105, 143, 147, 
157, i59> i72> 179, 187, 203, 
205, 219, 229, 230, 231, 237, 
239, 240, 245«., 250, 251, 
257. 259, 275«-, 297, 318, 
331, 334, 339, 342, 354, 355, 
357, 361, 371 

Losa Chapel, 271 

Loudham, 19, 20, 28 

Lound, 44, 109 

Lover's Castle, 353 

Lovetot M., 226, 266-267 

Lowestoft, 95 

Luc/s Manor, 251 

Ludham, 212 

Lymoges Diocese, 271 

Lyngges M., 226, 250-252 

Lynlegh, 73 

Lynn, co. Norf., 40 

Madeley, co. Staffs., 109 

Manton Ch., co. Rutl., 347 

Manton Manor, 373 

Manwick, 380 

Margery, Dame, M., 2, 71, 78 

Markyate, 266, 268 

Marlesford, 231 

Martlesham, 161, 162 

Masham, 330, 331 

Massingham Pva. Ch., 313 

Medenham (Mendham), 100 

Melbourne, co. Camb., 74 

Melford, Long, 89, gm., 139 

Melga, 182 

Mells, 2, 16, 21, 36, 120, 121, 
184 

Melton, Gt., co. Norf., 271, 
338, 3s8n., 370 

Mendham, 36, 39, 100, loi, 
ioi«., 104, 151, 187, 287W., 
289, 289W., 302 

Mendlesham, 284, 348, 350, 

3('3 
Meredale Londe, 121 
Metfield, 118, 166, 287^., 289, 

289«., 302 
Mettingham, 9, 22, 23, 102, 

184, 160 
Mettingham Castle, i64«., 

i8o«., i84«. 
Meverell Manor, 221 
Mickfield, 84, 85, 226, 323-325 
Mickfields M., 290-292 
Micklefield v. Mickfield 
Middlesex co., 9, 15, 142, 239, 

247, 256, 258, 260, 298 
Middle Temple, 240 
Middleton, 2, 14, 58, 109, 112, 

116, 122-129, 187, 198, 201, 

203, 218, 219 
Middletons, 323 



Mildenhall, 8, 155, 274 
Milding H. M., 226, 254 
Milford Hall, 151 
Minsmere or Scot's H. M., 3, 

65, 194, 197, '98 
Mock Beggars Hall, 279 
Monks Eleigh, 251, 286 
Monks Soham, 380 
Montelicher, 331 
Montgomery, 73 
Mont-Martin, 213 
More, CO. Sussex, 275 
Mortlake, co. Surrey, 172 
Morning Thorpe, co. Norf., 8 
Mottingham, co. Kent, 339 
Mount Marbrook, 340 
Mountnessing, 333 
Much Bromley, co. Essex, 251 
Muriells M., 3, 128, 221 
Mutford and Loth. Hund., i, 

95, i75«-, 182, 254«., 318 
Myles Manor, 275 
Mynetts al. Munott's M., 291 
Mynmysmere M., 197 
Naburne, 187 
Nacton, no 
Naworth, 150, 357 
Nayland M., 153W., i&6n. 
Needham Market, 225, 239, 

322, 345, 361, 362 
Netherhail, 277, 366M. 
Nettlestead, 14, 17, 203, 226, 

231, 239, 260, 262-265, 266«., 

267, 268, 297, 300, 308, 326- 

33^, 357, 377> 379 
Newberry, 333 
Newburn Manor, i 
Newcastle, 157 
New Farm, 230 
Newhawe or Newhall M., 2, 

106, 226, 287 
Newmarket M., 73«. 
Newsam, co. Line, 330, 331 
Newton H., 226, 318, 319, 365- 

Nobiliac Monastery, 271 

Norfolk CO., 5, 7, 8, 9, 15, 19, 
25, 26, 28, 30, 34, 36, 40, 44, 
47, 49, 57, 68, 74, 81, 89, 94, 
95, 98, 100, 101, 104, 105, 
108, 109, 118, 132, 149, 152- 
154, 158, 159, 166, 171, 172, 
174-179, 185, 187, 189, 196, 
205n., 207, 212, 218, 233, 
234, 242, 245M., 260-271, 
274, 277, 278, 285, 296, 307- 
309, 318, 323-325, 330, 331, 
335, 354, 362, 377 

Normandy, 72, 75, 76, iS6n., 
261, 289, 290, 325, 3<:,2 

Normans with Beverlies M., 
226, 260, 265-268 

Northales M., 2, 3, 6-8, 87, 
202 

Northampton co., 20, 39, 51, 
131, 230, 290, 310, 311, 328, 

330 
North Creek, i2yn. 
North Hall M., 211, 213-217 
Northals Wymples, 213 
Northumberland co., 51, 53 
Norton, 220, 232, 261 



Norton Bavents M., 2 
Norwich, i, 9, 29, 35, 69, 78, 

108, 132, 145, 150, 225, 245, 

250, 251, 278, 321, 323, 334, 

339, 344, 362, 370, 37o«. 
Nottingham Castle, 328 
Notts CO., 5, 35, 242, 248, 330 
Nowell, CO. Beds, 91 
Oak Lawn, 162 
Occolt Hall, 134 
Offton, 226, 273, 337-340, 

342«., 346, 347, 377 
Okeburne Priory, 261 
Old Hall, 196 
Onehouse, 106 
Ongar Park, 191 
Orford, 259, 310 
Orleans, 215 

Ormesby, co. Norf., 109, 277 
Orwell Park, 32, no, 335 
Orwell River, 225 
Otley, 277, 306, 366, 366^. 
Oulstede M., 2, 42 
Oulton Manor, 254W. 
Ousden, 287 

Overhall M., 225, 248, 314 
Overstrand, 227 
Overtye M., 226, 265, 268 
Oxburgh, CO. Norf., 324 
Oxford, 9, 32, 142, 258, 285, 

311, 366 
Pacheton, 352 
Pakefield, 27 
Palestine, 93 
Palgrave, 89 

Parham H. M. , 4, i8o«., 239 
Paris, 140, 286, 311 
Parkfield, 26 
Paston, 95 
Peasenhall, 2, 32, 42, 79«., 

130-137, 180 
Peckforton Castle, 312 
Pekham or Peccham, 352 
Pellhouse Place, 330 
Pembroke co., 151 
Penshurst, 260 
Penthey, co. Norf., 205K. 
Perpounds, al. Poynings, M., 

2, 3, 86 
Perpounds, al. South H. M., 

211-213 
Peterborough, 371 
Petersham, 31 im. 
Petistree, 39 
Pettaugh, 112, 287 
Petworth, co. Sussex, 275^. 
Petytes, 314 
Peverell Honor, 270 
Picardy, 86 
Pierrepont, 86 
Pilbury, 381 
Pipps M., 226, 287 

Pirgo, 355 

Pirton, CO. Herts, 34 

Playford Manor, 229 

Plevy Castle, 277 

Plomesgate Hund., i, 4, 28, 

■30, 365 
Pluys, 140 

Poinings M., 3, 213-217 
Polfrey Manor, 2, 44 
Pondhall Manor, 118 



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INDEX LOCORUM. 



Pontefract, 331 

Portsmouth, 237 

Poslingford, 166 

Poynings, co. Sussex, 214 

Preston, 284 

Preston-Beauset, 330 

Priory Manor, 226 

Pulham St. Mary M., 189 

Putney, i 

Raby, 50 

Rackells Manor, 226 

Raines, co. Essex, 227, 355 

Rainham, 25, 318 

Ramsey Abbey, 218 

Ramsholt, 230 

Rasshefen, 323 

Rathing Ct., co. Kent, 133 

Rattlesden Church, 377 

Raveningham, 22, 179, 184, 

184W. 
Rawlins M., 226, 344 
Raydon, 58 

Rayleigh Honor, M., 94 
Rayne, co. Essex, 227 
Raynsbrough M., 225 
Rectory Manor, 2, 79 
Reddeshall, 203 
Redesham, 220 
Redfen at Bregge, 323 
Red House, 366, 371 
Redisham, 25, 28 
Redmylde M., co. Leic, 330 
Rendlesham, 340 
Repenemere Church, 66 
Reydon, 2, 84, 138, 143, 144 
Reydon Blevilis, 2, 143 
Reydon Ugghall, 2, 143 
Reydon Wingfields, 2, 143 
Reynes, 227 
Reynyburgh's, 314 
Rhone River, 129, 220 
Rice Hall, 225, 228, 230, 231, 

277 
Richmond Honor, 202, 204, 

205, 327 
Richmondshire, 145 
Rickindine, Dunwich, 60M. 
Ridley, co. Ches., 25 
Rigby, CO. Line, 229 
Ringsall, 253 
Ringsett, 380-381 
Ringsfield, 28, 187, 342M. 
Ringshall, 226, 270, 293, 341- 

345 
Ringssele v. Ringshall 
Ripon, CO. Yorks., 145 
Risbridge Hund., 120, i64n., 

166, 180, 184, 202W., 22on., 

357 
Riscott, 87 
Riseburc, 11 
Rivet Manor, 3, 159 
Rixlip, CO. Middx., 15 
Rochelle, 140 
Rochester, 7, 162 
Rockell's or Willisham M., 

226, 344-345 
Roehampton, co. Surrey, 96 
Rokenden, co. Salop, 25 1«. 
Rome, 48, 127, 175, 252 
Roos, Le, Manor, 3 
Rothenhall, 89, 277 



Rothing Earners M., 94 
Rouberrie Manor, i 
Rouen, 353 
Roughale, 39 
Rous M., 225, 228, 230 
Rownay Nunnery, 145 
Roydon, 152 
Royston Priory, 283 
Rughagh M., 2, 38, 41 
Rumburgh, 2, 11, 145-147, 

158-159 
Rushbrooke, 28, 91, 177, 

291M., 309 
Rushmere, 66, 368 
Russelep Priory, 262 
Ruthyn, 141, 142 
Rutland co., 333, 347, 375 
Rycot, Rycote, 165, 211 
Rysings, 3, 51, 194, 198, 201 
Sadingfield, 355 
St. Albans, 50, 229, 330 
St. Christophers in the Fields 

M., 235 
St. George's Hill, co. Som., 

151 
St. Gorman's, co. Norf. , 117 
St. Heliers, Jersey, 10 
St. John of Jerusalem M., 226, 

252, 286-287, S^S^^- 
St. John's Manor, 226, 252- 

254 
St. Kitt's Island, 15 
St. Mary at Bee Abbey, 261 
St. Neots, CO. Hunts, 45, 92 
St. Osyth, 127;?. 
St. Radegunds Abbey, Kent, 

214 
Saints, All, 147 
Salop CO., 251W., 311, 334, 369 
Samford Hund., 98, 118, 225, 

271W., 273, 284, 284M., 289, 

307 
Sanford, 209 
Santander, in Spain, 140 
Savage's M., 2, 86, 89 
Sawtrey, co. Hunts, 307 
Saxham, 239, 333, 339 
Saxlingham, 9, 26 
Saxmundham, 108, no, 130, 

166, 263 
Scarfeston, 379 
Scotland, 9, 26, 157, 213, 311, 

328, 329. 332 
Scot's 7'. Minsmere 
Scott's Hall, CO. Kent, 234 
Scrobeland Manor, 243 
Scroby, 159 
Sculthorp, 22, J 01 
Seckford Hall, 239 
Seething, co. Norf., 89 
Shadingfield, 25, 26, 28, 116 
Shanfield, u8 
Shardelowes M., 34 
Shelf hanger, co. Norf., 149 
Shelford, co. Notts, 248 
Shelley, 125, 177 
Shelton, co. Norf., 94 
Sheringham H., co. Norf., 377 
Sherington, 243 
Shimpling M., 182, 216 
Shipmeadow, 136 
Ship-yard, 355 



Sholing, CO. Hants, 364 
Shorham, 214 
Shotestrand, 98 
Shropham, 190 
Shrubland, 22, 243-245, 260, 

279. 283, 295, 340, 360 
Sibton, 2, 6, 40, 94, 97, 97«., 

125, i33> 134, 148, i49> 15I) 

152, 218, 287 
Sibton Abbey, 135-137, 150, 

151, 185, 196 
Sicily, 177 
Sidhall Manor, 225 
Sidmouth, 319 
Singland, co. Limerick, 243 
Siomhope, co. Line, 76 
Sizewell, 2, 113, 115 
Slagham, 214 
Sleford, i4«., 142 
Sluse, 213 

Smalebrigg M. , 213 
Snape, 11 5;?. 
Snodespyche, 62 
Soham, 380 

Solihull, CO. Warw., 311 
Somerleyton, 109, 174, 175, 

i75«. 
Somerset co., 73, 151, 186 
Somersham, 226, 329, 330, 

346-348, 381 
Somerton, 190 
Sotherton, 2, 16, 19, 60, 84, 

85, 153, 154 
Sotterley, 88, 175-177, 282 
Southampton, 258, 364 
Southfleet, 177 
Southcote, CO. Berks, 258 
South Hall M., 3, 87, 2n 
Southwell, CO. Notts, 242 
Southwold, 3, 12, 61, 155, 156 
Sowters M., 3, 167 
Spencers Manor, 260 
Spexhall, 3, 84, 158, 206 
Sproughton, 196, 231, 243, 

271^., 340 
Sprowston, co. Norf., 212 
Stafford co., 28, 109, 151, 254 
Stalham, 220 

Stanewall, co. Middx., 256 
Stanhope Hall, 207 
Stanringale, co. Norf., 118 
Stantive Hall, 207 
Stanwell, 256-258 
Staverton Manor, 51 
Stepal, CO. Essex, 92 
Stepney, 319 
Sternfield, 104 
Stiffkey, St. John Ch., 19 
Stikingland, 3, 54, 55, 218, 

221-223 
Stikland Manor, 128 
Stockbridge, 95 
Stody M., CO. Norf., 175 
Stoke, 14, 142, 243, 256^., 

290 
Stoke-Danbury M., 330 
Stoke Nayland, 118, 354 
Stoke-upon-Trent, 67 
Stokesley, co. Norf., 325 
Stokingland Ch., 293 
Stone Hall, 317^. 
Stoneham Manor, 225, 231 



INDEX LOCORUM. 



IX. 



Stone Wall, 31 7«. 

Stonham, 170, 226, 255, 325, 

348-364 
Stonham Aspall, 226, 352-358 
Stonham, Earl, 351, 360 
Stonham Edmunds or Ante- 

gan M., 226 
Stonham Pva. or Jernegan's, 

175, 226, 322, 362-363 
Stoven, 3, 25, 69, 80, 160 
Stow Hund., 284, 289, 3i3«., 

342«. 
Stowmarket, 239, 245, 253 
Stradbroke, 239 
Stradbroke Wilbys, 248 
Stradenfeld, 22 
Stratford, 29, 30, 81, 83 
Stratton, 75 

Strawford, co. Hants, 88 
Streatham, co. Surrey, 64 
Strivelin, 328 
Stubbing Wood, 171, 172 
Studhagh Manor, 18 in. 
Stutton Hall, 133 
Stykeland, 123, 219 
Sudbury, 94, 146, 152, 322, 

377 
Sulyards, 225, 314 
Surrey co., 57, 64, 96, 109, 

140, 172, 228, 258, 339 
Sussex CO., 5, 7, 9, 14, 87, 142, 

214, 275, 290, 355 
Suthwell, Co. Notts, 242 
Sutton, 93, 125 
Swilland, 226, 365-367 
Synton, co. York., 330 
Tadington, 176 
Takons al. Takens M., 291 
Talmach, 226, 251, 274, 276 
Tannington, 171, 282, 325 
Tarbick Ch., 259 
Tasburgh, 164, 227 
Taston M., 260, 298 
Taunton, 53 
Temple Manor, 2, 59 
Thame, 87, 165 
Thames, 157 
Tharston Manor, 278 
Theberton, 3, 52, 108, 109, 

112, 113, 113W., ii6w., 126, 

263, 161, 162 
Thedwards Manor, 291 
Teronenne, 142, 355 
Therstan M., co. Norf., 278 
Therston, co. Norf., 98 
Thetford, 56, 120, 182, 340 
Thetford Priory, 56, 158, i68, 

339> 342 
Theydon Gernon, Essex, 

275«. 
Thingoe Hund., 267M. 
Thorington, 3, 7, 16, 105, 109, 

163-169, 184, 185, 185M., 187, 

195W., 213 
Thorington Wimples, 163 
Thorndon, 197, 238, 302 
Thornes, 143 
Thorneye, 252 
Thorpe, 3, 12, 51, 97, 97M., 

112, 113, 115, 168, 192 
Thredling Hund., 225, 380 
Thuriton, 42 



Thurlow, 32, no, 172 
Thuriton, co. Norf., 68 
Thurmaston Lodge, 89 
Thurning, co. Norf., 207 
Tickford Abbey, Bucks, 89 
Tilbury Fort, 7 
Toddington, co., Beds, 2,2,y 

335«- 
Toft, CO. Line, loi 
Tolshunt Darcy, 191 
Topcroft, CO. Norf., 323 
Totham Parva, 92, 94 
Tournay, 355 
Towton Field, 216 
Trent, River, 302, 328 
Trevise, 355 
Trimley, 243, 251, 339, 340, 

342 
Troston, 355 
Troyle, co. Hants, 260 
Tuddenham, 381 
Tunbridge, co. Kent, 299 
Tuston Hall M., 226 
Twyford, co. Hants, 88 
Ubbeston, 3, 15, 53, 94, 169- 

173 
Ufford, 108, 134, 243, 314 
Uggeshall, 3, 25, 26, 61, 6g, 

174-179) 229, 323 
Uledana, 378-379 
Ulverston Hall, 323 
Ulveston, 34, 66 
Uphall M., al. Lyvermere 

Magna, 52 
Upsal, CO. York., 331 
Upston Manor, 358 
Upton, 190 

Valeins M., 3, 194, 198, 200 
Varley, 223 
Vaux Manor, 285W. 
Vernoul, 142 
Vesseys al. Veises M., 226, 

283-285 
Veysey's Manor, 243 
Vicars Hill, 275 
Virginia, 8, 9 
Wade Hall Manor, 2 
Walberswick, 3, 12, 13, 16, 180 
Waldingfield, Much, M., 291 
Wales, 73, 262, 328 
Walpole, 3, 94, 180, 181, 184 
Walpole Chickering, 181 
Walryngton M., co. Kent, 330 
Walsham, 202 
Walsham, South, M., 51 
Walsingham, 159 
Waltham, M., 226, 291, 363- 

364 
Walton, 49, 51 
Wangfield, 19, 84 
Wangfordl, 3, i9«., 69, 80, 

83^., 84, 143, i64«., l^()n., 

182, 183 
Wangford Hund., i, 28, 38, 

40, i8o«., 184M., i85»., 

342M. 

Wangford Priory, 155, 156, 

182 
Wansted, co. Essex, 129, 220 
Wardowe, 355 
Warham, co. Norf., 335 
Warkworth Castle, i 



Warley PI., co. Essex, 275M. 
Warwick co., 142, 177, 311, 

369 
Wathersdale M., 82«. 
Wattisfield, 29o«., 352 
Wattisham Church, 286 
Watton, CO. Norf., 253, 362 
Welyngham Stoven, 28 
Wenham, 25, 239, 285, 285W. 
Wenhaston, 3, 16, 23, 120, 

121, 163, 184, 185, 187 
Wenthworth Woodhouse,329«. 
Werte, 157 
Westbarrow Hall, 94 
West Creting, 22 
Westerfield, 226, 368-372 
Westhall, 3, 16, 19, 84, 153, 

154, i9o«.,374, 374'2-, 185- 

191 
Westhall Barrington M., 191 
Westleton, 3, 194-201 
Westleton Lambaldes, 128 
Westminster, 15, 134, 258, 285, 

286 
Westminster Abbey, 240, 286, 

332, 332;?. 
Weston, 28, 230 
Westons Manor, 3, 163 
West Stow, 242, 251 
Westwell Ch., co. Kent, 27 
Westwood, 2, 3, 14, 16, 220 
Wetherden, 34, 324 
Wetheringset Ch., 285 
Wethersfield, co. Essex, 289 
Weylands M., 226, 265, 266, 

268 
Whatfield, 212 
Whitechapel, 354 
Whitton-with-Thurlston, 187, 

226, 373-374 
Wickham, 243 
Wickhambrook, 371 
Widdeford, co. Hants, 275«. 
Wigenhall, co. Norf., 117 
Wigges, 294 
Wight, Isle of, 153 
Wikes Ufford M., 371 
Willingham, 89, 182 
Willisham, 226, 260, 375-377 
Willowes Manor, 225 
Wilmington Priory, co. Sus- 
sex, 290 
Wilts CO., 88, 261 
Wimples Ufford M., 3, 163 
Winchendon, co. Bucks, 82 
Windsor, 143, 261 
Winfarthing, co. Norf., 196 
Wingfield, 3, 5, 104, 144, 181, 

192 
Winston, co. Norf., 207, 296 
Wisbech, 109, 117, 118 
Wischete v. AVissett 
Wisgale, 220 
Wissett, 3, 36, 42, 84, 98, 99, 

146, 157, 159, 187, 202-208 
Wissett le Roos M., 203-208, 

352«. 
Wiston, 275W. 
Witham, co. Essex, 77 
Withersdale, 117 
Witnesham, 322, 366 
Wokelington M., loi 



X 



INDEX LOCORUM. 



Wolney H. al Wonhall M., 

226, 290-292, 323, 325 
Woodbridge, 8, 267, 369M., 

370 
Woodbridge Ufford M., 324 
Woodburde, 109 
Woodcot, CO. Salop, 334 
Wood Dalling, co. Norf., 207 
Woodhey, co. Ches., 311 
Woodhouse M., 226, 347 
Woodstock, 141 
Woolchurch Ch., 219 
Worcester, 258, 265, 334 
Woringay, co. Norf., 5 



Worlingham, 9, 27, 89, 166, 

179, 185 
Worlington M., 353, 353«. 
Worlington Scales M., 353 
Wormegay, 153 
Wormley, co. Herts, 177, 178 
Wormsley, 276 
Wortwell Hall, 28 
Wrentham, 3, 6, 7, 51, 68, 69, 

86, 88, 199, 209-217, 247, 

278 
Wretham, 25 
Wretham Ponyngs M., 51 
Wrights Manor, 2, 34, 36 
Wycet V. Wissett 



Wymondham, 26, 47 
Wymondley, 72-75, 77 
Wymples M., 7 
Wysett V. Wissett 
Wyrerstone, 362 
Yarmouth, 9, 63, 206, 230, j,-]-j 
Yaxley, 203 
Yomins, 142 

York CO., 14, 15, 20, g8, 105, 
157, 182, 262, 329«.-33i, 

333> 339, 354 
Yoxford, 3, IS, 44, 5^, 88, 96, 

116, 126, 128, 129, 135, 196, 

218-223, 361 
Zantoigne, 139 



INDEX NOMINUM. 



Abbott, 361 
Abel, 302 

Abercorn, Marq., 312 
Abergavenny, 7, 124, 

211 
Abrincis, 72 
Acre, 155 
Acton, 245, 259, 260, 

265, 267, 268, 279, 

318 
Adair, 53, 189, 276, 

291, 325, 343-345 

Adam, 314 

Adams, 126, 181, 357 

Adelwin, 317 

Afleton, 318 

Agelward, 55 

Agneus, 328 

Ailbold, 350 

Ailmar, 351 

Ailric, 323 

Aisshfeld, 66 

Aistan, 304, 373 

Aki, 194 

Alaa, 29 

Albert, 375, 380 

Albini, 45, 47, 48 

Albold, 182 

Alborne, 268 
Albricus, 100 

Alcock, 238, 239, 240 
Aldborough, E. of, 311 

Aldham, 191 
Aldith, 289 
Aldous, 125 
Aldred, 218 
Aldwin, 337 
Alestan, 369 
Alexander, 66, 342 
Alflet, 348, 375 
Alfrac, 122 
Alfric, Bp., 155 
Alfwin, 55, 222 
Algar, 55, 123, 130, 

218, 264, 265, 372 
Algarth, 181, iSiw. 
Alington, 75-78 
AUeyne, 235 
Almar, 232, 280, 317, 

369 
Aimer, 281 
Almott, 289 
Alnesbourne, Prior of, 

236 
Alnewyk, 155 
Alnoth, 13, 55 
Aired, 107 
Alric, 277 



Alston, 267, 268 

Alta Ripa, 275)!. 

Aluold, 227 

Aluric, 21, 55,71, 123, 
148, 163, 209, 222, 
227, 249, 261, 265, 
277, 280, 281, 288, 
348-350, 365, 366, 
369, 372, 373, 378 

Alvera, 122, 163 

Alverd, 314 

Alviet, 381 

Alviva, 55 

Alvol, 349 

Alwin, 54, 80, 98, 148, 
151, 221, 232, 281, 

351. 369. 373, 37^, 

380 
Amberley, 346 
Amis, 289 
Amod, 169 
Amund, 381 
Amyas, 88, 89, 8gn. 
Anant, 33, 306 
Anderson, 27 
Andreas, 197 
Andrews, 60, 256, 338 
Anesty, 139 
Anney, 5 
Anos or Hanes, i2jn., 

306 
Anquish, 79 
Anschetill, 273 
Anschill, 270 
Ansered, 182 
Ansketil, 55 
Apelyerd, 190 
Appleton, 363 
Appleyard, 94, 118, 

335 

Arcedeckne, 96, 221 

Archdale or Archder- 
dell, 58 

Archer, Le, 272, 301 

Ardell, 277 

Ardem, 50, 52 

Ardern, 262 

Arfast, Bp., 264, 372 

Argall, 79, 234, 313 

Argentein or Argen- 
tine, 62, 66, 72, 74, 
75. 75»-. 76, 78, 170. 
«75, 205 

Argill, 27 

Arkell, 371 

Arlington, Earl of, 19 

Armiger, 31, 366 

Armin, 291 



Armstrong, 275W. 

Arnold, 253 

Arras, 229 

Artald, 349 

Arthenthein, 73 

Arthur, 8 

Arthur, Prince, 146 

Arundel, 30, 47, 51, 
56, 99, 100, 124, 133, 
146, 150, 157, 183, 
183W., 216, 233, 355, 

376, 377 
Aschil, 238 
Aselak, 176 
Aseret, 368 
Asgill, 319 
Ashburnham, 240, 248, 

298 
Ashford, 307 
Ashton, 79 
Aslack, 177 
Aspal, 329, 352, 353, 

357 
Aspen, 260 
Asphale, 187 
Asshefeld, 104 
Astley, 142 
Atherold, 325 
Athurly, 366 
Atkins, 9 
Atkyns, 283 
Attecruch, 192 
Attelburgh, 107 
Atwood, 9 

Aubrey, 281, 317, 379 
Audeley, 95, 125, 366 
Audley, 366 
Augustine, 197 
Aula de Cleiden, 277 
Aunsel, 344 
Austyn, 127, 198 
Avarne, 79 
Avennes, 139 
Aylesham, 314 
Aylmar, 98, 130 
Aylmer, 26, 229, 230, 

252, 278, 279 
Aylward, 218 
Ayton, 32, no 
Babington, 365 
Bachelor, 79 
Backquevile, 258 
Bacon, 16, 18, 22, 23, 

30, 57, 70, 81, 83, 85, 
158, 164, 172, 185, 
192, 231M., 242, 244, 

253, 283, 291, 340, 
340W. 



Bacoun, 197 
Bacun, 318 
Badele, 238 
Badeley, 78, 79 
Badely, 238 
Badlesmere, 157, 329 
Badley, 240 
Badwell, 238 
Baillie, 240 
Bainard, 24, 33> 45r 

47, 65, 80 
Bakun, 238, 277 
Balastarius, 33, 34, 61 
Balchi, 304 
Baldrye, 192 
Baliol, 139 
Balistarius, 327 
Ball, 324 
Banaster, 338 
Banastre, 133 
Band, 213 
Banyard, 63, 84, 128, 

201 
Bar, 368 
Barclay, 89, 166 
Bardele, 238 
Bardolf, 153, 214, 242, 

353 

Bardolph, 213 

Barentyn al. Barantyn 
or Barrington, 66 

Barker, 107, 109, 133, 
134, 135, 200, 250, 
251, 253, 298, 339, 
340, 342, 342«-, 343 

Barking, Abbess of, 

49 
Barnard, 230, 231 
Barnardiston, 14, 91, 

195, 253 
Barne, 60 
Barnes, 158 
Barnesley, 259 
Barningham, 93 
Barrington, 191, 192 
Barstone, 322 
Bartholomew, 323 
Barton, 126 
Baspoole, 9, 44 
Basset, 375, 376 
Bassett, 230 
Bateman, 238 
Bath, Earl of, 189, 

240 
Bathon, 346 
Bathonia, 328 
Battle, 191 
Baumyard, 28 



B 2 



xu. 



INDEX NOMINUM. 



Baunynge, 159 
Bavent, 17, 34, 61, 62, 

64, 195 
Baxster, 128 
Baxter, 187, 353, 367, 

374 
Bayeux, Bp. of, 145, 

i86«., 280, 288, 293, 

304, 2^7, 348-350, 

352, 378, 379 
Baynard, 27, 138, 158, 

169, 182 
Bayning, 146, 147, 158 
Beauchamp, 103, 124, 

125, 140, 365, 366 
Beaufort, 143 
Beaufou, 67 
Beaumonde, 67 
Beaumont, 147, 155, 

197 
Beauson, 66 
Beck, 79 
Beckingale, 243 
Bedford, 276 
Bedford, Duke of, 8n., 

64, 77, 142 
Bedingfield, 34, 36, 

56,57,58,78,83,118, 

170, 197, 198, 302, 
303, 324, 352, 366, 
367, 369, 370 

Bedynfeld, 302 
Bedyngfield, 132, 151 
Belagh, 107 
Bele, 67 
Belhus, 186, 327 
Bell, 66, 159 
Belle, 128 
Bellehus, 327, 328 
Belley, 25 
Bence, 96, 166, i66k., 

167, 181, 200, 340 
Bendish, 300, 301 
Benham, 83 
Bennett, 275, 298, 362 
Bentley, 9, 134, 135 
Bereford, 74, 74«., 

205 
Berengar, 174, 323 
Berkeley, 19, 39, 105, 

215 
Bernak, 49, 52 
Bernard, 227, 366, 369, 

373 
Bern ay, 2-20 
Bernay, Abbot of, 288, 

365, 378 
Berners, 6, 133, 189, 

i9», 354 
Bernet, 357 
Berney, 109 
Bernham, 28, 153, 154, 

i54«. 
Berri, 316 
Berry, 84, 231, 242 
Best, 287, 312 
Beton, 274 
Betts, 77 
Beumays, 329 
Beureria, 153 
Beverley, Earl of, 240 
Beverstone, 215 



Bigot, II, 12, 24, 29, 
3i, 34, 36, 38, 40-42, 
46-49, 54, 56, 61, 71, 
78, 92, 98, 108, 112, 

122, 123, I27W., 130, 

131, 134, 160, 161, 

163, 168, 169, 174, 

182, 197, 203, 204, 

218, 221, 230, 232, 

246, 249, 255, 261, 

264, 265, 280, 282, 

288, 293, 297-299, 

302, 316, 317, 2>i7> 
339, 341-343, 346, 
348-352, 358, 378, 

379 
Billingford, 250 
Billott, 1 
Birch, 172 
Bird, 325, 360, 361 
Birtles, 9 
Bishop, 230 
Biskele or Bixley, 65, 

66, 160 
Black, 139 
Blackhed, 37 
Blackman, 54, 55, 148, 

149, 304 
Black Prince, 124, 157 
Blackson, 337 
Blackwell, 172 
Blackwin, 337 
Blaunchard, 97 
Blaxhale, 302 
Blaxhall, 192 
Blench, 208 
Blenerhasset, 28, 56, 

82, 133, 150, 243 
Bleuth, 73 
Blois, 15, 17, 44, 72, 

96, 129, 171, 195, 

196, 220, 221, 253, 

259, 366 
Blomefield, 17, 28, 51, 

52, 67, 150, 159, 

J74«., 185 
Blomeville or Blom- 

field, 286 
Blomfield, 286, 357, 

358 
Blomville, 191, 286, 

296 
Blond, 122, 123 
Blosse, 134 
Blount, 258 
Blumville, 29 
Blund, 194, 195, 200, 

313 
Blunt, 140 
Blyant, 238, 342 
Board, 191 
Bocket, 192 
Booking, 233-235, 293, 

294, 296, 313 
Bockyug, 233 
Bocland, 160 
Boeville, 42, 163, 167 
Bolme, 6 
Bohun, 46, 131, 132, 

187-193, 271, 272, 

338, 346 
Bois, 93«., 109, i09n. 



Bokel, Bokill, o r 
Bokyll, 32, 108, 116 

Bokele, 199 

Bokkyng, 62 

Boleyn, 278 

Bolley, 25 

Bolton, 126 

Bomart, 339 

Bomond, 5 

Bond, 12, 84, 222 

Bonds, 273 

Bonell, 319 

Bonham, 233-235 

Bonyng, 62 

Boobrok, 314 

Boome, 240 

Boone, 248 

Boor, 124 

Booth, 107, 282 

Booting, 108 

Booty, 281, 342 

Borlas, 267, 268, 292 

Borough, 242 

Boston, 234 

Boteler, 17, 74, 155 

Bothe, 244, 245, 268, 
360 

Botild, 66 

Botilt, 270 

Boundes, 89 

Bourchier, 6, 142, 189, 
191, 267, 268, 353, 

354 
Bourgchier, 354 
Bourgh, i86«. 
Bovell, 195 
Bowes, 164, 164W., 

165, 239, 251 
Bowet or Bowes, 5, 6, 

43 
Boxted, 344 
Boyd, 236 
Boyland, 36 
Boys, 66, 127M., 184 
Bradley, 161, 334 
Braham, no, i:o«. 
Bramford, 230 
Brampton, 189, 193, 

278 
Brance, 92 
Branch, 89 
Brand, 123, 172 
Brandon, 31, 36, 39, 

57, 67, 82, 85, 108, 

112, 114, 168, 291, 

Si^, 363 
Branteston, 328 
Brasey, 20 
Brasse, 182 
Braunch, 277 
Brazier, 18, 84 
Bradford, 79 
Bredilhaugh, 283 
Brepge, 84 
Breowse or De Brewse, 

277 
Bretagne, D. of, 145 
Bretagne, E. of, 204 
Breton, 204 
Bretton, 191 
Brewer, 153 
Brewes, 376 



Brewosa, 358, 376 
Brews, 203, 206 
Brewse, 22, 25, 30, 

108, 121, 164, 184, 

228, 230, 239, 277, 

278, 285, 318 
Brewster, 16, 52, 87, 

212, 213, 217, 295 
Brian, 214, 270, 271, 

344 
Bricett, Prior of, 271 
Brickwood, 371 
Brictmar, 365, 379 
Brictmer, 373 
Brictuold, 306 
Brictuolt, 241, 317 
Brictwolt, 378 
Bridgeman, 289 
Bridges, 181 
Bridgman, 291 
Bridgwater, 292 
Bright, 251, 274 
Brightyeve or Brytyff, 

154 
Brihtmar, 122 
Brimar, 55 
Briseworth, 282 
Bristol, Bp. of, 9 
Bristol, Lord, 235 
Britolis, 145 
Briton, 327 
Brittany, Title, 145, 

151, 203, 204, 327 
Britton, 109 
Brocket, 282 
Brockett, 244, 269 
Brograve, 109 
Brok, 120, 184 
Broke, 14, 15, 100, 128, 

129, 196 
Brokele, 66 
Brokes, 19 

Brokett, 269, 282, 360 
Brome, 37, 119, 177 
Brompton, 318 
Brooke, 16, 88, 134, 

13s, 195, 199, 219- 

221, 223, 322, 362 
Brookes, 17 
Broome, 251 
Brotherton, 49, 103, 

132, 298, 358, 359 
Broughton, 357 
Broun, 265 
Brown, 25, 78, 115, 

159, 236, 255, 350, 

358 
Browne, 52, 112, 113, 

173, 189, 230, 244, 

355 
Brownngg, 377 

Bruce, King, 157 

Bruman-beard, 55 

Brun, 264 

Brunard, 261 

Bruncart, 299 

Brunwin, 122, 317 

Brus, 358 

Bruseyard, 66 

Bryan, 74 

Bryd, 62 



INDEX NOMINUM. 



Xlll. 



Buckingham, Title, 4, 
51, 113-115, 188, 216, 
237, 261, 299, 300, 

333> 338, 346 
Buckland, 118 
Buers, 229 
Bund, 55 
Bunda, 55 
Bunglond, 5 
Bunney, 207 
Burch, 243 
Burcliard, 304, 349 
Burde, 357 
Burdoun, 271 
Bures, 229, 278 
Burgh, 46, 76, 100, 

153, 15s. 186, 204, 

300. 375 
Burghard, 199 
Burghersh, 30, 81, 124, 

= 22. 233, 321, 366 
Burghley, 333 
Burgoyne, 67 
Burley, 109, 155 
Burnaville, 256, 260, 

297. 342 
Burne, 203 
Burnell, 369 
Burnet, Bp., 188, 311 
Burnoille, 341-343 
Burnolville, 255, 256 
Burnoville, 346 
Burnville, 241) 
Burrough, 172, 267 
Burstede, 116 
Bury St. Edmunds, 

Abbot of, 5, 130, 155, 

174, 288, 323 
Burys, 345 
Buttrey, 262 
Butts, 212 
Buxton, 259 
Byarde, 342 
Bygod, 358 
Byland, 323 
Byles, 366 
Bynte, 184 
Byskele, 6g 
Cadomo, 306 
Caen, 54, 122, 130, 

148, 149, 169, 222, 

288, 378 
Cage, 286 
Caily, 164 
Caines, 198 
Calthorp, 5, 18, 19, 28, 

43, 44, 87, 95, 151, 

165, 206, 208 
Calvert, 339 
Cameron, 126, 162 
Campden, 77 
Campsey, Prioress of, 

313 
Candish, 34 
Candos, 249 
Cantebrigg, 211 
Canterbury, Archbp. 

of, 85, 112, 299 
Cantrell or Chatrell, 

133, 283 
Capel, 354, 355, 35^ 
Capon, 32, 147, 198 



Capra, 29 

Carbery, Baron, 83 
Carbonel, 30, 180, 

i8o«., 181 
Carew, 230 
Carey, 39, 95, 105, 106, 

300 
Carleton, 250, 250W., 

339 
Carrell, 133 
Carteret, 3:1 
Carthew, 8, 10, 43, 64 
Castel, 179 
Catelyne, 57 
Catesby, 257 
Catherine, Queen, 14, 

19 

Catlyn, 321 
Cans, 18, 19 
Cause, 108, 190 
Cave, 282, 283 
Cavendish, 28, 62, 311 
Cavendyssh, 215 
Caverham, 206 
Cawood, 206 
Caynets or Cheney, 

119 
Cecil, 76, 258, 333 
Cecill, 58, 359 
Chamberlain, 275,332H. 
Chamberleyn, 67 
Chamoullon, 258 
Chaories, 78 
Chapeau, 69 
Chaplin, 240 
Chapman, 15, 20, 28, 

133, 154, 177, 178, 

200, 285 
Chappine, 284 
Chappyn, 284 
Chappyne, 285 
Charles, 247, 343 
Charlotte, Princess,i5i 
Charlton, 371 
Charsley, 207 
Chaucer, 30, 8i 
Chauncey, 118 
Chauntrell, 215 
Chaworth, 262, 328 
Checke, 363 
Chedders, 355 
Cheney, 12, 13, 57, 333 
Chestan or Chedestan, 

199, 206 
Chester, 19, 20, 48, 72, 

247 
Chester, E. of, 145, 

299 
Chesterfield, E. of, 77 
Cheston, 107 
Chewte, 67 
Cheyne, 357 
Cheyny, 76, 149 
Chichester, E. of, 47 
Chickering, 181 
Chowte, 87 
Christian, 166 
Church, 67 
Chute or Choute, 217 
Clare, 155, 167, 238, 

299, 30O) 306 



Clarence, D. of, 50, 

81, 330 
Clarendon, 356 
Claricia, 197 
Clarke, 230, 247 
Clarkson, 53 
Clavering, i, 13, 22 
Claveryng, 139 
Claxston, 173 
Claxton, 52, 113 
Claydon, 19S, 277 
Clayton, 135, 196 
Cleede, 251M. 
Cleere, 221 
Cleiden, 277 
Clench, 289, 322, 339, 

367 
Clenche, 283, 294 
Clerc, Le, 188 
Clere, 89, 109, 185, 

195, 277, 278, 325, 

357 
Cleremont, E. of, 299 

Clerk, 215 

Clerke, 193 

Clermont, 72 

Cleveland, E. of, 262, 
268, 333-336 

Cleves, Anne of, 7, 39, 
67, 105 

Cleydon, 132 

Clif, del, 195, 198, 199 

Cliff, 24 

Clifford, 19, 96, 331 

Clifton, 49, 52 

Clinton, 51, 140 

Clopton, 66, 89-91, 
277, 300 

Clovell, 200 

Clovyle, 200 

Clyf, 25 

Clyfton, 62, 

Cobbe, 55 

Cobbold, 147, 336 

Cobeham, 203, 205 

Cobham, 7, 358, 362 

Cock, 194 

Cockerell, 230 

Cockeril, 234 

Cockram, 239 

Codenham, 67 

Codon, 199 

Codun, 116 

Codwi, 381 

Coell, 231 

Coke, I, 23, 39, 51, 52, 
io4«., 105, io5«., 
165-167, 170, 181, 
191, 198, 212, 347 

Cokefeud, 220 

Cokeley, 38 

Colbroke, 376 

Colby, 8, 115, 125 

Cole, 181M., 286 

Coleman, 346 

Colette, 238 

Colevill, 69 

Collett, 2c,in., 370, 371 

Collins, 5 

Collinson, 121 

Collman, 79 

Colman, 9 



Colt, 172 

Columbariis, 76, 25o«. 
Columbers, 249, 250 
Columbus, 250 
Colvile, 318 
Colvill, 243 
Colville, 13, 318, 319 
Colyngham, 107 
Comberford, 118 
Compton, 9, 77 
Comyn, 139, i86«. 
Cook, 173, 197, 345 
Cooke, 189, 297, 362, 

370, 377 
Cooper, no, 133 
Copcott, 34 
Copeldyke, 345 
Copledike, 102 
Corbet, 212 
Corbett, 75 
Corbry, 13 
Corbun, 55, 218 
Corbur, 13 
Cordeboef al. Gorde- 

boff, 32 
Cornwall, E. of, i86«., 

196, 321, 328 
Cornwallis, 150, 325, 

347 
Cornwallys, 285 
Coroner, 215 
Cosyn, 354 
Coudray, 258 
Coupe, 319 
Courtenay, IJ4 
Courthorpe, 73 
Couta, 33 

Cove, 42, 44, 49, 164 
Coverdale, 332 
Covyn, 62 
Cowell, 19, 366 
Cowling, 44 
Crabtree, 77, 200 
Cradock, 207 
Cradock-Hartopp, 207 
Crampton, 9 
Crane, 28, 40, 62, 66, 

88, 284, 291, 291M., 

363 
Cranmer, 19, 20 
Cranwell, 52 
Craven, 17, 18, 80, 84 
Cravene, 29, 66, 85 
Cravenne, 84 
Creeke, now. 
Greeting, 289 
Crek, 219 
Creke, 127, i2jn., 128, 

174, 218-220, 306, 

307, 5^3 
Cremer, 107 
Crepingham, 352 
Crepping, 136 
Crespigny, 289, 358 
Cressi or Cressy, 12, 

13, 41, 133, 149, 307 
Cressingham, igo 
Crewe, 231 
Criketot, 17, 18, 123, 

195, 198, 293 
Crisp, 370 



XIV. 



INDEX NOMINUM. 



Crofts, 154, 190, 212, 
239. 242, 251, 333, 

335«-. 339 
Croix, 35, 36 
Crokedok al. Crode- 

dok, 66 
Crombwell, 131 
Crome, 293 
Crompton, 247, 287 
Cromwell, 155, 309, 

310 
Cross, 79 
Crow, 35 
Crowe, 276 
Crowley, 240, 247, 248, 

298 
Crull, 195 
Crumwell, 50, 52 
Cryketot, 293 
Cryol, 213 
Cryspe, 143 
Cudden, 334 
Cuddon, 26, 339, 342 
CuUen, Vise, 95 
Cullum, 8, 262, 263 
Cullyng, 62 
Culpepper, 220 
Cunningham, 162 
Curbun, 222 
Curcun, 11, 24, 98, 174 
Curson, 195 
Curtency, 250 
Curthose, 145 
Curtis, 35 
Curwun, 202 
Curzon, 242 
Cus, 222 
Cutler, 259 
Cutting, 286 
Cutts, 77, 200, 282, 283 
Dacom, 214 
Dacre,5-7, 10, 43, 87, 

164, 165, 211, 212 
Dade, 171, 325, 334, 

357 
Dale, 118, 374, 374«- 
Dalton, 76 
Daly, 185 
Dalziel, 335"- 
Darner, 96 
Dameron, 321, 322, 

370 
Damron, 322 
Daniel, 18, 69, 84 
Dantres, 154 
Dapifer, 29, 182 
D'Arcy, 75, 191, 230, 

258, 353 
Dartrys, 66 
Dashwood, 76, 181 
Daubuz, 96 
Daundeville or Auber- 

ville or Otburville, 

344 
Daundy, 303 
Davy, 106, 126, 127 
Dawtrey, 275 
Day, 20, 167, 185, 196 
Deane, 166 
Debenham, 285, 302, 

312, 3M 
Deincourt, 329 



Deneys or Denneys, 

238, 282, 285 
Dengrave, 338 
Denney, 283 
Denny or Denay, 22, 

23. 121, 150, 176, 

185, 185W., 322 
Denston, 357 
Denton, 57 
Denys, 302 
Derby Earl of, 216 
Derehaugh, 96, 97 
Deschaleres, 190 
Desmond, Earl of, 157 
Despencer, 59, 102, 

124, 125, 139, 222, 

321, 329, 330, 332, 

366 
Dethick, 22, 35 
Devenish, 95 
D'Evereux, 300 
Devon, Duke of, 311 
Devon, Earl of, 153 
D'Ewes, gm. 
Deynes, 283 
Digby, 347 
Dilhegg, 99, 205 
Dinnington, 115 
Dirsi, 373 
Dixe, 133, 150 
Dol, 122 

Dondo or Dodo, 182 
Donewico, 195 
Donewyco, 198 
Dorchester, E. of, 96 
Dorset, Earl of, 7, 191 
Dorsett, 22 
Dot, 381 

Doughty, 126, 161, 162 
Douglas, 135 
Dove, 284 
Dovedale or Owgdale, 

278 
Dover, E. of, 95 
Dowe, 197 
Downe, E. of, 333M. 
Downes, 146 
Dowsing, 370 
Drake, 177, 361 
Draper, 10 
Dresser, 20, 167, 185 
Dreux or Manclere, 

204, 327 
Drewe, 206 
Driver, 360, 370 
Drury, 25, 76, 89, 104, 

167, 357 
Ducket, 107 
Dudley, 7, 31, 143, 

267, 130W., 354 
Duff, 312 
Dugdale, 5, 47, 140, 

'57 
Duke, 27, 28, no, 1 58, 

177, 193, 221 
Dun, 275«. 
Duncombe, 240 
Dunwich, 83, 197 
Durand, 249 
Duraunt, 338 
Durham, Bp. of, 145 



Durrant, or Durraunt, 

36, 271, 304 
Dymocke, 14 
Dysart, E. of, 234-236, 

310. 3'i 
Eade, 8 
Echard, 166 
Ecklingham, 14, 97 
Eden, 94, 152 
Edgar, 68, 70, 109, 

134, 283, 285, 319, 

366, 371 
Edith, 232, 261, 373 
Edith, Queen, 256, 

273, 365 

Edmondson, 5 

Edmund, 32, 56 

Edred, 374, 380 

Edric, a, 42, 44, 54, 
55. 59, 92, 98, 100, 
III, 117, 122, 123, 
130, 135, 148, 149, 
163, 168, 209, 211, 
222, 232, 241, 255, 
282, 288, 293, 299, 
304, 316, 341, 349- 
351, 369, 37i, 378, 
379 

Edrington, 76 

Edwards, 68, 236 

Edwin, 17, 218 

Edwy, 380 

Egenton, 296 

Egerton, 239 

Elgar, Earl, 241 

Eliab, 4 

Eliot, 253 

Elizabeth, Q., 7, 1 05, 308 

Elmham, 154 

Elmy, 1 66 

Elric, 61 

Eltham, 321 

Elwin, 207 

Ely, Abbot of, ^^i^ 59, 
232, 238, 241, 255, 
262, 280, 293, 297, 
316, 317, 320, 341, 
349, 351, 368, 375, 
379, 380 

El)', Bp. of, 9, 192, 
241, 246, 266-268, 

300, 338 
Elyngton, 214 
Empole or Hampole, 

186, 190 
Empson, 354 
Engaine, loi, 149 
Engelric, 350 
Englefeld, 360 
Eodman, 362 
Ernald, 365, 369 
Esmoda, 122 
Essex, E. of, 189, 259, 

300, 353, 356 
Estley, 44 
Estral, 373 
Endo, 249, 281, 320, 

378 
Evans, 83 
Evenyngham, 222 
Everard, 34, 43, 44, 

117, 118, 152 



Evereux, E. of, 300 

Everton, 104 

Everyngham, 131 

Ewe, Earl of, 189 

Ewen, 68 

Exeter, Bp. of, 151 

Exeter, Duke of, 199 

Eyre, 125, 195 

Fairfax, 356 

Falesham, 136 

Faleyse de la, 199 

Falsham, 136 

Fan, 28 

Fane, 276 

Fanhope, Lord, 142 

Farcere, 317 

Farman, 316 

Farr, 96 

Fartere, 317 

Fastolf, 40, 155, 220, 
287 

Fastolfe, 289 

Faweather or Fay- 
wether, 274 

Fawethur, 78 

Fayreweath, 88 

Felaw, 289 

Felbrig, 307 

Felbrigg, 34, 62 

Felsham, 233, 313 

Feltham, 187 

Felton, 5, 6, 164, 179, 

237 
Fermley, 22 
Ferrariis, 13 
Ferrers, 46, loo, 124, 

376 
Fienes al. Fynes, 5-7, 

43, 87, 108, 109, 165, 

211 
Fillade, 251 
Filmer, 188 
Fincham, 30, 285 
Finche, 142 
Fisher, 151, 319 
Fisk, iSi 
Fiske, 196 
Fitz Allan, 86 
Fitz Brian, 270, 271 
Fitz Gerald, 139, 221 
Fitz Gilbert, 299, 300 
Fitz Hervei, 100 
Fitz Hugh, 6, 120 
Fitz Maurice, 157 
Fitz Osbert, 80, i6rj, 

174, 175, 179, 307 
Fitz Pain, 214 
Fitz Richard, 45, 46, 

218 
Fitz Robert, 12, 13, 46, 

66, 92, 149 
Fitz Roger, 12, 13, 57 
Fitzroy, ig 
Fitz Tecon, 72 
Fitz Walter or Fitz 

Wauter, 46-47, 51, 

65, 80, 81, 84, 92, 

108, 138, 139, 149, 

170, 216 
Fitz Warren, 75 
Fitz Williams, 5, 182, 
192, 289 



INDEX NOMINUM. 



XV. 



Fleetcroft, 91 
Fleetwood, 35, 40, 78, 

207 
Flint, 369 
Fogge, 363 
Folke, 99 
Folkes, 362 
Follol, 358 
Fooche, 215 
Fornham, 75 
Forster, 67, 79 
Fortescue, 45, 284, 

Forthyngton, 203, 205 
Foster, 172, 242 
Fouler, 363 

Fowle, 244, 245«., 260 
Fowler, 69 
Fox, 370 
Foxc, 2S4H. 
Foxton, 107 
Foxwell, 377 
Franc, 153 
Frank, 215 
Fraser, 83 

Fraunceys, 22, 66, 116 
Freak, 126 
Freeman, 109 
Frenshe, le, 213 
Fresnets or Freney, 

Fressunvill al- Fres- 

kenville, 80 
Freston, 151, 166, 347, 

362 
Fresynfeld or Fres- 

singfield, 38, 41 
Frevile, 365 
Friebern, 282 
Frodo, 341 
Frostenden, 65, 66 
Fryer, 143 
Fulade, 251 
Fulchard, 151; 
Fulcho, 270 
Fulchred, 54, 61, iii, 

194, 196 
Fulco, 341 
Fuller, 161, 334 
Fulyard, 206 
Fylley, 79 
Fynes, 51, 213 
Fyshe, 192 
Fytch, 340 
Gage, 31, 363 
Gallop, 166 
Galtir, 92 
Gangy, 376 
Gant or Gaunt, 29 
Garde, 20 
Gardeman, 284 
Gardener, 318 
Gardiner or Gardyner, 

44, 76, 127, 228, 339, 

Gardner, 19, 60 
Garenger, 255, 265, 
280, 282, 288, 316, 

351, il'^ 
Garman, 303 

Garneis, 239 



Garneys, 158, 185, 200, 

324, 325 
Garrard, 357 
Ganaway, 251 
Garrod, 200, 237 
Gascoigne or Gas- 

coyne, 247, 248 
Gawdy, 16, 118, 181 
Geddinge, 239 
Gedeford, 296 
Gelget, 104 
Gemeye, 190 
Genevill, 140 
uent, 128 
Gerard, 58, 116, 296, 

351 
Germund, 299 
Gernegan, 104 
Gerneys, 206 
Gernham, 18, 84 
Gernon, 103 
Gernun, 249, 250 
Gerrard, 108 
Gerveys, 206 
Gery, 371 
Ghiny, 265 
Gibbons, Guybon, or 

Gybons, 57, 58 
Gibson, 259, 286 
Giddinge, 235 
Giffard, 261, 352 
Gifford, 299, 300 
Gilbert, 54, iii, 130, 

174, 222, 351, 365 
Gipps, 147, 240 
Girald, 348 
Girling, 200 
Girold, 369 
Gislebert, 232, 238, 

264, 270, 273, 293, 

299. 304, 349> 3Si> 

372, 380 
Gisnets al. Gisne or 

Gyney, 108 
Gissinge, 93 
Glanville, 4, loi, iii, 

112, i2yn., 288, 311, 

338, 347 
Glemham, 36, 62, 147, 

158, 340 
Gloucester, Title, 94, 

124,153,155,238,273, 

^77, 300, 311, 329 
Glover, 68, 69, 246 
Gode, 55 
Godeford, 296 
Godfrey, 133 
Godman, 299, 375 
Godmanston, 243 
Godmar, 351 
Godric, 38, 232, 238, 

249, 261, 265, 270, 

293, 297, 317, 337, 

350, 379, 381 
Godrich, 380 
Godsalve, 150 
Godwi, 341, 349 
Godwin, 160, 174, 227, 

273, 351, 372 
Godwyn al. Ryx or 

Ryckes, 362 
Goisfrid, 380, 381 



Golding, i66 
Goldynge, 283 
Gooch, 8-10, 43, 44, 

64, 69, 212, 321 
Goodale, 292 
Goodall, 359, 360 
Gooday, 160 
Goode, 222 
Goodhew, 231 
Gooding, 3^3 
Goodrich, 17, 59, 61, 

98, 169, 174, 223, 

281, 304, 373 
Goodwin, 33, 161, 370, 

373 
Goodwyn, 82, 244, 269, 

283 
Goodyng, 370 
Goring, 356 
Gosbeck, 302 
Gosbert, 241, 372, 373 
Gosebak, 302 
Gosebeck, 302, 303 
Gosnold, 284, 284»., 

366 
Gournay, 159 
Gowers, 120 
Gra, 14, 203, 206, 219, 

222, 315 
Gramond, 25 
Grandison, Vise, 95, 

237 
Grange, 144 
Granville, 30 

Gray, 69, 70, 128, 274, 

352 
Graystocke, 376 
Gredley, 376 
Green, 112, 199 
Greene, ii8 
Greilly or Greslei or 

Grelly, 153, 375-377 
Grelle, 262 
Grene, 158, 200 
Grenham, 32 
Gresham, 250-252, 254, 

342, 342«., 344, 345, 

359 
Grestingham, 238 
Grethed, 206 
Grethede, 203 
Greville, 101 n. 
Grey, loi, 113, 191, 

215, 250, 355 
Grey, Lord, 141, 

i4i«., 142 
Greystock, 376 
Griffin, 26 
Griffith, 300 
Grim, 122, 341, 343 
Grimsey, 147 
Grimston, 294, 295 
Grimstone, 196 
Grimwolf, 306 
Grove, ^lyn. 
Groveherst, 215 
Growse, 286 
Grudgefield, 150 
Gryce or Grys, 36, 

51, 217 
Grygges, 66, 206 
Grymmes, 85 



Grymmeston, i24«. 
Grys, Le, 178 
Guader, 29, 145, 232 
Guer, 344 
Guido, 256 
Guincamp, Countess 

of, 145 
Gulaffra, 241 
Gunequata, 373 
Gunner, 71, 78 
Gurney, 206 
Gurth, 225, 227,. 368 
Gutter, 352 
Guybon, 56 
Guybord, 58 
Guys, Le, 177 
Gwelf, 375 
Hacoun, 338 
Hacun, 271 
Haddington, E. of, 

240 
Hagard or Hugins, 136 
Hailesdon, 205 
Hainault, Earl of, 48 
Hakluyt, 285, 286 
Haldein, 368 
Halden, 86, 163, 167, 

209 
Hale, 371 
Hales, 27 
Halesworth, 72 
Hall, 17, 40, 52, 109, 

166, 179 
Hall or Holt, 334 
Halle, 289 
Halliday, 88, 311 
Hamenhale, 353 
Hamilton, 312, 356 
Hammond, 306, 347, 

373 
Hamon, 32 
Hamond, sss 
Hanchett, 94 
Hankinson, 79 
Hanrill, 97 
Hansard, 82, 228 
Harbotell, 294 
Harbottle, 196 
Hardacre, 361 
Hardechin, 380 
Harding, 42 
Hardwin, 246, 261, 

280, 288 
Hardy, 79 
Hare, 82, 143, 149, 

177, 29J, 334 
Harewell, 369 
Harlestone, 85 
Harneis, 235 
Harnhulle, 21, 22 
Harold, 61, 92, 135, 

153, 249, 264, 280, 

320, 348, 372, 375 
Harreys, i8i 
Harrington, 333 
Harris, 192 
Hart, 196 
Hartismere, Baron, 

300 
Hartley, 18 
Hartopp, 207 
Harvey, 4, 114, 287 



XVI. 



INDEX NOMINUM. 



Harvy, 234 
Harwood, 295, 296 
Hasting, 238 
Hastings, 7, 49, 67, 

93, loi, 124, 139, 

140, 142, 143, 192 
Hatfielde, 359 
Halton, 366 
Haultrey, 275M. 
Havers, 303 
Hawes, 230, 231, 347 
Hawtayn, 107 
Hawtrey, 15 
Hawys, 231 
Haya, 100, loi 
Haylesden, 203 
Hayward, 9, 253, 360 
Haywood, 364 
Hedersete, 22 
Hegelwald, 1 1 
Heigham al. Heyham, 

62, 233, 235, 294, 

296 
Heldere, 374 
Helias, E. of Mayne, 

80 
Helweton, 2i''-3 
Hemenhale, 343 
Hemington, 198 
Heneage, 3 1 1 
Hened, 294 
Heninge or Honynge, 

58 
Henley, Lord, 207 
Henlock, 207 
Henniker, 300 
Henrietta Maria, Q., 

76 
Henrison, 79 
Herbert, 142 
Herebold, i6g 
Hereford, Title, 132, 

145. 3,73, 
Herewold, 123 
Heriz, 5 
Herneys, 294 
Heron, 96, 126, 170, 

171, 181, 321 
Hertford, E. of, 299, 

300, 338 
Hertford and Clare, 47 
Hertford, Essex, and 

Northampton, E. of, 

188 
Hervey, 14, 232, 234, 

235) 3^3, 368 

Hetherst, 352 

Heveningham, 14, 18, 
40, 62, 84, 92-95, 97, 
126, 151, 152, 159, 
170, 181, igo, 222, 

357, 358 
Hevenyngham, 277 
Heydon, 25, 67, 85, 

104 
Heyham. See Heigham 
Hibberd, 324 
Hill, 17s, 278 
Hinchinbrook, Lord, 

114 
Hirst, 10 
Hobart, 19, 252, 254 



Hobbeson, 270, 337 
Hobbson, 346 
Hobrigg, loi 
Hodeleston, 24 
Hodges, 366 
Hody, 215 
Holand, 142 
Holbeach, 191 
Holbeck, 144 
Holbroke, 204 
Holdich, 314 
Holdyche, 133 
Holgrave, 257 
Holland, 28, 51, 69, 

763 io7> ^3i, 146, 

278 
Holland, E. of, 356 
Holle, 68 

Holloway, 207, 208 
Holme, 354 
Holmes, 360 
Home, Countess of, 

i77 
Honing, 125 
Honynge, 56 
Hoo, 6, 25, 84, 159, 

Hopton, 14-17, 43, 52, 
63, 67, 82, 85, 195, 
198, 201, 203, 206, 
207, 219-223, 277«., 

278, 315. 325, 333 

Hoptun, 128, 167, 170, 
185, 187, 191 

Horold, 233, 313 

Horswald, 293 

Hosdenc, 299 

Hosdene, 337, 339 

Hosderc, 270 

Hoskins, 57 

Hosmund, 55 

Hotham, 126, 162 

Hotot, 181, 307 

Houel, 41 

Houre, 67 

Houtot, 252 

Hovell, 2,7 

Howard, 25, 30, 31, 
so, 51, 62, 67, J2, 
81, 85, 121, 133, 150, 
182-184, 189, 199, 
207, 239, 240, 258, 
290, 291M., 353, 354, 

357. 359 
Howel, ap, i 

Howland, 8, 64, 274 

Hewlett, 135 

Howman, 150, 151, 

151M. 
Hoxne, 107 
Hubbert, 252 
Hubert, 143, 161 
Hudson, 339 
Hugh, 341 
Hugh, Earl, 71, 72, 

104, 122, 174, 306, 

380 
Huison, 243 
Humfrey, 281, 306, 

368, 379, 381 
Humfrid, 288 



Humphrey, 232, 297, 

3^7, 35' 

Hungerford, 31, 67 

Hunsdon, Baron, 105, 
106 

Hunt, ii5«. 

Hunte, 203 

Huntingdon, E. of, 
103, 140, 143, 145 

Huntingfield, 1, 4, 38, 
39. 52, 96, 100-104, 
106, no, 115, 117, 
118, 152, 164, 168, 
173, 179. 181, 195- 
198 

Huntingtower, 311 

Hurth, 208 

Hussey, 142, 200 

Hutchinson, 321 

Hutton, 79 

Hyde, 79 

Hynkele, 277 

Ickynghoo, 244 

Ilketshall, 181 

lUegard, 84 

Illeigh, i09«. 

Illeye, 345 

Ingham, i6z, 162, 200 

Inglesthorpe, 267 

Ingleys, 109 

Inglose or Inglos, 34, 

85. 190 
Ingold, 193 
Insula, 73 
Iric, 232, 317 
Irland, 22 
Irmingland, 19 
Isaac, 316, 317, 320, 

337> 346 
Isle, De L', 330«. 
Itchingham, 233^- 
Ive, 361 
Jackson, 360 
Jacob, 5 
Jacobs, 260 
James, 365 
Jaune, 282, 285 
Jenney 28, 32, 108- 

110, 127, i27«., 129, 

158. 161, 176, 199, 

200, 339 
Jenny, 246 
Jenor, 125, 366 
Jenour, 36 
Jentylman, 44 
Jeringham, 113 
Jermingham, 362 
Jermy, 133, 286, 287, 

289, 302, 303, 339, 

354 
Jermye, 302 
Jermyn, 28, 91, 177, 

206, 235, 291, 29m., 

309 
Jernegan, 160, 175, 

285, 29i«., 362 
Jernegane, 362 
Jernigan, 109 
Jernyngham, 363 
Jesmond, 370 
Jesoup, 147 
Jesup, 114 



Joan, 313 

Joane, 170 

Joce, 175, 307 

John, 170 

Jones, 79, 107, 171, 

334 
Josebok, 282 
Joyce or Joce, 307, 

308, 312 
Juan (Don), 177 
Juichel, 348, 350 
Jurdis or Jurdey, 135, 

136 
Kalthorp, 313 
Keane, 207 
Keble, 144, 362 
Keck, 343 
Kemball, 312 
Kemp or Kempe, 15, 

53. 152, 170-173. 

234, 274, 276, 313 
Kenrich, 122 
Kenrick, 297 
Kent, E. of, 142, 153, 

186, 190, 225, 300 
Kerdeston, 5, 28-31, 

75, 80-82, 84 
Kerdiston, 153, 160 
Kering, 249 
Kerridge, 171 
Ketel, 174 
Kett, 89 

King, 172, 295, 312 
Kingston, E. of, 312 
Knapp, 196, 253, 254 
Knayton, 206 
Knevet, Knivett, or 

Knyvett, 57, 60, 67, 

83. 187, 189, 191, 

338 
Knightley, 1 1 5 
Knowlys, 253 
Kynevelmorshe, 287 
Kytchen, 112 
Lacroix, 40 
Lacy, 300 
Lamb, 259 
Lambe, 243 
Lambert, 166 
Lampet, 302 
Lancaster, Duke, 102, 

141 
Lancaster, Earl of, 50 
Lane, 125 
Langabein, 160 
Langley, 124, 167 
Lanvalay, 1 53 
Larcher, 347 
Larnagot, 249 
Latimer, 102 
Latton, 314 
Lauderdale, D. of, 

3" 
Launcinton, 266 
Laurence, 187 
Lawson, 244, 269, 282, 

360 
Lay, 197 
Layer, 9, 161 
Layston, 108 
Lea, 286 
Leake, 377 



INDEX NOMINUM. 



xvu. 



Led, 286 

Ledman, 33 

Lee, 20, 1:5, 243, 260, 

287, 366 
Leeds, Duke of, 166 
Leeke, 107 
Lees, 245n. 
Leeston, iio«. 
Lefchild, 299, 337, 339 
Lefebure, 343 
Lefric, 122 
Lefson, 346 
Lefston, 370 
Leicester, E. of, i, 

145, 198, 2i6, 217, 

258 
Leiston, 32, 115, 116 
Leiston, Ab. of, 155, 

168 
Leland, 182 
Leman, 26, 27, 297, 

298 
Len, 371 
Lene, 154 
Lenebfand, 107 
Leofchild, 346 
Leofsi, 130, 13s 
Leofwin, 380 
Leonard, 7 
Lescrop, 141M. 
Lestan, 262 
Leston, 255 
Lestraunge, 31, 150 
Leuold, 227 
Leured, 306 
Leuric, 3^, 122, 270, 

281, 293, 316, 341, 

351, 375) 379 
Leuveyse, or le 

Euueyse, 283- 
Levesham, 50, 52 
Leveson, 365 
Levestan, 304 
Levett, 35, 151 
Leveva, 281, ^y^ 
Levinton, 374 
Lewgar, 260 
Lewin, 33, 35, 227, 

264, 317. 341, 342, 

349, 373. 37^, 379 
Lewis, 311 
Lewric, 349, ^yj 
Leyburne, 139 
Lichfield and Coven- 

try,Bp.of,20,24, 243 
Lifthy, 283 
Lincoln, Bp. of, 14, 

IS5 
Lincoln, E. of, 142, 

290, 300 
Ling, 55, i26«., 364 
Linham, 107 
Lisle, 356 
Listeva, 232, 381 
Littel, 22 
Little, 244, 245 
Litton, 22, 257, 269 
Littyll, 244 
Livermere, 136 
Lloyd, 340 
Lockhart, 135 
Lockwood, 272 



Lodge, 231, 262, 334 
LoflEts, 355 
Loges, 71 
Lohton, 79 
Loksmyth, 67 
London, Bp. of, 9, 278 
Lone, 9, 192 
Long, 60 
Longchamp, 375 
Loosen, 284«. 
Loraine, 266. 268 
Lorraine, 47 
Losinga, 270 
Loterell, 329 
Loudham, 39, 132 
Loussay, 35 
Louth, 307 

Luneday. SeeLoveday 
36, 37, 119, 271, 272, 

337, 338, 347, 37(> 
Lovelace, 165, 185, 336 
Lovell, 354 
Lovetot, 266, 352 
Lucas, 265, 339, 356 
Lucy, 46, 177 
Ludham, 38 
Luke, 344 

Luneday v. Loveday 
Lupus, 72 
Lustwin, 241, 341 
Luther, 275 
Lyhert, 251, 252 
Lylles, 154 
Lymbergh, 290, 325 
Lymworth, 195, 198 
Lynch, 134 
Lyndlay, 313 
Lynford, 220 
Lynsted, 107 
Lysores, 215 
Lyttle, 244, 269, 360 
Lytton, 177, 244, 245, 

283, 360 
Lyttyll, 269, 360 
Lyvell, 260 
McAulay, 53 
Machyn, 332«. 
Mackenzie, 234 
Madingthorpe, 34 
Magnaville, 42, 163, 

167, 368 
Maidstone, 231 
Maidwell (?), 166 
Main, Earl of, 182 
Maitland, 311 
Major, 300, 359 
Malby, 357, 358 
Malet, 4, II, 12, 33, 

34, 54, 55, 57-59, 61, 

71, 92, 98, 100, 106, 

108, III, 117, 122, 

123, 134, 135, 136, 

148, 149, 161, 163, 

168, i5g, 174, 180, 
182, 194, 196, 197, 
222, 241, 246, 282, 
288, 289, 293, 304, 
316, 349-352, 368, 

378 
Mallett, y^ 
Mallowes, 52 
Maltravers, 74, 74«. 



Mamock, 325 
Manby, 147 
Manchester, E. of, 

178, 355 
Mandeville, 153, 300 
Manfeld, 192 
Mann, 172 
Manners, 311, 355 
Manney, 358 
Manning, 28, 66, 120, 

2i8, 220, 370 
Manningswart, 161 
Mannock, 98, 118 
Manny, 21, 29, 49, 132, 

140 
Mansner, 167 
Mansion, 255 
Mansun, 169 
Mantell, 7 
Manvers, 5 
Manwood, 7, 43, 165, 

211 
Manyng, 67 
Maplesden, 321 
March, Earl of, 50, 97, 

141 
Mareschal, 9, 41, 49, 

80, loi, 131, 139 
Marryot, 109 
Marshal, Earl, 359 
Marshall, 247, 300 
Marshe, 376 
Martin, 126, 127, 319, 

374 
Martyr, 286 
Mary, Q. of Scots, 146, 

333 
Mason, 34, 362 
Matthew, 125 
Mautravers, 205, 206 
Maximilian, Emp., 142, 

215 
Mayhew, no 
Maynard, 135', 148 
Mead, 275«. 
Meade, 53 
Meadow, 287 
Meadows, 126, 212, 

322 
Mekylfeld, 323, 324 
Mellent, Earl of, 145 
Melles, 184 
Mells, 120 
Meredith, 262, 328 
Merkeshall, 34 
Merry, 172 
Mevy, 53 
Micklefield or Mickle- 

ford or Mykelfeld, 

18-20, 84, 85 
Middleton, 79, 244, 

245, 260, 265, 279, 

283, 287, 289, 295, 

298, 303, 357, 358, 

363 
Midiltone, 314 
Mikyefeld, 323 
Mildmay, 88, 129,220 
Mill, 275«., 336 
Miller, 4, 9, 113, 114, 

260 
Milner, 262 



Milner-Gibson, 263 
Mile, 281, 302, 352 
Mirehause, 150 
Mirehouse, 151 
Molyns, 214 
Monday, 26 
Moned, 107 
Monmouth, D. of, 335, 

335'^-, 336 
Montacute, 49, i03( 

131, 359 
Montagu, 7, 114, 192, 

196, 33h 332, 355 
Montbouchier, 5 
Monte Caniso, 282 
Montford, De, 160 
Montfort, 249, 297, 

368, 380 
Montgomery, 354 
Montgomery, E. of, 

147, i86m. 
Moor, 235, 275«. 
Moore, 334, 335, 360 
Mordaunt, 95 
More, 66, 96, 274, 307, 

37^ 
Moretagne, E. of, 306 
Moretaign, E. of, 288, 

341, 342 
Moreton, i86«. 
Morgan, 284, 322, 357 
Morley, 93, 124, 125, 

193 
Morrison, 356 
Mors, 127 
Morsse, 212 
Mortaigne, E. of, 290 
Mortimer, 50, 140, 141, 

155, 238 
Morton, 207 
Mortuo Mari, 97 
Moulton, io4«. 
Moseley, 287 
Mote, 343, 375, 376 
Mott, 301 
Mountenay, 366 
Mountford, 74K. 
Mountgomery, 206 
Mountjoy, Lord, 7, 258 
Mowbray, 49, 50, 132, 

133, 142, 214, 215, 

299, 33h 359 
Mowse, 362 
Moynes, 44 
Mufifet, 112 
Multon, 47 
Munchensy, 17, 138, 

139 
Mundckyn, 366 
Munding, 255 
Munulf, 122 
Muriel, 221 
Murray, 310 
Muryel, 221 
Musgrave, 83 
Mutford 66 
Myers 377 
Mylls, 219 
Mylnere, 374 
Napier, 77 
Nardred, 297 
Nassau, 340 



XVI 11. 



INDEX NOMINUM. 



Naunton, 75, 147, 216 
Neale, 336 
Needham, 246, 248, 

Nelson, Lord, 311 
Nemle, 121 
Nereford, 327, 352 
Nerford, 2j, 74, 98, 99, 

102, 146, 203-206 
Nerpont, 294 
Nettlestead, 336 
Neve, 23, 28, 60, 204, 

218 
Nevil, 13 
Nevile, 258 
Nevill, 4, 7, 50, 114, 

124, 157, 164, 205, 

331. 352 
Neville, 252, 332 
Newark, Viscount, 5 
Newcastle, D. of, 355 
Newton, 355 
Nicholas, 126, 181, 380 
Nicholas, Pope, 57 
Nightingale, 247, 248 
Nix, 252 
Noel, 333«. 
Noers, 24, 42, 227, 264 
Norfolk, Title, 7, 40, 

43, 46, 49-5 1) 56, 59. 
60, 62, 98, 117, 119, 

i32j 133, 136, 141, 

145, 146, 149, 150, 
156, 175, i^n., 185, 

189, 196, 203, 204, 

207, 215, 218, 229, 

230, 232, 298, 302, 

312, 3,5^> 332, 339> 

3';2, 354, 358, 359 

Norfolk and Suffolk, 

E. of, 29, 145, 232 

Norman, 42, 79, 123, 

130, 169, 174, 194, 

218, 222, 369, 373, 

374 
Normandy, Duke of, 

i4i«. 
Norris, 6-8, 43, 44, 87, 

165, 167, 211 
North, 8, 43. 146, 274 
Northalis, 63 
Northampton, E. of, 9, 

338, 346 
Northshete, 371 
Northumberland, E. 

of, 142, 145, 2i6, 299 
Northwode, 353 
Norton, 9, 34, 36, 78, 

98, 208, 215 
Norwich, 12, 21, 22, 

30, 38, 102, 103, 120, 

120W., 149, 164, 180, 

184, 202, 220, 302, 

356 
Norwich, Bp. of, 8, 12, 

164, 212, 250-252, 

270, 271, 321 
Norwich, E. of, 298, 

334 
Nottingham, 57 
Notyngham, 206 
Noyoun, 175 



Nunn, 251M. 
Nykke, 252 
Nyners, 124 
Oake, 244, 245 
Oburville, 261, 265, 

293. 299, 320, 321, 

337> 346, 381 
Ochotte, 345 
Odo, Bp. of Bayeux, 

145 
Odulf, 98 
Offa, 337, 373 
Ofiley, 109 
Okeley, 161 
Oldhall, 155 
Oldric, 368 
Oliver-Massey, 89 
Olyver, 365 
Onely, 20 
Orbec, 273 
Ordimer, 374 
Orford, 230, 373 
Ormar, 373 
Orreby or Orbcy, 49, 

50> 52 
Orwell, 262, 303, 325, 

363 
Osbern, 368, 374 
Osbert, 98 
Osborne, 196 
Osfert, 123 
Osgood, 288 
Osketel, 55, 61, 174, 

222 
Otburville or Auber- 

ville, 241, 270, 341, 

344 
Othunville, 270 
Othurvile, 293 
Othurville, 344 
Otley, 15 
Owen, 14, 356 
Owgdale or Dovedale, 

278 
Oxford, E. of, 139, 

147, 2S1M., 258, 354, 

Packard, 127 

Padda, 24 

Paf, 25 

Page, 21, 23, 26, 32, 

125, 132, 159, 185, 

230 
Paget, 259 
Pais, 67 
Pakenham, 307 
Palmer, 19, 376 
Pannes, 187 
Panton, 28 
Paris, 131 
Parker, 118, 165, 167, 

186, 187, 190, 191, 

192, 340 
Parkes, 151 
Parkhurst, 220 
Parkyns, 35, 36, 2,7^ 4" 
Parry, 364 
Parry-Crooke, 197 
Partridge, 67 
Paston, 95, 105M., 118, 

165, 278 
Patten, 9 



Patteson, 196 
Paulet, 258 
Paulett, 309 
Pavilli or Pavilly, 34, 

62 
Payn, 28 
Payne, 25, 43, 75, 233, 

234 
Peacock, 262 
Peche, 271 
Peck, 286 
Peek, 13s, 147 
Pelham, 7, 355 
Pembroke, E. of, 139, 

140, 142, 147, 200, 

211, 225, 300 
Penning, 5.6, 286 
Peppys, 125 
Percy, 50-52, 142, 216, 

240, 353 
Peresson, 107 
Perham, 329 
Perpoint, 213 
Perpunt, 211 
Peryent or Perient, 91, 

91M. 
Petit, 203 
Petroponte, 209 
Pettagh, 28 
Pettaughe, 366 
Petteur, 317 
Pettour or Farcere, 

317 
Pettus al. Pettres, 34- 

36, 40, 185 
Peverell, 270, 281, 323, 

351 
Peyton, 4, 109, 149 
Peytor, 24 
Phelyp, 18, 28, 58, 62, 

84 
Philepot, y^j 7A"- 
Philippa, Queen, 225 
Philipps, 267 
Philipson, 334 
Phillipps, ii'in., 243 
Phillips, 172 
Phin, 232, 238, 273, 

3i6> 381 
Phipps, 79 
Piere, 50 
Pierpoint, 211 
Pierrepoint, 211 
Pierrepont or Pierpont 

or Petro Ponte, 5, 6, 

10, 42, 44, 86, 87, 

163, 164, 211 
Pigot, 25 IK. 
Pike, 151 

Pilkington, 315, 366 
Pincerna, 47, 232 
Pinnell, 172 
Piperell, 317 
Piperelli, 281, 304, 378 
Pipperell, 349, 350 
Pirho or Pirhon, 92, 

313 
Pirie, 327, 328 
Pirnho, 127, 128, 218, 

219 
Pishall, 66 



Plair, 121 
Plantagenet, 49, 50, 

124, 140, 141, 145, 

155, 188, 312 
Player, 78 
Playford, 237 
Playters, 8, 25, 26, 28, 

176-179, 229, 282 
Plaze or Plazs, 184, 

184K. 
Plestow, 370 
Plowers, 27 
Plumer, 35, 36, 40, -jj, 

78 

Plummer, 231 

Plumstead, io9». 

Poictou, 227, 241, 262 
265, 277, 281, 306, 
316, 317, 320, 321, 
348, 351, 352, 357, 
368, 372-375, 378, 
380 

Pole, De La, 4, 16, 25, 
30, 31, 39,44, 67, 81, 
82, 103, 104, 126, 
181, 192, 290 

Foley, 235, 238-240 

Ponynges, 215 

Ponyngg, 213 

Pope, 63, 167, 185, 
187, 286, 287, 289, 

333'«- 
Porter, 66, 67, 109, 319 
Portsmouth, E. of, 95 
Pouchard, 204 
Powys, 8 

Poynings, 211, 213-217 
Poyntz, 114 
Poynynges, 211 
Prendergast, 166 
Prescott, 10, 312 
Preston, 44, 296 
Pretyman, 27, 172, 335 
Price, 15 
Prim, 20 
Pruslowe, 97 
Prydeton, 282 
Pulham, 324 
Purchas, 286 
Purpett, 34 
Purvis, 15 1«. 
Puttock, 116 
Pyerrie, 327 
Pyke, 67 

Pykenham, 63, 206 
Pynchbeke, 354 
Quaplode, 22 
Rabboda, 379 
Rabett, 15, 189 
Rabston, 207 
Rada, 153 
Radcliff, 217 
Radulf, 190, 266 
Raikes, 253 
Rainald, 42, 209, 211, 

213, 316 
Raleigh, 142 
Ralph, 169, 174, 202, 

203, 270, 271, 365, 

368 



INDEX NOMINUM. 



XIX • 



Ralph, Earl, 6i, 232, 
238, 261, 265, 280, 
297) 337> 346, 35o> 
372> 379 

Raims, 227 

Ramey, 377 

Randeken, 85 

Rant, 36 

Ranulf, 65, 122, 130, 

273 
Rany, 259 
Ratcliflfe, 51, 216 
Raven, 51 
Rawlinson, 185 
Read, 176, 177, 179, 

359 
Reade, 283, 359 

Reams, 227 
Rede, 109 
Redenhall, 136, 137 
Redesham or Redis- 

ham, 93, 160, 170 
Redhed, 99, 205 
Reed, 262 
Reede, 313 
Reeve, 200, 347 
Rendlesham, 312 
Repez, 133 
Repps, 170 
Resedene, 164 
Reve, 199 
Revet or Revett, 162, 

361 
Reydon, 366 
Reymes, 265 
Reynal, iion. 
Reynburgh, 314 
Reyner, 376 
Reynor, 236 
Rheims, 227, 232, 265, 

273: 281, 293, 302, 

306, 316, 350-352, 

358, 365, 368, 369, 

378, 381 
Richard, 32, 238, 264, 

273) 299, 304, 349, 

35i> 372, 380 
Richardson, 242 
Richer, 54 
Richmond, E. of, 145, 

146, 157, 203, 204, 

215. 327, 338 
Rickingale, 283 
Rictan, 373 
Ridsdale, 36 
Riedon, 138 
Rigge, 253 
Rimes, 115 
Ringeshall, 344 
Ripariis, 344 
Risbye, 294 
Rivers, E. of, 142, 191, 

287, 338, 363 
Rivett, i26n., 259, 274, 

359 
Rix, i87«., 188 
Roberd, 302 
Roberds or Roberts, 

63, 64, 187, 206, 207 
Robert, 170, 264 
Robert, Earl, 122 
Robertes, 221 



Robinson, 20 
Robsart, 31, 81, 82 
Robsert, 230 
Rochester, Bp. of, 266 
Rochford, 191 
Roger, 170, 320, 323, 

379) 380 
Rokele, 344, 345 
Rokewode, 335 
Rokewood, 324 
Rokkyngge, 313 
Rokys, 300 
Rolf, 277, 372 
Rollo orFulbert, 14111. 
Roodwoode, 239 
Rookewoode, 91 
Roos, 52, 99, 142, 157, 

205, 206, 301, 328, 

33°) 355) 358 

Roper, 275;;. 

Ros, 99, 265«., 267 

Roscelys, 41 

Rose, 181, 243 

Roseter, 93 

Ross, 27 

Rosse, 157 

Rothenhall, 89 

Rothing, 17, 18, 21 

Rothwell, 5o 

Roundell, 309W. 

Rounsey, 166 

Rous, 23, 28, 31, 57, 
60, 82, 82M., 83, 85, 
125, 126, 136, J43, 
144, 149, 154, 156, 
166, 179, 185, 190, 
228, 230, 259 

Rouse, 196 

Rowe, 342 

Rowley, 319 

Rowtred, 116 

Royng, 181 

Royston, Prior of, 243 

Royton, Prior of, 283 

Rudge, 28, 275«. 

Rudgessale, 343 

Rufus, 230 

Rupus, 277 

Rus, 228, 230, 277, 318 

Rush, 96 

Rushe, 268 

Russe, 199 

Russhe, 314 

Russell, 64, 77 

Ruthyn, 215 

Rutland, Earl of, 355 

Rutton, 332 

Rye, 13 

Ryece, gm., 284 
Ryecroft, 260 
Ry shale, 104 
Rysing, 195 
Ryvell, 67 
Ryvett, 248, 339 
Ryx or Ryches. See 

Godwyn 
Sacho, 317 
Sachs, 227, 281, 349, 

350, 378 
Sackville, 149 
Sackvyle, 301 
St. Albans, E. of, 19 



St. Algnon, Count of, 

258 
St Asaph, Vise, 240 
St. Augustine, 249 
St. B'tin, 153 
St. Denis, 89 
St. Edmunds, Abbot 

of) 89, 323, 341, 348, 

35°) 378 
St. Etheldreda, 232, 

277) 281, 378, 379 
St. George, 75 
St. Hillary, 300 
St. John, 141 
St. Liz, 46, loi 
St. Lo, Bp. of, 297 
St. Osyth, Abbot of, 

15, 16 
St. Valery, 288, 378 
Sakevyle, 7, 40, 165, 

213 
Salisbury, Bp. of, 39, 

104, 151 
Salmon, 362 
Salter, 251, 25 1«. 
Sambourne, 258 
Sampson, 109, 167, 

185, 201, 277«., 323 
Samuels, 25 iw. 
Sancroft, Abp., 68 
Sandbach, 267 
Sandwich, E. of, 244 
Saumarez, 245, 260, 

279, 283, 287, 289, 

295, 298, 303, 325, 

357, 358, 363 
Savage, 353 
Savell, 14 

Savigni, 317, 323, 379 
Savil, 94 
Savile, 220 
Savoy, 204, 328 
Saxlef, 373 
Saxmundham, 124M. 
Saxo, 304 
Say, 81, 331, 354 
Sayer, 135 
Sayville, 63 
Scales, 329, 353 
Scarlet, 116 
Schreiber, 371 
Scoies, 38, 41, 261, 

317. 372) 379 
Scot, 31, 216 
Scott, le, 181, 197 
Scrivener, 135, 150, 

150M., 151, 151W., 

285, 287, 295 
Scrope, 103, 267, 329- 

331 
Scryvener, 285, 358 
Seafield, 24 
Seaman, 279 
Seckford, 239, 268, 

373 
Segar, 258 
Segrave, 21, 49, 131, 

132, 358 
Sekford, 321 
Sender, 136 
Sengylton, 363 
Senliz, 45 



Sentley, 100 
Senyele, 66 
Sewarde, 20 
Seymcle, 67 
Shafto, 53 
Shardelowe, 28, 34, 

62, 63, 84 
Sharington or Sharen- 

ton, 187, 242 
Sharpie, 220 
Shawe, 283 
Sheffield, 258 
Shelton, 44, 94, 152, 

228 
Sheriffe, 89 
Sherington, 243 
Sherlock, 9 
Shipbroke, E. of, 262, 

363 
Shipdam, 78 
Shirley, 275^. 
Shortrudge, 79 
Shottesham, 116 
Shrewsbury, E. of, 50, 

iS6n., 216 
Shrubeland, 243, 244 
Sibton, Ab. of, 40, 136, 

149, 196 
Sidney, 188 
Sidnor, 109, 179 
Sigar, 373 
Singleton, 323 
Sinrund, 66 
Siric, 281, 337, 378 
Siward, 249 
Skargyll, 63 
Skeet, 236 
Skelton, 50, 52 
Skencard, 79 
Skott, 113 
Smalwood, 107 
Smith, 26, 40, 43, 52, 

64, 83, 104, 104W., 

105, 114, i5o«., 152, 

207, 231, 243, 25IW., 

347, 359, 360, 362 
Smokeshylle, 18 
Smyth, 221, 243, 314, 

335'«-, 347 
S my the, 212 
Snell, 200, 322, 336 
Snelling, 212 
Snowhill or Southill, 

14 
Soame, 171, 359 
Soane, 171, 200 
Solers, 100 
Somerset, 143, 332 
Sonteye, 165 
Soone, 196 
Sorrell, 321 
Sortelee or Sorterlee, 

154, 175) i75«-) 176 
Sotterley, 179 
Southa)mpton, D. of, 

19, 20, 259 
Southampton, E. of, 

19) 376 
Southwell, 44, 126, 

242, 243, 278 
Spake, 282 
Sparke, 377 



XX. 



INDEX NOMINUM. 



Sparkes, 360 
Sparrow 89, i66j 185, 

347 
Spectishall, 18 
Spencer, 39, 105, 165, 

282, 283, 340, 353 
Spere, 221 
Sperun, 349 
Spiruic, 249, 281, 378 
Spring or Spryng, 19, 

^11, 376 
Spryngham, 23 
Spurdance, 284«. 
Spurdans, 294 
Spurdens, 334 
StafFord, io4) 157, i8g, 

215. zi^, 346 

Stamford, 235 
Stanard, 109 
Stanford, 234 
Stanham, 79, 99 
Stanhart, 33 
Stanhope, 19, ■]■], 248, 

310 
Stanley, 216, 332«. 
Stanton, 36, 79 
Stanwin, 54, 92, 130, 

135- 222, 320, 368 
Stapleton, 44 
Starkie, 166 
Staunton, 9, 134, 135 
Staverton, 307 
Sterisacre, 298 
Sterlyng, 296 
Stewarde, 303 
Stewart, 312 
Stigand, 24, 42, 149, 

227, 264, 265, 337, 

365. 2,1Z 
Still, 91, 9i«. 
Stisted, 367 
Stoddard, 339 
Stonesley, 275«. 
Stonham, 357 
Stonor, 332 
Stonore, 343 
Stookes, 324 
Stotevile, 235, 294, 

296 
Stradbroke, 10, 23, 31, 

57, 58, 82M.-85, 143, 

144, 154, 160, 179, 

183, 190, 212 
Strafford, E. of, 114 
Strahan, 319 
Strange, 103 
Strangman, 294 
Stratford, 311 
Stratton, 256 
Straunge, 85 
Stray, 23 
Streech, 369 
Streinsham, 284 
Strelley, 39, 158 
Strode, 53 
Struges, 314 
Strutt, 275W., 322 
Stuart, 335 w. 
Stuart or Styward, 287 
Stubbe, 107 
Stubbing, 347 
Sturgis, 79 



Sturmyn, 321 

Style, 236, 274, 287, 

303, 319 

Styles, 303 

Suarthogh, 161 

Suartling, 222 

Suffield, 60 

Suffolk, Title, 4, 51, 
104, 164, 168, 180, 
181, 202, 290, 291, 

Z^i, 33I) 355> 359 
Suffragan, 283 
Sufreint, 55, 222 
Suliard, i^bn. 
Sulyard, 34, 152, 192 

256, 267, 268, 312, 

314, 324 

Sumpter, 1 1 5 

Sunwin, 227 

Surrey, E. of, 73, 150, 
309M., 331 

Sussex, E. of, 47, 51, 
52, 216, 258 

Suthwek, 85 

Sutton, 7, 143 

Swain, 227 

Swan, 177 

Swarting, 123 

Swayne, 79 

Swillington, 13, 14, 58, 
loi, 103, 127-129, 
157, 165, 170, 185, 
187, 195, 198, 201, 
203, 206, 219, 221, 
222, 315 

Swyllington, 205 

Swylyngton, 203 

Sydney, 128, 159 

Sydnor, 8, 87, 88, 91 

Sylesden, 325 

Tacon, 267 

Talbot, i4i«., 216, 

337, 338, 354 
Talcha, 54, 222 
Talemache, 303 
Tallowes, 91 
Talmach, 303, 314 
Talmache, 233, 236, 

274, ^03 
Talmage, 268, 314 
Talmash, 146, 177W., 

273, 314 
Tanner, 182 
Tasburgh, 63, 191 
Tastard, 132 
Tattershall, 48, 49, 50 
Taylor, 79, 182, 184, 

260, 276 
Teding, 375 
Tedric, 227, 369 
Temple, 244 
Tendring, 30 
Tenger, 180 
Tepekin, 320 
Tere, 73 
Tey, 233, 234 
Teye, 289 
Theberton, n6 
Thennylthorp, 260 
Theobald, 246-248, 322 
Therstone, 22 
Thomas, 267 



Thompson, 96 
Thorald, 198 
Thored, 29 
Thornhill, 15 
Thorp, 23s, 277, 295, 

313, 353 

Thorpe, 235, 307, 353 

Thowars, 327 

Throkmorton, 78, 158 

Thurkettle, ill 

Thurlow, Lord, i"] 

Thurmer, 378 

Thursley, 211 

Thurstin, 227, 369 

Thurtone, 66 

Thynne, 240 

Tibetot or Tiptoft, 13, 
49, 262, 265-268, 
328, 329, 332, 346, 

Tichbourne, 271 
Tilney, 125, 353 
Timperley, 177 
Tinnellmarsh, 284«. 
Tirrell, 177 
Todd, 235W. 
Todeni, 29, 120, 218, 

220 
Toli, 12, 55, 122, 123, 

280 
Tollemache, 77, 235, 

244, 273, 307-312, 

314 
Tomline, 334 
Tonebruge, 299 
Tonebrugh, 299 
Tonestall, 380 
Tonsburgh, Baron of, 

i86m. 
Toothyll, 312, 314 
Torald, 211 
Tored, 45,65, 138, 169 
Toret, 182 
Toulit, 373 
Toune, 190 
Tounesend, 206 
Towne, 186 
Townsend, 126, 159, 

228, 229 
Townshend, 25, 26, 63, 

128, 133, 278, 318, 

Z1^ 
Travis, 347 
Tresham, 155 
TroUesbury, 79 
Trower, 166 
Trumwin, 341 
Tuck, i6o 
Tuddenham, 366, 369, 

370 
Tudenham, 197 
Tudor, 14 
Tunstall, 348 
Turbin, 227 
Turchil, 209 
Turi, 304, 306 
Turketel, 55 
Turner, 107, 188, 221 
Tumour, 362 
Turstan, 24 
Turstin, 256 
Tybetot, 246, 262, 266, 



289, 328, 329, 376 

Tychebourne, 338 

Tyffyn, 117 

Tyllet, 294 

Tylney, 308, 354 

Tymperley, 85, 252 

Tyndale, 39 

Tyrell, 67 

Tyrrell, 278, 331 

Tyrwhit, 69 

Twysden, 27 

Ubbeston, 170 

Ufford, 4-6, 29, 39, 43, 
49, 62, 66, 87, 92, 
103, 112, 164, 165, 
180, 202, 307, 313, 

359 
Uhthoff, 107 
Uiore, de la, 106 
Ulbold, 255 
Ulbolt, 265 

Ulf, 33, 55, 71, 79, 92, 

161, 222 
Ulfkettle or Ulfketel, 

42, 92 
Ulfret, 348 
Ulmar, 98, 168, 255, 

264, 270, 316, 342, 

346, 348, 351, 372, 

378-380 
Ulnod, 130, 288, 290 
Ulric, 255 
Ulsin, 38 
Uluric, 61, 174, 232, 

280, 297, 320, 341, 

346, 348, 349, 369, 

372, zn, 379 
Ulverton, 40, 62, 66, 

84, 85, 192 
Ulveston, 323, 324 
Ulviet, 368 
Ulwart, 261 
Ulwin, 346, 348, 373 
Umfrevill, 259 
Undrewood, 107 
Ungle, 284, 284K. 
Upcher, 79, 377 
Upton, 16 
Urquhart, 234 
Ultyng, 248 
Uvedale, 287 
Valence, 139, 140, 143, 

200, 225, 337 
Valencia, 200, 211, 327 
Vallibus or Vaux, 21, 

29, 33, 38, 40-42, 44, 

59, 7', 78, 98, 146, 

157, 180, 184, 204, 

205 
Valonies, 46, 112, 202, 

313 

Valonis, 307 

Valoynes, 200 

Vanneck, i, 4, 39, 40, 
52, 96, 105, 106, 
115, n8, 119, 134, 

^11^ 198 
Varenne, 348, 380 
Varennes, 42, 86, 122, 

163, 202, 209, 211, 

213, 288 



INDEX NOMINUM. 



XXI. 



Vaux. See Vallibus 
Vavasours, 249, 277, 
282, 289, 317, 369, 

372, 379. 380 
Veere, 248 
Vellenis, 169 
Ventris, 172, 196 
Verdon, 92, 155 
Vere, 10, 74, 80, 93, 

100, 133, 139, 147, 

258, 329 
Verner, 319 
Verney, 40, 77, 125, 

366 
Vernon, 32, 38, no, 

153. 262, 363, 364 
Vernun, De, 182 
Vescy, 4, 95 
Vesey, 300 
Vicars, 26 
Villiers, 95, 237 
Vivon, 204 
Vylett, 40 
Wachesham, 164M., 

^7i, 300. 371 
'\\'ade, 343 
Wailoff, 280 
Wailolf, 380 
Wainfleet, 9 
Wake, 156 
Walby, 67 
Waldegrave, 34, 118, 

258, 298, 300 
Walden, 51 
Waldwin, 337, 372 
Wales, Prince of, 7 
Walingham, 277 
Walker, 178, 336, 357 
Wallen, 314 
Waller, 333 
Wallop, 95 
Walp'ol, 137 
Walpole, 175, 291, 311 
Walsingham, 269 
Walsyngham, 244, 360 
Walter, 58, 170, 227, 

264, 289, 320, 365, 

369. 372 
Walthorp, 145 
Walworth, 235, 294 
Wancey, 232 
Wangeford, 80 
Wangford, Prior of, 67 
Wanton, 329 
Warburton, 77 
Ward, 35, 40, 77 
Ware, De La, 154 
Warenger, 255, 281, 

316, 349. 358 



Warenna, 5 
Warenne and Surrey, 

E. of, 48 
Warennes, 86, 211 
Wareyn, 25 
Warner, 16, 179, 239 
Warnes, 347 
Warr, De La, 7, 143 
Warren, 153, 299 
Warren, E. of, 213 
Warter-Wilson, 83 
Warwick, E. of, 103, 

J46, 339> 365. 366 
Waryn, 40 
Waterhouse, 339 
Watson, 343 
Watts, 23 

Waveney, Lord, 53 
Wayland, 268 
Wayte, 296 
Weare, 260 
Webb, 19, 20, 243 
Weebing, 147 
Weeble, 230 
Weever, 94, 182 
Weld, 26 
Welham, 236, 336 
Weller, 230 
Wells, 107, 175 
Wentworth, 14, 17, 56, 

76, 198,, 239, 262, 

267, 268, 287, 300, 
307-309. 329-333. 
335. 3Z(^, 339. 343. 
347 

Wessyngsete, 66 
West, 93 
Westcote, 128 
Westhall, 25' 
Westhorp, 235, 294, 

296 
Westmoreland, E. of, 

124, 258, 276, 353 
Weston, 164, 164M., 

314 
Wetherby, 199 
Weyland, 108, 123, 

124, i24«., 233, 256, 

268, 321, 352, 363, 

365, 369. 37^ 
Wharton, 151, 200 
Whately, 77, 79 
Whetcroft, 260 
Whetstone, 230 
Whinburgh, 7, 10 
White, 283, 331, 
Whitefeld, 206 
Whittaker, 10, 83 
Whitting, 158 



Whytyng, 181 
Wiche, 257 
Wiching, 349 
Wickens, 304 
Wicolf, 280, 282, 293, 

316 
Widville, 142, 338, 353 
Wigmore, 136 
Wilbraham, 234, 311 
Wilfric, 241 
Wilgrip, 299 
Wilkinson, no, 208, 

212, 234 
Willakesham, 344 
Willasham, 344 
William, 209, 211, 213, 

235«-. 337. 376. 378 
Williams, 4, 10, 87, 

114, 165 
Willoughby, 31, 102, 

108, 155, 199 
Wilmington, Prior of, 

290 
Wilson, 276, 377 
Winchester, Bp. of, 

133 
Winchester, E. of, 

139. 309 

Windam, 208 

Windsor, 244, 256- 
260, 268, 297, 298, 
360, 377 

Wingfield or Wyng- 
feld, 66-69, 82, 85, 
158, 165, 192, 193, 
285, 294, 295, 357, 

358. 371 
Wisgar, 241, 273, 299, 

351. 372, 374, 380 
Wissyngsete, 67 
Wistric, 255, 280 
Withipol, 373 
Withypole, 230 
Wluric, 55 
Wodehous, 296 
Wodehouse, 235, 236, 

294-296 
Woder, ig 
Woderowe, 79 
Wolfe, 322 
Wolferton, 184 
Wollascot, 374 
Wollaston, 343 
A^ollett, 61 
Wolmer, 168 
Wolric, 117 
Wolsey, II, 16, :i2,^ 

146, 373 



Wolverston, 374». 
Wood, 18, 19, 30, 83, 

243, 275«. 
Woodcock, 125, 126, 

200 
Woode, 79, 248 
Woodebrun, 293 
Woodhouse, 235 
Woods, 126, 196, 366 
Woodward, 231 
Woolmer, 379 
Woolnough, 373 
Woolrich, 38, 209 
Wooton, i79«. 
Worcester, Bp. of, 145 
Worcester, E. of, 124, 

P43. 259, 266, 267 
Worth, 214 
Wortham, 265, 328 
Wrangle, 251 
Wright, 200, 285 
Wrighte, 107 
Wryght, 203 
Wychingham, 109,154, 

190 
Wylasham, 345 
Wyllakysham, 344 
Wymples, 163 
Wymplys, 164 
Wymundale, 24 
Wyndesor, 268 
Wyndesore, 256«. 

268, 298 
Wyndesoure, 244 
Wyndham, 104, 152 
Wynfeld, 285 
Wyngefeld, 302 
Wyseman, 239 
Wysette, 18 
Wysey, 230 
Wythe, 294 
Yarmouth al. Ver- 
mouth, 48, 87, 91, 

206 
Yarvill, 93 
Yatingden, 328 
Yawdy, 126 
Yaxley, 198 
Yelverton, 28, 82, 41, 

183 
Yeomans, 246 
Yonge, 155 
York, Abp. of, 51, 145, 

157. 192 
York, Bp. of, 266 
York, D. of, 6, 50, 

155. 239. 331 
Zouch, 124 



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